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RDAs dissolved Apr 2012. Government Office decision Oct 2010

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CLG published its Structural Reform Plan today, picked out the two headline dates regarding the regional tier. The document replace “the old, top-down systems of targetsand central micromanagement”. Central government will only retain oversight over local authorities in “exceptional areas”.

Fieldwork is up and running on the project now so I don’t have as much time as I would like to analyse the new stuff coming out of Whitehall at the moment. The document is quite short; comments welcome on the mentions given to energy efficiency and sustainable development, or anything else that takes your fancy. All help gratefully appreciated :-)

Regional Development Agencies to be abolished

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Today's Budget has the news, RDAs will be abolished through the Public Bodies Bill with a White Paper 'setting out proposals' later in the summer (section 1.89). These proposals look to be based around how local authorities want arrangements to look for regional development. There is an early (unenthusiastic) reaction from the leader of Nottingham City Council here.

No analysis here as yet, other than to note that if the RDAs do disappear then it leaves only the Government Offices and Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships organised regionally.