When is a fund not a fund? Exploring the financial support for levelling up

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ID13041579
AuthorsGraeme Atherton (Centre for Social Justice), Marc Chevallier (Centre for Social Justice, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume18
Issue3-4
Pages527-545
Publication date2023-08-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2158-2041 • E-ISSN: 2158-205X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21582041.2023.2269144
OpenAlexW4387819677
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited11

This paper will examine the different funding streams associated with the levelling up agenda pursued by the Conservative government elected in the United Kingdom in 2019. It will explore in detail a number of funding streams that this government has associated with levelling up to understand their relationship to the levelling up agenda. The article will also analyse the relationship between the levelling up missions and the funding associated with levelling up. The Levelling Up White Paper released in February 2022 included 12 missions that were intended to provide a ‘targeted, measurable and time-bound objective, or set of objectives, from which a programme of change can then be constructed or catalysed’. The analysis of the funding streams outlined in this paper shows that the relationship with the missions is overall a tangential one. The lack of clarity on what is and is not a levelling up fund, coupled with the loose relationship with the levelling up missions may diminish the impact that the levelling up agenda will have on regional inequality in the UK

Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics · Inequality · Levelling · Political science · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Public Administration · Regional Development and Policy · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Finance

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