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UK Budget 2025: Devolution, sub-national and devolved nations development perspectives

David Marlow

  • 8th December 2025
  • England & Wales Northern Ireland Scotland
  • 13 mins read

This briefing explains the Autumn Budget 2025 for England and the UK’s devolution journey. It describes integrated settlements for MSAs, how these differ from the offers to non-MSA areas and devolved nations, and what this means for the evolving landscape of sub-national development. It also considers whether integrated settlements represent authentic devolution or a new form of central oversight, and the unresolved questions about capacity, capability and fiscal autonomy.

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