Minutes:
Alex Thomason, Principal Policy Adviser, introduced this Item, noting the Governments pause on Fiscal Devolution due to other priorities – mainly Brexit dominating the political agenda. As a result, the Board had previously agreed to commission an outside consultancy for detailed econometric modelling to spell out in detail what a specific instance of fiscal devolution would look like in practice.
There then followed a confidential discussion between members of the City Regions Board, LGA officers and the outside consultancy that had been appointed.