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Fiscal devolution to cities and city regions
10 March 2014
Committee to hold its fifth oral evidence session on fiscal devolution to cities on Monday 10 March 2014 at 4.15pm
- Parliament TV: Fiscal devolution to cities and city regions
- Inquiry page: Fiscal devolution to cities and city regions
- Communities and Local Government Committee
This is the fifth oral evidence session of the Committee's inquiry. The session will explore and test recent proposals to give cities and city regions greater powers to raise and spend money locally. Issues it will examine include: the process of devolving powers, governance, business rates and borrowing; equalisation and redistribution; and non property taxes.
Witnesses
At 4.15 pm
- Roger Lawrence, Leader, Wolverhampton City Council (submission 24)
- Cllr Nick Forbes, on behalf of Core Cities (submission 8)
- Stephen Hughes, Former Chief Executive, Birmingham City Council (submission 30)
All other written submissions received and transcripts from previous oral evidence sessions can be found on the fiscal devolution inquiry page.
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