Sub-national and local appraisal

A3.3 Interventions can have distributional objectives or consequences which need to be assessed as part of appraisal. Regional, sub-national and local effects are distributional effects relating to geographically defined areas. This section covers the appraisal of interventions:

with sub-national or regional distributional effects (e.g. those that involve some form of redistribution of welfare to different parts of the UK)

which are targeted at one or more types of geographic area (e.g. interventions targeted at rural areas35)

which are targeted at one or more geographic area (e.g. a specific town or city)

A3.4 These interventions require additional analysis to UK level analysis. They require appraisal of the effects on both the target locations and other areas that may experience positive and negative spillover effects. The results should be presented alongside and separately from UK level analysis.

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35 Further information on the appraisal of effects in rural areas is available from Defra at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rural-proofing.