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...
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.
Councils and the government have agreed a devolution deal for York and North Yorkshire that would create a new mayoral combined authority backed with more than half a billion pounds of long-term...
Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) will receive £375,000 funding from central government this year, as bodies prepare plans to merge with combined authorities.
The six mayor-led combined authorities risk becoming “a curiosity of history” as there is little evidence to back their assumption that devolution will improve local economies.
