The 12 Levelling Up Missions Empowering local leaders and communities
Giving every part of England that wants one a devolution deal, with powers at, or approaching, the highest level of devolution and a simplified long-term funding settlement.
	The Act creates a statutory duty for the Government to set missions (through a ‘levelling -up missions statement’). The levelling-up missions statement will be laid before Parliament and published; and will be accompanied by the methodology and metrics the Government intends to use to evaluate its progress towards their delivery. The Act also creates a statutory obligation for the Government to report annually (the ‘annual report’) on progress towards the delivery of each mission in the levelling-up missions statement. These reports are intended to use publicly available data to evaluate progress towards the delivery of missions. The object of this measure is to make sure this and future governments are held to account by Parliament; and that information on progress is transparently available to the public.
	The legal framework in the Act provides the foundation for a broader programme of government work to level up the United Kingdom. To support this, the Government is setting up an external Levelling Up Advisory Council, which will support Ministers by advising on the design, delivery and impact of government policy on the levelling up aims. The programme of further work includes: the creation of 55 Education Investment Areas in England; using the £1.4bn Global Britain Investment Fund to attract more major investments to all parts of the UK, and a £1.5bn Levelling Up Home Building Fund, which will provide loans to SMEs.