Burnham to dispatch 100 Whitehall officials to help regional mayors
Andy Burnham is launching a pilot program to deploy over 100 Whitehall civil servants to regional mayoral authorities to support economic growth. The initiative aims to decentralize power and improve local decision-making capacity across 18 mayoralties.
Why it matters
This represents a significant shift in UK governance, attempting to bridge the gap between central government resources and regional administrative needs.
Burnham spoke to leaders from his Manchester base about economic growth. Burnham spoke to leaders from his Manchester base about economic growth. Andy Burnham Burnham to dispatch 100 Whitehall officials to help regional mayors Civil service scheme announced after PM convened local leaders to ‘situation room’ meeting from No 10 North
Prefer the Guardian on Google Andy Burnham is to send more than 100 Whitehall officials to bolster the teams of regional mayors, after convening leaders from across England from his base at No 10 North to discuss how to spread growth.
The government described the meeting as a “situation room” to bring local and regional leaders into national decision-making.
After the call led by Burnham, the government said five to 10 civil servants would be sent to every mayoral authority for secondments of less than a year during a pilot programme in 18 mayoralties.
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