Our first paper, Tackling the UK’s regional economic inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention, has been cited in several major pieces of UK policy-making over the past month.
First, the Government’s Long-Term Plan for Towns, published on 1 October 2023, cited our findings around the long lasting effects of deindustrialisation on parts of the UK economy.
Then, the Government’s Network North: Transforming British Transport, presented to parliament in October 2023 draws on our evidence on the importance of alleviating congestion within city-regions to increase the effective size of non-London cities.
Finally, last week the National Infrastructure Commission published its second ever National Infrastructure Assessment, which again drew on our findings around public transport networks within city-regions creating a bottleneck to productivity growth.