Source · Select Committees · Business and Trade Committee
Recommendation 11
11
Not Addressed
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Regional and local devolution is incoherent and inconsistent across England.
Conclusion
Regional and local devolution is incoherent and inconsistent across England. In some areas, this can result in duplicative and ineffective outputs. In other areas, this results in communities which feel left behind, without the support or capacity provided by other tiers of local or regional government.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response discusses the helpfulness of Local Industrial Strategies and encourages local areas to develop their own economic plans, which would be locally owned and not require government agreement. It does not address the committee's observation about the incoherence and inconsistency of regional and local devolution across England.
Paragraph Reference:
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Government Response
The government responded to this report on 3 December 2021. No passage in that response could be matched to this conclusion. Read the response document ↗