Cities minister Greg Clark this week rushed to defend the Government’s regional economic record by disputing claims from the Centre for Cities that the North-South divide has widened.
The centre’s annual survey of 64 UK cities, Cities Outlook 2015, found that between 2004-2013 cities in the South saw net jobs growth of 12.4%, outstripping the 0.9% growth in cities elsewhere.
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