diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/views/_landing_page.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/views/_landing_page.scss
index 3da2446f28..3073e3b8c9 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/views/_landing_page.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/views/_landing_page.scss
@@ -22,3 +22,23 @@
     text-decoration: none;
   }
 }
+
+// Consistent lower margins for top-level blocks
+// Self-chaining the class name gives higher
+// specificty and avoids the use of !important.
+//
+// Note the desktop size is hardcoded here as the
+// govuk-spacing(x) helper does not include large
+// enough sizes.
+
+.app-margin-bottom-responsive.app-margin-bottom-responsive  {
+  margin-bottom: govuk-spacing(6);
+
+  @include govuk-media-query($from: tablet) {
+    margin-bottom: govuk-spacing(8);
+  }
+
+  @include govuk-media-query($from: desktop) {
+    margin-bottom: 80px;
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/views/landing_page/blocks/_featured.html.erb b/app/views/landing_page/blocks/_featured.html.erb
index 2226e31c0d..5b4420bdde 100644
--- a/app/views/landing_page/blocks/_featured.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/landing_page/blocks/_featured.html.erb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <%
   add_view_stylesheet("landing_page/featured")
 %>
-<div class="featured">
+<div class="featured app-margin-bottom-responsive">
   <div class="featured__child featured__child--content">
     <% block.featured_content.each do |subblock| %>
       <%= render_block(subblock) %>
diff --git a/app/views/landing_page/blocks/_govspeak.html.erb b/app/views/landing_page/blocks/_govspeak.html.erb
index ac1d87fdb9..8aca95bb6e 100644
--- a/app/views/landing_page/blocks/_govspeak.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/landing_page/blocks/_govspeak.html.erb
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+<%-
+  margin_top = block.data["margin_top"]
+  margin_bot = block.data["margin_bottom"]
+
+  classes = ""
+  classes << "govuk-!-margin-top-#{margin_top} " if margin_top
+  classes << "govuk-!-margin-bottom-#{margin_bot} " if margin_bot
+%>
+
+<% if classes.present? %>
+  <div class="<%= classes %>">
+<% end %>
 <%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/govspeak", { inverse: block.data["inverse"] } do %>
   <%= block.data["content"].html_safe %>
 <% end %>
+<% if classes.present? %>
+  </div>
+<% end %>
diff --git a/app/views/landing_page/blocks/_hero.html.erb b/app/views/landing_page/blocks/_hero.html.erb
index e5ca1642d6..ffb971e1cb 100644
--- a/app/views/landing_page/blocks/_hero.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/landing_page/blocks/_hero.html.erb
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   add_view_stylesheet("landing_page/hero")
 
   hero_classes = %w[app-b-hero]
+  hero_classes << "app-margin-bottom-responsive"
   hero_classes << "app-b-hero--mid-page" if block.data["theme"] == "middle_left"
 
   grid_class = "govuk-grid-column-two-thirds-from-desktop"
diff --git a/lib/data/landing_page_content_items/landing_page.yaml b/lib/data/landing_page_content_items/landing_page.yaml
index 2c226a91d4..5d6a450aec 100644
--- a/lib/data/landing_page_content_items/landing_page.yaml
+++ b/lib/data/landing_page_content_items/landing_page.yaml
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ blocks:
     content: <p>Right content!</p>
 - type: govspeak
   content: <h2>Statistics</h2>
+  margin_top: 5
+  margin_bottom: 5
 - type: hero
   theme: middle_left
   image: