DEVOLUTION

Labour fleshes out Take Back Control Act

By Martin Ford | 25 January 2023

Councils would have a legal right to request further devolution under a future Labour Government.

DEVOLUTION

Gove promises further devolution and funding changes

By Martin Ford | 25 January 2023

Local government secretary Michael Gove has promised further devolution and changes to funding in...

DEVOLUTION

Call to 'hardwire' levelling up into law

By Martin Ford | 24 January 2023

A call has been made for levelling up to be ‘hardwired into law’ by a coalition of councils and b...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Levelling up's latest swerve

By Henri Murison | 24 January 2023

Devolution of the levelling up funding pot would have been far less wasteful of resources and muc...

WHITEHALL

Whitehall engagement varies across departments, review finds

By Mark Conrad | 23 January 2023

Government departments that lack regional structures have struggled to engage with place-based in...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Potential investment from a Norfolk deal would be a huge boost

By Sheila Oxtoby | 23 January 2023

Sheila Oxtoby says the county deal for Norfolk might not be the one everyone would have liked or ...

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES

Levelling Up Fund under fire

By Martin Ford | 19 January 2023

Councils have demanded a new way of funding the sector following the announcement of the Levellin...

WHITEHALL

Yorkshire Mayors call for cultural devolution

By Dan Peters | 18 January 2023

The mayors of South and West Yorkshire have called for cultural spending to be devolved from Whit...

WHITEHALL

Districts' legal threat over devolution deal

By Paul Marinko | 17 January 2023

Four Norfolk districts have threatened to take legal action over the county’s handling of a devol...

WHITEHALL

Labour proposes independent panel to measure levelling up success

By Heather Jameson | 17 January 2023

Shadow secretary of state Lisa Nandy has vowed to scrap the Government’s ‘vague, disingenuous’ le...