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ECONOMIC GROWTH

Levelling-up 'losing its way'

By Martin Ford | 11 March 2021

The Government’s methods of levelling-up are further dividing rather than uniting the country, it...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Lord Heseltine calls for a cross-government approach to regeneration

By Ann McGauran | 10 March 2021

Lord Heseltine has put the case for a senior cross-departmental Cabinet minister and committee to...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

LEPs sidelined ahead of review

By Dan Peters | 10 March 2021

Local enterprise partnerships (LEP) have been side-lined from two crucial funds ahead of a review...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Councils in a jam shouldn't have to scrape for funding crumbs

By Heather Jameson | 10 March 2021

Heather Jameson lays out what ministers need to do if they 'really want to streamline local gover...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Unfinished business

By Jonathan Carr-West | 09 March 2021

The vision in Budget 2021 focused on a global, green, high tech economy, ‘but there was no sign o...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Creating a coherent framework for the residual COVID challenges

By John O’Brien | 09 March 2021

Councils' voice in, for example, the discussion about the future organisation of public health ne...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Levelling up risks becoming less than the sum of its parts

By Zoe Billingham | 08 March 2021

There is always political appetite for short-term infrastructure projects, but we need transparen...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Changing the economic geography

By Paul Swinney | 08 March 2021

Paul Swinney believes last week’s Budget showed a Government intent on maintaining control from t...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

You can't level up from (just) the top down

By Andy Burns | 05 March 2021

Andy Burns says while the ‘levelling up’ measures in the Budget are welcome, more strategic coher...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Levelling Up through Community Ownership

By Andrew Laird | 05 March 2021

Andrew Laird welcomes the plan to create a £150m Community Ownership Fund and says the agenda sho...

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