Ahead of the Scottish government budget, we analyse options for raising additional revenue to protect public services for people in Scotland
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Economy
Budget
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“ I think it already is special we have just been left in the Stone Age .”
This was the response from Helen,* a social worker who had lived in Redcar nearly all her life when she was...
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Devolution & local leadership
Progressive levelling up
IPPR North
Earlier this month, on Yorkshire Day 2022, a devolution deal for York and North Yorkshire was signed by the leaders of the City of York and North Yorkshire councils and the secretary of state for...
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Devolution & local leadership
IPPR North
June 23rd marks eight years since the Northern Powerhouse agenda was launched. On the same date this year voters will go to the polls in a by-election in Wakefield. This blog reflects on the lessons...
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Devolution & local leadership
Economy
Power & politics
Metro mayors
IPPR North
This year’s State of the North report highlights the gap between promises and reality on levelling up.
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Report
Devolution & local leadership
Metro mayors
IPPR North
The UK is one of the most regionally divided countries in the developed world . Over-centralisation, ingrained in a culture that assumes that ‘Whitehall knows best’, is the root cause of this ....
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Devolution & local leadership
IPPR North
Three in every five people in the north of England, that’s 9.7 million people, are now covered by a mayoral combined authority. In the North, six powerful metro mayors now govern areas with a...
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Devolution & local leadership
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Metro mayors
IPPR North
My last face-to-face work meeting before Covid-19 was back in February 2020, a few weeks before the pandemic hit Scotland. Looking back now, the idea of getting the train, going to Glasgow, meeting a...
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Devolution & local leadership
Power & politics
Scotland
IPPR Scotland
A milestone for devolution
This week, voters across the UK will participate in devolved and local elections. The political and policy landscapes are very different from 2017 when the first of...
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Devolution & local leadership
Power & politics
IPPR North
Cornwall was one of the first areas to secure a devolution deal in 2015 and it remains the only non-metropolitan area with devolved powers in England. But six years on, with significant progress...
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Devolution & local leadership
IPPR North