Understand the key takeaways from the Comprehensive Spending Review, focusing on the government’s levelling up agenda to reduce regional disparities across the country.
With the government repeatedly committing to levelling up across all regions, it came as no surprise that this was a key feature within the one-year Comprehensive Spending Review that Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced today.
The speech was very much caveated with the acknowledgement that the public purse is under significant pressure, and that funding continues to be directed to protecting lives and livelihoods in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
That being said, there were some positive announcements which will go some way to driving growth across