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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/55",
  "legislation_title": "Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Statement of levelling-up missions",
  "text": "(1) A Minister of the Crown must prepare, and lay before each House of Parliament, a statement of levelling-up missions.\n(2) A “statement of levelling-up missions” is a document which sets out—\n(a) objectives which His Majesty’s Government intends to pursue to reduce geographical disparities in the United Kingdom significantly (“levelling-up missions”), within a period specified in the statement (the “mission period”), and\n(b) details of how His Majesty’s Government proposes to measure progress in delivering those levelling-up missions (the “mission progress methodology and metrics”).\n(3) In the course of preparing a statement of levelling-up missions, the Minister of the Crown must have regard to—\n(a) the importance of the levelling-up missions in the statement (taken as a whole) addressing both economic and social disparities in opportunities or outcomes, and\n(b) the needs of rural areas.\n(4) The mission period for a statement of levelling-up missions must not—\n(a) begin before the statement has been laid before each House of Parliament, nor\n(b) be shorter than five years.\n(5) A statement of levelling-up missions must specify a target date for the delivery of each of the levelling-up missions in it, which may be before or at the end of the mission period.\n(6) If different target dates are specified under subsection (5) for different levelling-up missions, the statement of levelling-up missions must give reasons for the different dates.\n(7) The first statement of levelling-up missions must come into effect before the end of the period of one month beginning with the day on which this section comes into force.\n(8) A statement of levelling-up missions comes into effect when—\n(a) the statement has been laid before each House of Parliament and published by a Minister of the Crown, and\n(b) the mission period in the statement begins.\n(9) Before the end of the mission period in a statement of levelling-up missions (“the old statement”), a Minister of the Crown must prepare a new statement of levelling-up missions, lay it before each House of Parliament and publish it.\n(10) The mission period in the new statement of levelling-up missions must begin no later than immediately after the end of the mission period in the old statement.\n(11) When the new statement of levelling-up missions comes into effect it replaces the old statement, which ceases to have effect.\n(12) References in this Part to the current statement of levelling-up missions are to the statement of levelling-up missions for the time being in effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 in force at 26.12.2023, see s. 255(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/55/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:50:40.116941+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}