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On 30th April 2021, IED Chair Bev Hurley delivered a keynote speech at the Westminster Social Policy Forum on ‘Regional inequalities and assessing the Government’s levelling up policy framework – priorities, funding mechanisms, implementation, and targeting need across the UK’. The title of her presentation was ‘The outlook for supporting economic growth and regeneration across the UK’. By clicking on the link below you can read Bev’s speech in full, and within it the IED’s perspectives on post-Brexit funding, Shared Prosperity Fund, the future of town centres, social value, and support for businesses.