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Sep 23, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🗣️In this morning’s #MiniBudget, the Chancellor announced the Government’s intentions to establish up to 38 Investment Zones with tax breaks for businesses.
🗨️Read on for an immediate response from Director of Policy and Research @Paul_Swinney. #InvestmentZones #GrowthPlan
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1/ Successful investment zones will need to house high-productivity firms that offer well-paying jobs for skilled workers.
Oct 15, 2020 • 32 tweets • 7 min read
We're about to begin our #CityHorizons with Andy Haldane, Chair of the Industrial Strategy Council.
He'll be talking about levelling up, Covid-19, local economies and productivity.
If you're not joining us on Zoom follow here 👇
He begins by explaining the UK's regional income disparities. As you can see, London leads the rest of the UK.
Oct 15, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
New data added to our #GreaterManchester Recovery Tracker reveals tighter #COVID19 restrictions didn't lead to large falls in footfall in September 👣
It had recovered only 51% of its pre-lockdown levels of activity, which corresponds to a two-percentage point increase compared to last month 🛍️🍽️
Oct 14, 2020 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Less than a fifth of workers are back in offices 🚉💼🏙️
@ValentineQuinio analysed the latest worker footfall data 👣 added to our #HighStreets Recovery Tracker last week.
Here are the key takeaways 👇 centreforcities.org/blog/high-stre…
Averaged across all 63 largest city and town centres in the UK, by the end of September worker footfall was at 1⃣9⃣% of pre-lockdown levels, which only represents a 2⃣-percentage point increase compared to a month ago.
As the #COVID19 pandemic sends shockwaves through the labour market, we're tracking the latest #unemployment claim stats across the UK's cities and largest towns.
Explore the tool to compare the picture across local labour markets 👇 centreforcities.org/data/uk-unempl…
Today's @ONS Claimant Count statistics have been crunched by our resident labour market expert @MagriniElena and added to our new tracker.
