How can government foster collaborations with business and the social economy to drive levelling up?
Government cannot do levelling up alone, and an ambitious agenda to change the UK\u2019s economic geography will be reliant on the private and third sectors.\n\nSo how can how can central and local government foster collaborations with business and the social economy to drive levelling up?\n\nSpeakers:\nPaul Scully MP, Minister of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for London\nRt Hon Hazel Blears, Chair of the Board for Social Investment Business\nEd Cox, Executive Director for Strategy, Integration and Net Zero at West Midlands Combined Authority\nSara Williams, CEO of Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce\n\nThis event was chaired by Thomas Pope, Deputy Chief Economist at the Institute for Government.\n\nThis event took place at the 2022 Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.