Recommendation 152

We heard from the new Government that they agreed with both our evidence, and the direction of travel from the previous Government, that fewer funding programmes with rationalised expectations on local government was a more appropriate approach: 304 “Our concern is that multiple funding streams mean that real industry is needed from local authorities and local communities in the monitoring that they need to satisfy, and that often the priorities were reflective of central priorities rather than local need. The model that we want to move to through our local growth funding models, our local growth plans, is a more allocative, longer-term, single-pot settlement with greater local discretion and lighter-touch central direction.” 305