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How 'levelling up' got left out of the Spring Statement

The chancellor mentioned the ‘levelling up’ agenda just once in his Spring Statement. Without serious financial backing, the missions in the White Paper are at risk of remaining unfulfilled, says chair of SIGOMA Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton.

By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 29 March 2022

The Government's long-awaited Levelling Up White Paper was launched with much fanfare earlier this year.

This ‘flagship' paper with ‘radical policies' would be the see the ‘starting gun' fired on a decade-long project to ‘level up Britain'.

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Popular articles by Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton

  1. All eyes on the Budget
  2. Local leadership is the solution
  3. How to fix local government finance
  4. The next government will have to fix the broken finance system
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