Senior civil servants have pledged that local industrial strategies will be rolled out everywhere by 2021, The MJ understands.
The reassurance to senior sector figures comes after the Local Government Association (LGA) expressed fears that parts of the country could be left behind, with a second wave of areas receiving less funding.
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