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The MHCLG Appraisal Guide: employment-method scope
Which boundaries matter before calling estimated jobs net additional local employment?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Publication date not recorded · Source page updated: 2026-02-18 · Checked 2026-10-31
- Data period
- England-focused appraisal guidance; selected paragraphs are not an observed project dataset.
- Scope
- Employment paragraphs 6.22 to 6.25: local/national effects, additionality and locally appropriate multipliers.
- Method
- Government appraisal framework. Its illustrative examples and tables are not imported or treated as empirical project results.
- Assumptions
- The counterfactual, location and target group affect an employment appraisal.
- Uncertainty
- These paragraphs do not define construction job-years or verify any data-centre forecast.
- Funding and interests
- MHCLG is the government guidance issuer. Separate funding of these selected paragraphs was not established.
- Reuse
- Crown copyright 2026; express OGL v3.0 government guidance component except identified third-party material. Original short account with attribution/source/licence links only.
- Attribution
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, The MHCLG Appraisal Guide; Crown 2026/OGL v3.0; original shortened account, no endorsement. Read the licence.
- Source notice
- Crown copyright 2026, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The HTML publication expressly states OGL v3.0 except identified third-party content. Original brief account of employment-method guidance only; no illustrations, model tables or third-party content. No endorsement.
- What it cannot establish
- A particular project’s staff count, jobs realised, FTE conversion or model multiplier.
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