Devolution

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 ...

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...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Councils to call for greater devo after White Paper

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2022

The local government sector is to make the case for greater devolution beyond the Levelling Up Wh...

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