Stephen Aldridge

Director for Analysis and Data at Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Director for Analysis and Data at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

A government economist by background, he has also worked in the Department of Trade and Industry (now the Department for Business and Trade); various predecessors to his current department; the Cabinet Office; and Her Majesty’s Treasury.

Amongst other things, Stephen is a founding trustee and Board member of the Centre for Homelessness Impact; a member of the Public Policy Committee of the British Academy; a Council member of the Academy of Social Sciences; a trustee of Local Trust; a Governor of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research; an observer to the independent commissions on Productivity and Neighbourhoods; and an Advisory Council member at the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge.

Stephen was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the Queen’s birthday honours list 2007.

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    Levelling up: Capital Infrastructure

    The case for capital infrastructure investment is that it will provide jobs in the short term and improve livelihoods and business operations in the long term, although the long term benefits are not guaranteed. Should capital infrastructure investment be a space blind approach which allows people to move to more prosperous areas or a place based approach which seeks to correct existing spatial inequalities and improve prosperity of regions?