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🚀Cities Outlook 2026 is out now!
🏙️ Our annual report looks at how the UK’s cities are performing — and what that means for economic growth and living standards.
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On our latest podcast @AntBreach joins us to help break down the Budget 👇🎧
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Quick thoughts on today's fiscal devolution roadmap, building off our four tests:
1. This is the end of the beginning for fiscal devolution. Government now accepts fiscal centralisation is a national economic problem - and over the longer term there is more fiscal devo to come
Centre for Cities set out four tests for the fiscal devolution roadmap earlier this week.
We’re interested in fiscal devolution first and foremost as a means by which to unlock economic growth. So how does the roadmap look through that lens?
@AntBreach with a quick take on "the end of the beginning" for fiscal devolution.
Centre for Cities set out four tests for the fiscal devolution roadmap earlier this week.
We’re interested in fiscal devolution first and foremost as a means by which to unlock economic growth. So how does the roadmap look through that lens?
@AntBreach with a quick take on "the end of the beginning" for fiscal devolution.
"Devolve it all and then measure us on the success" ~ Mayor @KiMcGuinness on devolving powers to solve the NEETs crisis👇
Alongside the Budget, the Government is expected on Wednesday to publish a roadmap for fiscal devolution.
@AntBreach has written four "growth tests", to help assess what will be a major milestone for devolution in England 👇
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As mayors gain greater powers and control over funding, how should scrutiny and accountability evolve?
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From a similar base in the 1990s, French cities have far outpaced England on tram building.
Leeds first secured approval for trams in 1993 and still won’t have them until the late 2030s 👇
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Britain’s 10 biggest cities hold 73 per cent of urban Britain’s higher-paid jobs. But London alone accounts for 52 per cent.
The next nine cities have the same population share, yet just 21 per cent 👇
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"That's £500 going into the pockets of over 200,000 families" ~ Mayor @bevcraig on free bus travel for 16–18 year olds in greater Manchester 🚌
Only London, Bristol and Leeds have an above-average share of higher-paid jobs among Britain’s ten largest cities.
Closing that gap would mean over 100,000 more higher-paid jobs👇
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NEW REPORT | Mayors have big plans for trams, rail and roads. But building transport in England is slow and costly. Licence to build sets out how devolution can help mayors deliver 👇
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Mayors face four interlocking barriers: powers at the wrong geography, slow and uncertain planning, reliance on central grants, and limited capacity.
Fixing one alone will not be enough.
We recommend devolving tram approvals to mayors, giving them London-style powers over key roads, letting mayors keep a share of income and corporation tax alongside stronger borrowing powers, and boosting mayoral capacity funding.
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The Budget is being billed as a quiet affair, but it is the best opportunity to make real the commitment to 'rewiring the state'.
🖋️ Read @andrewcities on the blog today
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Join us next week to hear from Deputy Mayor of London for Business & Growth @howarddawber on what further powers London needs from government and what opportunities greater devolution could create for the capital 🏙️👇
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