1. The Brown Agenda SOLACE East Midlands Seminar Monday 29 th October 2007 De Montfort University

2. Introduction – the key differences Focus Funding Friends

3. Focus Blair focus was on people – joining up, ASBOs, womb to tomb Blair – underlying delivery of constitutional reform Brown – focus on economic performance – new duty Brown – focus on places and spatial scales – regions, sub-regions/cities

4. 1997-2007 The Blair/Brown System Lead on domestic policy Public spending reviews each three years Public Service Agreements between Departments and the Treasury Public Service Agreements with local authorities

5. Brown’s economic model Growth best identified at sub-regional/city scale Economic regeneration is dependent on housing and transport infrastructure in areas of success In slower growing areas, concentration on social infrastructure investment rather than physical infrastructure

6. The background to this? OECD EU’s new policy of territorial cohesion Competitive regions Spatial implications of all public policy HMT Devolved Decision Making 2 and DDM3 Sub National Review of Economic Development and Regeneration 2007

7. Devolved decision making : 2 the regions 2004 Proposed that the key to achieving change was a more localised approach Principle approach is a gap analysis about places – where are they now? Where do they need to be to punch at their weight? Policy interventions to focus on local culture to achieve change i.e. localist not universal solutions

8. Brown’s Regional Model Change in regional governance model – move to senates as part of House of Lords reform and to replace regional assemblies? Regional scrutiny – joint Parliamentary Committee Regional Development Authority rather than Agency Regional Investment Programme – Regional Funding Allocation, Infrastructure tax??

9. Devolved decision making: 3 Cities 2005 Indicated that the role of city region was the most crucial scale at which to develop the UK economy Level which worked sustainable – make best use of existing infrastructure investment City region also unit of EU comparison Cultural differences work at this scale

10. Brown’s sub-regional/city regional model Set out in sub national review of economic development and regeneration Based on economic footprint Does not relate to administrative boundaries Based on transport and economic development to be followed by planning and housing Can be extended to rest of LAA agenda

12. The Brown System - Funding LAAs – CLG CAAs MAAs - HMT Regional Funding Allocations Public Service Delivery Agreements – targets for Departments – also include actions for las

13. Issues The relationship between LAAs and MAAs – the Treasury and CLG Do Public Service Delivery Agreements include more targets? Deliver national infrastructure requirements through the new RDAs Creating sub regions based on economic footprints? Democratic arrangements for new sub-regions?

14. Some practical requirements within any local authority Increasingly local authority PLUS partners Increased role of LSP and Sustainable Community Strategy Single evidence base across la and partners Single approach to consultation and participation across la and partners Single delivery programme for LSP