Centre for Cities outlines the implications of the Spending Review for cities
Author: Kieran LarkinDate: 22/10/2010
The Spending Review gave us the detail on how the Government intends to reduce its £109 billion structural budget deficit. The impact of the cuts will certainly fall heavily on all cities. However, it was pleasing that the Spending Review focused not only on cuts but also on how Government spending could support long term growth, in which cities – home to 75 percent of the UK’s private sector jobs – will need to play a key role.
- a larger public investment budget;
- an extension to the Regional Growth Fund;
- some protection for the transport budget; and
- greater spending freedoms for local authorities.
The Centre for Cities suggested many of these policies in our Spending Review submission.
We've outlined the main implications for cities in the analysis below.
Following the release of the Comprehensive Spending Review and the White
Paper on Local Growth, the Centre for Cities is conducting a short
survey of representatives among the cities across the UK. We
want to understand and publicise cities' responses to these major policy
decisions, particularly in relation to their local economies.
The survey consists of 12 questions and should take no more than 15 minutes - we'd be very grateful if you could take the time to complete it.
