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Centre for Cities
@CentreforCities
The Centre for Cities is an independent think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns
Jun 12 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
NEW REPORT | Climbing the summit: UK vs G7 cities ⛰️

This latest report explores the gap between British cities and their peers in the G7.

The UK an outlier in the G7 because its ‘second cities’ lag well behind their peers.

Read the full report 👇
loom.ly/DP0mi1s The UK should set its sights on being the second most prosperous country in the G7, overtaking Germany.

📉 But its second cities are dragging down economic productivity.

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Jun 5 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Constituency of the day: Clacton 🔎

Ahead of the #GeneralElection what can the data tell us about the economic context for constituencies in England and Wales?

Using our brand new data tool we took a closer look at Clacton 🧵👇 Image Clacton is a constituency in a relatively rural area, gross incomes are both behind the England and Wales average but also its peer group average too.

Residents often look elsewhere for jobs – at 0.48 its jobs per resident are well below even the deep rural average.

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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
👇👇 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 👣

centreforcities.org/blog/how-are-l… By the end of September, #Manchester city centre still lagged behind other local centres🐝

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.

centreforcities.org/blog/high-stre…
Oct 13, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
🚨 NEW DATA TOOL 🚨

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.

📊 Data available on all our cities and large towns from Sept 2019 - Sept 2020.
centreforcities.org/data/uk-unempl…