Economic recovery is well underway; now the challenge for national and local politicians alike is to help sustain it, providing the right environment in which businesses can thrive and ensuring people across the country benefit from economic growth.

Efficient transport, skilled workers, quality housing, good public space and high quality amenities available to businesses and workers alike are vital to this agenda. But economies don't stop at council boundaries, so creating the right business environment requires local authorities to work together.

Our latest report, Breaking Boundaries, sponsored by Capita, argues that supporting, enabling and incentivising that to happen will be critical to the next five years of growth.

Working across administrative boundaries is vital to jobs and growth because of the way the economy is changing.