The Fiscal Implications of ‘Levelling Up’ and UK

The next section provides a brief overview of the key features of the UK fiscal governance system in the light of the OECD-wide evidence, and then in the third section each of these features is discussed in detail. [...] In this paper we will examine the evidence on each of these points, in order assess the extent to which the ongoing and proposed changes to the sub-central governance of the UK may alter the scale of the UK’s interregional inequalities. [...] For the rest of this paper, and for the purposes of terminology, we refer to any government decisions or activities undertaken in the three devolved administrations, in the English combined authority city-regions and also in local government areas as ‘sub-central government’ (SCG) activities, and this terminology is also consistent with the nomenclature of the OECD.3 The Unique Features of the UK. [...] The central question here is therefore how to design a sub-central institutional framework which allows us to achieve the right balance the relationship between the size of the sub-central governance units and the specific roles and responsibilities they are required to take on, and to do this in a manner which overcomes some of the underlying constraints inherent in the sub-central fiscal system. [...] 2010) and these are, namely: the representation of citizens in the actions of the elected officials; the provision and delivery of household, personal and amenity-related activities and services; and the regulation of activities associated with the provision and enforcement of guidelines necessary for maintaining social order and community wellbeing (Clark et al.