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The Centre for Cities blog has moved! 26 Mar 2013 | 01:22 pm
Centre for Cities will no longer be posting on this blog. All blogs will now be posted to our main website www.centreforcities.org/blog. You can subscribe to the feed here and follow us on twitter for...
A Budget for growth tomorrow? 20 Mar 2013 | 09:35 pm
The UK needs growth and it needs it now: the forecast for 2013 is now halved to 0.6% and unemployment is rising once more. So did the Budget deliver? From a growth perspective, there are various welco...
Where are the foreign businesses in the UK? 20 Mar 2013 | 01:21 pm
Andrew set out yesterday how housing could deliver a short term stimulus to the UK’s economic conundrum. Another area that the Chancellor has hoped will deliver jobs and growth is inward investment, a...
So what did Heseltine say? 19 Mar 2013 | 03:50 pm
I’ve been reflecting on the Government’s response to Heseltine overnight. While most commentators have reacted in a broadly positive way, as always, much depends on how policies are implemented and wh...
Creating a system of city-region governance one place at a time 18 Mar 2013 | 08:13 pm
In the furore associated with the Government’s response to the Heseltine Review another highly significant announcement regarding the North East has been overlooked. Last Friday, the leaders of the se...
Top 10 priorities for government as it takes forward Heseltine's recommendations 18 Mar 2013 | 04:37 pm
The Government’s response to Lord Heseltine’s report No Stone Unturned was announced today. It’s is a ‘once-in-a-parliament’ opportunity to support greater devolution to local areas. Government has co...
Early indications about Heseltine response 18 Mar 2013 | 03:08 pm
As the Budget gets gradually leaked in time honoured fashion (although much less than last year), today is ‘growth’ day, with the focus on the Government’s response to Heseltine, to be published later...
Going for growth: why the Chancellor must aim for more than a “steady-as-she-goes” Budget 15 Mar 2013 | 08:30 pm
Five years into the longest recession in a hundred years, more than halfway through the Parliament…we need economic growth now. But what will – can – the Chancellor do to turn the UK economy around? P...
(Not) spending pennies on the High Street 15 Mar 2013 | 07:29 pm
Seven per cent – that’s how much of the £10 million High Street Innovation Fund, set up last year to bring empty shops back into use, has been spent to date. The figures come from a Freedom of Informa...
Regional banks – how do they look in Germany? 14 Mar 2013 | 08:29 pm
Colleagues in the office and those who know me already are aware that I am extremely interested in regional banks. It is hardly surprising that the topic is in vogue given we suffered the financial cr...
