Throwing the baby out with the bath water? The impact of coalition reforms on identifying sub-national transport priorities in England

Stafford, Ian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0668-643X and Ayres, Sarah 2013. Throwing the baby out with the bath water? The impact of coalition reforms on identifying sub-national transport priorities in England. Local Government Studies 39 (1) , pp. 133-155. 10.1080/03003930.2012.688035

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Abstract

The coalition government has set out plans to dismantle the regional tier and return powers to localities and Whitehall departments. These changes will have significant implications for the way in which transport policy is formulated and delivered in England. When in power, New Labour introduced a range of measures to strengthen governance arrangements for promoting a more joined-up and decentralised approach to transport policy, including Regional Funding Allocations (RFAs). This paper examines the opportunities and limitations of the RFA process and considers the consequences of removing these regional structures for transport policy in England. We conclude that important progress made in recent years to develop effective arrangements for identifying transport priorities at the sub-national tier could be derailed by the Coalition's intention to remove regional governance structures in their entirety.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD) Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Regions, localism, transport policy, regional funding allocations, England
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0300-3930
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 09:02
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/30425

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