The next government should create an independent City Devolution Commission to devolve power over public services and some taxes to every major UK conurbation by the end of the parliament, the RSA...
Extending devolution to England’s non-metropolitan areas is vital to expanding economic growth and tackling skills shortages, an expert commission has concluded.
Groups of local authorities should be given complete control over council tax, including the value of bands and the timing of revaluations, the Independent Commission on Local Government Finance has...
The recent Stormont House Agreement appears to promise Northern Ireland another £2bn in additional funding. But a careful look at the detail tells a rather different story.
More powers for Scotland must be matched by devolution of tax, spending and welfare powers in England and Wales, according to a poll of council leaders and Cabinet members.
A pledge by UK party leaders to maintain the Barnett Formula for funding public services in Scotland if there is a no vote in Thursday’s independence referendum will increase demands for English...
The next government must seize the opportunity to devolve financial powers to city regions in England, the Commons’ local government select committee has recommended.
Chancellor George Osborne today said he wanted to ‘start a conversation’ about a new model of city government that would see greater devolution of budgets to local level.
When David Cameron and Nick Clegg crossed the Severn to hand over new fiscal powers to the Welsh Assembly, they kept a ‘lockstep’ on income tax. But there’s no turning back from the...
London is driving the recovery, but other large UK cities should be contributing much more. They must be given the tools to grow their economies and respond to local circumstances
It’s a year since elected majors were rejected by many of England’s big cities. So would local government have been in a more powerful position if the result had been different?
