Progress towards eradicating regional inequalities has been “glacial”, driven by patchy policy initiatives and the absence of stable long-term funding, according to a leading think-tank.
Projects paid for through levelling up funding pots have faced huge delays and the government does not plan to evaluate their long-term success, despite the fact it was supposed to be a flagship...
Daniella Barrow, senior director at Norse Consulting, believes many local authorities lack the resources necessary to make full use of levelling-up funding, and that partnership working holds the key.
The government’s supposed flagship policy of levelling up will fail if councils do not receive additional funding and powers, experts have said after one of the policy’s original architects said...
The government will fail to eradicate regional inequalities across the UK without providing additional support to more deprived areas and ending competitive bidding pots, urban council leaders have...
A minister has not disputed that the Treasury does not have confidence in her department’s ability to spend public money well, according to a senior MP.
Local authorities in the most deprived areas of England have faced government cuts far outstripping those faced by the richest areas – a situation one council leader said needs to be reversed “for ‘...
The government has briefed that allowing councils to keep 100% of their right to buy receipts for two years will help increase social housing stock by thousands – but it could fail without other...
The inflation crisis shows just how important ‘levelling up’ the UK should be to the government, former CIPFA president Mike Driver told the PF Live Scotland conference.
Six “ambitious” bids for money from the Levelling Up Fund make up a package that would regenerate areas in six of Leeds’ parliamentary constituencies, the city council has said.
Whether local enterprise partnerships are integrated into local authorities immediately or in the future, post-levelling-up, a seamless transition will be essential.
Conservative leadership candidates risk missing the wider picture about the need to ‘level up’ the UK with their statements about tax cuts and shrinking the Whitehall wage bill, former education...
The UK’s £22bn infrastructure bank has said it expects clean energy will make up the largest sector in its investment portfolio as it unveiled its first ever strategic plan.
Levelling up secretary Michael Gove was unable to confirm how the government will fund the proposed expansion of the right-to-buy scheme, but urged MPs to “watch this space”.
An MP has asked the government for clarity on where ‘levelling up’ money is being distributed around the UK, suggesting the array of funding pots makes it “difficult, if not impossible” to see which...
