House of Commons - Communities and Local Government Committee - Fourth Report

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Communities and Local Government Committee - Fourth Report

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 5 March 2007.

Contents

Terms of Reference

1  Introduction
2  The development and role of the regions

The Government's case
Stakeholder perceptions of policy

3  The existing machinery of regional governance

The Government Offices for the Regions
Influence
The Government's plans for reform
The centre and the regions
The role of the regional co-ordination unit (RCU)
Location of the RCU
Lead relationships
The Regional Development Agencies
Performance of the RDAs
Accountability of the RDAs
Sustainable development
Regional Funding Allocations
The Regional Assemblies
Form and function
Assembly scrutiny
Scrutiny and accountability
Increasing accountability
Accountability of agencies within the regions
Scrutiny at Westminster

4  Regional Economic Performance

Public Service Agreement 2
The role of public expenditure in tackling regional disparities
Current progress on PSA2

5  City-Regions

The rationale for city-regional policy and governance
Defining city-regions in practice
Models of city-regional governance
Governance
The role of Government
City-regions and 'peripheral' areas

6  Conclusion
Recommendations
Annex 1: Visit note—meeting on rurality and peripherality, 6 June 2006
Annex 2: Visit note—meeting with South West Regional Assembly Social Partners, 6 June 2006
Annex 3: Visit note—meeting with the West of England Partnership, 7 June 2006
Annex 4: Visit note—Lille, 21-22 June 2006
Witnesses
List of written evidence
Supplementary written evidence
List of unprinted Papers
Formal Minutes
Reports from the Communities and Local Government Committee in the current Parliament

List of Oral Evidence
Monday 13 March 2006
Monday 20 March 2006
Monday 27 March 2006
Monday 15 May 2006
Wednesday 7 June 2006
Monday 12 June 2006
Monday 19 June 2006
Monday 16 October 2006
Written Evidence

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Prepared 14 March 2007