Coverage of the third day of debate in the House of Lords on the report stage of the English Devolution and Community ...

The government has launched consultations on devolution proposals to establish mayoral combined authorities or mayoral combined county authorities in six English locations. The areas that have joined ...

Over the past twenty years, I’ve had the chance to observe a remarkable experiment in urban governance reform: England’s efforts to devolve more power to local decisionmakers through metro mayors, ...

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Daniel Kenealy receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. A metropolitan area formed in 1974 covering about 500 square miles; a population of more than 2.5m; an economy bigger ...

New combined local authorities will get wide-ranging new powers under the Government’s devolution bill, Angela Rayner has said, as she proclaimed a “new era” for Britain. Powers including transport, ...

English devolution has begun, and is kicking off what could be a transformative era in the way the nation is run. Not just transformative in a political sense, but potentially for the property ...

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust has warned that England’s devolution plans could fail nature without new local powers and strong environmental duties. Did you know with a Digital ...