The clearest of Andy Burnham’s proposed policies is introducing greater levels of devolution – the handing over of more power ...

Calls to allow a Heart of Wessex authority that was first rejected by the government in January 2025.

Claims that the Welsh government has begun negotiations with Westminster over devolving rail in the future have been disputed ...

Devolution of economic powers has the potential to unlock stronger growth but there is nothing inevitable about its success. It will stand or fall on its execution, the incentives it creates and the ...

Exclusive: Burnham-aligned thinktank calls for devolution of public services including social care, childcare and skills ...

Could devolution boost UK growth, or would it widen regional divides? We ask what shifting power from Westminster would ...

Millions of voters will head to the polls on 7 May, for local elections in England and national parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales. The UK has had devolved governments since the late 1990s, ...

Calls are growing for Lancashire's devolution plans to be accelerated. The current proposal is for the Red Rose county to have an elected mayor in 2028 following a major shake-up of local government ...

The man expected to be the next PM suggests he wants to give councils in Wales more powers.

Patterns of cloud adoption across the UK public sector are anecdotally far from uniform, with central government bodies notably further ahead of their local government counterparts. But with Whitehall ...

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