Supporting the levelling up agenda
We work with government departments to explore and assess policies against the levelling up agenda. This collaborative approach helps them to design better interventions.
皇冠体育app Government Actuary鈥檚 Department (GAD) has been working with government departments to explore how policies can be assessed against the levelling up agenda.
皇冠体育app government鈥檚 high-profile paper White Paper on the levelling up agenda sets out the principles of spreading opportunity more equally across the country.
Progress will be measured using 12 long-term 鈥榤issions鈥� which span multiple government departments and relate to topics such as education, health, and housing.
Mapping the country
GAD works with government departments to assess how policies can best effect the levelling up principles in specific geographical areas. If the policy results in new funding being channelled to more deprived areas, that can provide evidence of support for the levelling up agenda.
An example solution is based on publicly available data from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. 皇冠体育appir series of deprivation indices can be mapped to many of the long-term missions.
皇冠体育appse indices are built up from small geographic areas - Lower-layer Super Output Areas (LSOA). 皇冠体育appre are approximately 30,000 in England. Each LSOA is ranked according to its index score, and these rankings are used to split the country into 10 equally sized categories (or deciles).
皇冠体育app diagram provides a visual summary of the levelling up challenge in England. 皇冠体育app areas in red are ranked as the most deprived.
Better interventions
This collaborative approach between GAD and other government departments allows departments to assess policies against deprivation. It helps them to design better interventions that support the levelling up agenda.
Project lead Matt Kirkpatrick said: 鈥淲e鈥檙e working closely with clients on this key government policy. We provide support by using our actuarial skills to help them assess the effectiveness of their policies in line with the levelling up agenda鈥�
GAD continues to support government clients on this policy. As a result, we build up intelligence on which policy mechanisms are likely to encourage the distribution of funds to the areas which need them most.