What urban leaders want from the Levelling Up White Paper
A collection of views from urban leaders across the country in advance of the Levelling Up White Paper.
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City Talks: Think Tank views – what should be in the Levelling Up White Paper?Andrew Carter speaks to policy experts Will Tanner, Carys Roberts and Nick Bowes, to get their views on what should be included in the upcoming Levelling Up White Paper.
Will increasing the National Living Wage help level up the country?
While an increase in the National Living Wage would help people in economically weaker places, it will not address the structural problems they face which cause low wages in the first place
Levelling up requires cities to build new strengths, not build on their existing strengths
Economically struggling places need to look more critically at what they don’t have – not what they do have.
September 2021: What do the statistics tell us about the labour market before the end of the furlough scheme?
Despite recent labour market improvements, aviation-reliant towns and some of the largest cities are in a fragile position
The re-emergence of large British cities is not the result of pro-city policy bias – but the Government should embrace it to level up
To level up the country, the Government should encourage the increasingly complex, high-skilled, high-paying sectors that are choosing to locate in big cities.
Levelling up now has a department – but it still needs a plan
Changing a department's name is one thing, but the public remains skeptical of the levelling up agenda and want to see action.
What does the public think about levelling up?
The public know what it will take to level up their area, but most aren’t confident that the Government will achieve it.
What levelling up really means: changing the geography of knowledge
This briefing uses the theory of economic complexity to show how the economies of Britain’s cities and large towns have developed over time and sets out the implications for how the Government should approach its levelling up agenda.
How can we level up struggling towns?
As we near closer to the anticipated publication of the Government's Levelling Up White Paper, Chief Executive Andrew Carter summarises our most recent research on levelling up the UK's towns.