Chancellor urged to focus on urban devolution
The government should focus its devolution on work cities not rural areas, the Centre for Cities think tank has said.
The government should focus its devolution on work cities not rural areas, the Centre for Cities think tank has said.
The government should focus its devolution on work cities not rural areas, the Centre for Cities think tank has said.
In a Budget submission to chancellor George Osborne, CfC chief executive Alexandra Jones (pictured) said: “If the primary aim of devolution is to improve the economic performance of the national economy as rapidly as possible, then the ever-growing importance of cities means that the devolution agenda must retain an urban focus if it is to help achieve a high wage, low welfare economy.”
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