Hawthorne: Local industrial strategies could go same way as devolution

By Dan Peters | 04 July 2018

Parts of the country could be left behind when Whitehall rolls out its local industrial strategies, a senior Local Government Association (LGA) figure has warned.

Chairman of the LGA’s people and places board, Mark Hawthorne, said he was concerned that the Government’s enthusiasm for local industrial strategies would wane as it had for devolution.

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