City Deals

Question 1

Details

Answer 1

Between 2012-14, 26 City Deals were agreed
First wave, complete in 2012 and covered the 8 largest cities outside London

Second wave completed in 2014, next 14 largest English cities

Question 2

Reasons

Answer 2

Allow cities:
To take responsibility for decisions that affect their areas

Design their own strategies to help businesses grow

Create economic growth and how public money should be spent

Question 3

Successes

Answer 3

Delivered increased economic activity, infrastructure funding and development

Question 4

Limitations

Answer 4

A number of barriers to further local integration of employment and skills delivery remain. Due to payment by results nature of deals
Has resulted in funding for programmes and specific projects rather than creating more flexible non-ring fenced funding sources

Question 5

Example

Answer 5

Manchester ‘Working Well’ pilot implemented in 2014
Built around a payment by results mechanism which rewards service providers for achievement of employment related outcomes