Local authorities in the North and Midlands are still counting the cost of the heavy rains that have fallen across the region over the past few months, they have explained to PF.
Eight local government pension schemes across the Midlands have developed a plan to pool their assets into a £35bn single investment fund as part of government-backed reforms to the sector.
Councils, local enterprise partnerships and businesses from across the Midlands have today set out a joint plan to boost the region’s economy, which is to be supported by £5m of government funding.
Chancellor George Osborne has urged cities in the Midlands to develop plans for metro mayors so that powers over health and social care, transport, housing and skills can be devolved to combined...
Chancellor George Osborne has pledged to devolve skills funding to combined authorities in the Midlands as part of a 15-year plan to make the region ‘an engine for growth’.
