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ECONOMIC GROWTH
Shared Prosperity Fund shortfall leaves a gaping hole at the heart of levelling up
By Henri Murison | 22 April 2022
The Shared Prosperity Fund allocations present a bleak picture, and represent serious cuts, but t...
HEALTH
Zero progress on climate but devo can keep things on track
By Grace Newcombe | 20 April 2022
The Levelling Up White Paper’s relative silence on net zero represents a huge missed opportunity ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Rhythms and rhetoric do not a devolution make
By Heather Jameson | 20 April 2022
There is still a long way to go before the Johnson Government’s devolution rhetoric feels like a ...
DEVOLUTION
UK Shared Prosperity Fund: there is time to put flaws right
By Lord Bob Kerslake | 19 April 2022
Lord Bob Kerslake says the UK Shared Prosperity Fund has fallen short on all of his three key tes...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Funding decision signals 'waning influence' of LEPs
By Chris Mahony | 12 April 2022
The Government’s decision to slash funding for growth hubs and local enterprise partnerships (LEP...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Porter warning over fresh reorganisation push
By Chris Mahony | 11 April 2022
Some district councils may seek unitary status to ensure they can influence the new wave of combi...
WHITEHALL
LEPs due for integration into combined authorities by 2030
By By Chris Mahony | 06 April 2022
Local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) will be integrated into combined authorities by 2030, tracki...
PARISH COUNCILS
A way of doing politics differently
By Ann McGauran | 05 April 2022
Can we do politics in new ways that engage people rather than being alienating, adversarial and f...
FINANCE
O'Brien defends Sunak's lack of levelling up
By Heather Jameson | 29 March 2022
Levelling up minister Neil O’Brien has denied the spring statement ignored the Government’s flags...
DEVOLUTION
Gove pledges a 'waterfall of devolution'
By Heather Jameson | 28 March 2022
Levelling up secretary Michael Gove has claimed there will be a ‘waterfall of devolution’ as powe...
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