Westminster Forum Projects | Next steps for the UK subsidy control regime
Areas for
discussion include the new application and self-assessment processes and
streamlined routes, and provisions placing increased responsibility on
businesses to analyse the potential contribution of their plans to policy and
public good goals. [ I did not know that businesses had a responsibility to help achieve "public good goals"]
"The conference will also be an opportunity to discuss the role
of streamlined routes in contributing to the UK economic
growth and wider policy goals, such as the transition to net
zero".
Subsidies, or grants, have always been an important part of
the funding for councils and so this puts a good deal of pressure on them to deliver the targets and policies of the national government, even if it is not an actual legal requirement.
As the cost of achieving net zero becomes ever more
expensive these subsidies will need to keep increasing as
councils try to keep balancing their budgets while cost
pressures in other vital areas keep increasing. For example,
we are currently experiencing a housing crisis and desperately need more council homes. How will the money be found to build them if the housing budget has to be spent on achieving net zero?
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