No region will have Treasury guidance “wielded against them”, the chancellor has promised as she unveiled a major shake-up of the rules governing the allocation of public investment.
Local government misunderstanding of Whitehall’s process for assessing funding bids – not the methodology itself – has hampered ‘levelling up’, according to a government review of the Green Book.
The upcoming review of the Treasury’s Green Book should limit private sector involvement in business cases to reduce complexity and increase transparency, according to think tank Centre for Cities.
The upcoming Spending Review will be driven by speeding up decision-making through the greater use of data, according to chief secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay.
