Funding
‘Radical and carefully designed’: but will fiscal devolution do enough to promote growth?
The government’s plans for fiscal devolution are both radical and carefully designed to dodge pitfalls, according to Thomas Pope, chief economist at the Institute for Government.
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News-in-Brief
£1.5bn borrowing facility will help mayors ‘get on with the job’
Mayors have welcomed government plans for good growth funding – which include the development of a £1.5bn borrowing facility from 2028 – ahead of the Autumn Budget and publication of the Fiscal Devolution Roadmap.
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Events
Room151’s LGPS Investment Forum 2026
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Royal College of Surgeons, 38-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields,
London, WC2A 3PE
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