With the arrival of a new government, it was fitting that PF Live kicked off with one of the key questions facing the new administration: is the UK ready to reckon with the challenge of...
Approval of a new combined authority in the East Midlands will give power over £4bn of funding and “bring lasting benefits” to the region, local leaders have said.
Levelling up secretary Michael Gove said councils deserve “sufficiently generous” funding and hinted more devolution deals could be announced in the Autumn Statement.
Mayoral combined authorities and sustainable local government funding could be critical to reducing regional inequalities, according to a report drawing on interviews with former ministers and senior...
Sustained public investment and devolution of local transport powers will reduce car use, improve road and rail connections and help meet climate change goals, the National Infrastructure Commission...
Transferring Local Enterprise Partnerships powers to councils will give them a bigger role in developing their economies and avoid duplicating work, the government has said.
Nobody has a better idea of what the UK’s town and city centres need than the people who live, experts have told the All Party Parliamentary Group on Devolution.
The government will fail to accelerate the transition to net zero without the devolution of funding and additional resources to boost local authority capacity, city leaders have warned.
Poor understanding of the responsibilities and vision of the West of England Combined Authority is preventing the region from benefiting fully from devolution, an independent report has found.
The reluctance of the Treasury to extend fiscal devolution to local government across England will hold back what was supposed to be the government’s flagship policy, experts have said.
A dozen English councils risk failing to meet their statutory duties in the coming months, which researchers said underlines the need for drastic reforms to local government funding.
A Labour government would devolve sweeping powers away from Whitehall in a bid to give local areas a sense of “control over their lives and community”, leader Keir Starmer has promised.
The financially restrictive devolution settlement is holding back Wales’s ability to plan for the long term, an independent commission looking at the country’s future has argued.
Two counties have been offered separate devolution deals worth more than £1bn over the next 30 years, alongside new powers over education and regional development.
