Good growth is the kind that shows up in people’s ability to make the decisions that shape their futures. It gives people a genuine stake in the economy - a stable income, a secure home, the chance to move, retrain or start a family because they feel able to do so - and depends on an enabling state to ensure those decisive moments in life are genuinely theirs to make. It is a whole‑government approach, a lens that can be applied in every department to ask what will give people more agency and more genuine choices, rather than concentrating opportunity in a handful of sectors or places.

We were delighted to host the launch of Manchester’s Good Growth Fund, the city‑region’s newest initiative to unlock long‑term good growth across all ten boroughs. Right now, too many people feel buffeted by economic forces outside their control. Good growth is about changing that, proving that with the right powers and policies every part of the UK can write its own growth story, and every person can have more choice in the course of their life.