Three promises the Chancellor can make to boost growth and fix local finances without using any fiscal headroom
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The current grants system is holding local government back - join Centre for Cities and Clive Betts MP to discuss what a more streamlined system could look like.
The Government’s growth-oriented policies are increasingly focused on big cities, while levelling up worries about redistribution. This is a helpful distinction.
Despite spending cuts, the Government should make room in the budget for regeneration .
The Chancellor put increased spending on public services at the heart of his levelling up vision, but was quiet on productivity
The Chancellor extended much needed short term support for the economy, but his longer term plans offer little hope of levelling up.
This briefing sets out in twelve steps what the Budget 2021 should do to ‘build back better’, level up the economy and help the country to recover from Covid-19.
We’re due to fill out our census forms in less than four weeks’ time, but the roadmap for lifting Covid-19 restrictions should trigger a delay.
While the Budget was trailed as being a response to Corona virus, the chancellor still made time in his hour-long speech to announce a number of policies to help the Government’s levelling up agenda.
The Chancellor’s Budget had something for everyone, but its overriding message for cities was ‘see what 2019 brings’