Abolition and Replacement
On 17 July 2007 the UK government published the Review of Sub-National Economic Development and Regeneration. The review brought forward the Government's plans to alter the structure of regional governance in England known as the Single Regional Strategy. The impact of the review will be that the "Regional Assemblies in their current form and function will not continue" and that the Regional Development Agencies will be given "executive responsibility for developing the single regional strategy".
The Regional Assemblies were abolished in 2010 with their executive functions transferring to the Regional Development Agencies. Local authorities will be given an increased role in scrutiny at the regional level including scrutiny of Regional Strategies and the RDAs through participation in new Local Authority Leaders' Boards which will be established in each region. The two bodies will now jointly produce new single regional strategies, with Ministers exercising an oversight function.
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