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Summary

The new national indicator set for local authorities and local authority partnerships was announced as part of the Chancellor's Comprehensive Spending Review announcement on Tuesday 9 October. 

The new national indicators will be the only means of measuring national priorities that have been agreed by Government. The Local Government White Paper Strong and Prosperous Communities committed to a smaller more focussed set of priorities as well as radically reduce the number of national indicators.

The number of national indicators has been radically reduced, from the around 1200 that local authorities and their partners report on at present, to 198. The new indicators will strengthen the incentives for closer partnership working to deliver joined-up outcomes because they will apply (where relevant) to other local partners - such as Primary Care Trusts and police.

The headline definitions for the 198 are contained in the document The New Performance Framework for Local Authorities and Local Authority Partnerships: Single Set of National Indicators. We will shortly consult on the technical definitions of the indicators, giving stakeholders an opportunity to give views on the methodology, frequency of reporting, and data sources of each individual indicator. If in the interim period there are detailed questions relating to the indicators, these can be directed to nationalindicators@communities.gsi.gov.uk.

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