A commentary on the <scp>City Deals</scp> in the <scp>UK</scp>

Jones, Peter; Wynn, Martin G; Hillier, David; Comfort, Daphne

doi:10.1002/pa.1661

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“…City Deals are essentially bespoke funding and decision-making packages negotiated between national governments and local authorities. In countries such as the United Kingdom or Australia, city deals are increasingly used to promote urban economic growth (Jones et al 2017). Each City Deal is seen to reflect the needs of individual cities and their surrounding regions, and each has its own distinctive funding and development agenda.…”

Section: Social Policy Issuesmentioning

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Trends and Outlook of Natural Resource Use in West Asia

2023

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This piece of work is framed by the set of initiatives rolled out by the Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) in West Asia to enhance the knowledge and capacity of policymakers. It is the first attempt at a regional level to translate the “Global Resources Outlook 2019” (GRO 2019) approach and to test the potential of this analytical capability to inform regional and country consultations. The aim of the report is therefore to: • provide information on the regional environmental impacts of natural resource use; • set out the potential outlook for natural resource use and GHG emissions from 2015 to 2060, which includes a “Historical Trends” and a “Towards Sustainability” pathway for using natural resources and the prospects of future use; and therefore • supply the background information for undertaking regional consultations to shape relevant and targeted policies in the region aimed at the sustainable use of resources. This report marks also the first attempt of translating at regional level the methodology underlying the ‘Global Resources Outlook 2019’ (GRO 2019), to amplify the regional perspectives from the insights of the global projections. In order to do that, the study covers the 12 countries served by the UNEP Regional Office for West Asia: Kingdom of Bahrain, Republic of Iraq, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, State of Kuwait, Republic of Lebanon, State of Palestine, State of Qatar, Sultanate of Oman, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Yemen.

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Section: Social Policy Issuesmentioning

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Trends and Outlook of Natural Resource Use in West Asia

2023

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“…The introduction of these deals remains problematic for MLG in Scotland by creating competing policy agendas, which local authorities hope to exploit (Audit Scotland, 2020). The underlying political dimensions are not apparent within the opaque negotiating arrangements (Jones et al, 2017b; Van der Zwet et al, 2020). The issue which emerged from the initial Glasgow City Deal and has been consistent for all that followed, but rarely discussed, is the extent to which these deals cut across the devolved settlement.…”

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Deals and devolution: The role of local authority deals in undermining devolved decision making

Morphet¹

2022

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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The introduction of the devolved administrations (DAs) in the UK in 1999 was based on specific legal powers for this new scale of governance which included control of national and local priorities for expenditure within devolved matters. The legal powers conferred on these administrations included freedoms to determine expenditure within budgets which, in the case of DAs, included specific allocations linked to the Barnett Formula ensuring proportional allocations of UK state expenditure in a range of policy areas and later in the DAs, powers were provided to allow direct access to borrowing and raising funding through a range of means. In the period 1999–2014, DA powers were gradually increased, first in Scotland then in Wales and Northern Ireland. However, since 2014, in the DAs, UK Central Government has been using the provision of local and sub-regional ‘deal’ funding models, controlled by Whitehall, to gradually undermine this devolved decision making. This article discusses the role devolution and deals within the context of increasing EU principles of subsidiarity and the exercise of the UK Government’s de facto and de jure powers in response. It examines the role of deals in the DAs and their lack of accountability within the UK state.

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“…However, the new combined authorities and metro mayors indicate a trend towards more substantial approaches to city-regional institutional formalization which are able to incorporate central incentives and directives more effectively. These include direct deals with local governments to embed central growth priorities in their planning policy and encourage them to sign up to managerial strategic leadership in terms of combined authorities at the city-regional level (Jones et al 2017). The first wave of City Deals focused on major conurbations and offered financial incentives, such as an 'earn back' model, and new local powers, such as greater city control over rail services (HM Government 2012).…”

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A centennial review of the English regional question: Whose policy space is it?

Bafarasat

Baker

2021

Regional & Federal Studies

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The Regional Authority Index emphasizes the emergence of sub-national regions in Europe at the expense of central government but this does not chime with dynamics of regional governance in England. Seeing governance as a construct of the central state for masked steering of sub-national democratic establishments whose 'side-effects' (new political identities) are then addressed by the central state through a cyclical rescaling of governance, we explore this inconsistency. Our centennial review of subnational governance in England challenges the concept of networked polity whereby the unconditional role of the state is to empower stakeholders and facilitate cooperation amongst them. Although sub-regional governance currently seems to have become a cross-party approach to local management, the central state may continue to promote alternative governance scales in the future to (I) break down resultant sub-regional political identities threatening central policy; and (II) maintain its influence on local governments in relation to economic objectives.

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A commentary on the City Deals in the UK

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Trends and Outlook of Natural Resource Use in West Asia

Trends and Outlook of Natural Resource Use in West Asia

Deals and devolution: The role of local authority deals in undermining devolved decision making

A centennial review of the English regional question: Whose policy space is it?

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