Thread by @jillongovt

the new Levelling Up taskforce under Andy Haldane is interesting for govt structure nerds (and an interesting contrast to govt structures for #netzero) @CommonsBEIS

Haldane is perm sec for 6 months (levelling up will take longer than that .. but first focus will be on working out what this means...) reporting jointly to Michael Gove and the PM.

The people working for him will be (I understand) a joint team from @cabinetofficeuk and the new DLUHC. not cleat how they relate to the delivery unit (but until we know what LU is...they can't do that much)

Here is the announcement... gov.uk/government/new…

and a blog from me @UKandEU about how difficult it is to drive cross-departmental action from a line department... ukandeu.ac.uk/michael-gove-m…

so how does this compare to #netzero... there the lead remains in @beisgovuk. No comparable heavyweight to Haldane. No equivalent to the LU taskforce. apparent reliance on conventional Cabinet cttees.

In practice both the Cabinet Office and No.10 delivery unit have fingers in the pie....But the delays to the production of the #netzero strategy suggests that more central heft might be necessary...

.@instituteforgov looked at that last year in our report on delivering net zero instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/n… Govt now taking forward some of these ideas .. but for levelling up not net zero..

But contrary to what PM said #UNGA2021 net zero is really quite difficult.....and govt needs to work out the structures it needs to deliver. ENDS