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’s economic geography will be reliant on the private and third sectors. So how can how can central and local government foster collaborations with business and the social economy to drive levelling up? Speakers: Paul Scully MP, Minister of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for London Rt Hon Hazel Blears, Chair of the Board for Social Investment Business Ed Cox, Executive Director for Strategy, Integration and Net Zero at West Midlands Combined Authority Sara Williams, CEO of Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce This event was chaired by Thomas Pope, Deputy Chief Economist at the Institute for Government. This event took place at the 2022 Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.