Part 1: Levelling-Up Missions Setting missions Section 1: Statement of levelling-up missions Effect
Section 1 establishes the concept of levelling-up missions, provides relevant definitions, and defines the ‘statement of levelling-up missions’.
	Subsections (1) to (2) establish the concept and obligation for a Minister of the Crown to prepare a statement of levelling-up missions. Subsection (2) specifies that the statement must set out the Government’s objectives to reduce geographical inequalities and how the Government proposes to measure progress ("the "mission progress methodology and metrics"").
	Subsection (3)(a) specifies that in the course of preparing a statement of levelling-up missions, the Minister of the Crown must have regard to the importance of the levelling-up missions in the statement addressing both economic and social disparities. Subsection (3)(b) specifies that in the course of preparing a statement of levelling-up missions, the Minister of the Crown must have regard to the needs of rural areas.
	Subsections (4) to (6) define the period and target date of a mission.
	Subsection (7) establishes that the first statement must be laid before each House of Parliament within a month of the section coming into force.
	Subsection (8) establishes that levelling-up missions come into effect when the statement has been laid before each House of Parliament and is published, and when the missions period in the new statement begins.
	Subsection (9) provides that there can be no period of interruption during which there is no statement of levelling-up missions in effect.
	Subsection (10) provides for when a new statement of levelling-up missions must come into effect.
	Subsection (11) provides that subsequent statements of levelling-up missions will replace earlier such statements.
	Subsection (12) clarifies the status of the currently in effect statement of levelling-up missions.