Councils in Lancashire have spent £1.5m of public money on consultants to help them bid against each other for money from the flagship £4.8bn Levelling Up Fund
Councils in Lancashire have spent £1.5m of public money on consultants to help them bid against each other for money from the flagship £4.8bn Levelling Up Fund.
The council may see it as money well spent though, as their bid for £49.6 million towards their “Levelling Up East Lancashire” project was successful. Northern Agenda Subscribe to The Northern Agenda newsletter for more from our investigation next week: We reveal details of the millions spent on doomed bids, the consultants who cleaned up and what experts say should replace our 'begging bowl' political system. Sign up at thenorthernagenda.co.uk
"But it’s not just the process itself that’s a problem - it’s the centrality of performance vs delivery politics, which is very Boris Johnson. So there are lots of visits/press releases and sound bites about £20m here or £30m there and it always seems a lot - and many of the schemes/projects are good and popular - and it looks like action and commitment. But it isn’t really."
He said: “This new fiscal autonomy will allow us to push on with the ambitious projects that made our region one of the obvious places to pioneer the next era of devolution in England. I am confident that, alongside Greater Manchester, we will be able to blaze the trail for fiscal devolution and prove that the single pot model should be rolled out to other Mayoral Combined Authority areas in good time.
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