Philip Hammond’s announcements on housing and mayoral borrowing powers represent a welcome shift in policy. But social care’s absence from the chancellor’s speech is more worrying.
Around £100 could be shaved off council tax bills by 2020 as local government becomes more innovative and entrepreneurial, the Localis think-tank has predicted.
Devolution in England could add £144bn a year to the UK economy by 2020 by handing powers and funds to local enterprise partnerships, according to a report from Localis.
