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Recommendation 10
10
Rejected
Future City and Growth Deals should include greater powers for local government in Northern Ireland.
Recommendation
Future City and Growth Deals should include greater powers for local government in Northern Ireland. Deals should also include complementary funding strands on both skills and core infrastructure. (Recommendation, Paragraph 59)
Government response summary AI-generated
The government notes the recommendation but states there are currently no plans for future City and Growth Deals. It acknowledges the importance of skills promotion, identifying it as a potential theme for the separate Local Growth Fund, but focuses on delivering current deals.
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Government Response
Rejected
HM Government · verbatim extract
Rejected
I note the Committee’s recommendation. The UK Government is always keen to support skills promotion. This is why we have identified skills promotion as a potential theme for the Local Growth Fund (subject to public consultation which is ongoing). However, there are currently no plans for future City and Growth Deals. The focus at present is on delivering the current deals effectively in partnership with the NI Executive and other deal partners.
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