City Region

Statutory City Region Pilot
In April 2009 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the Manchester and Leeds City Regions had been selected as the two pilot statutory city regions. 

The aim of the pilot is to see how Central Government giving groups of local authorities additional freedoms and flexibilities can help them better drive economic growth and contribute to sustainable development.  It will help us to tailor programmes at a local level to meet our own economic, social and environmental needs and to have a direct and more dynamic hand in the future of our city region.