{"id":8219,"date":"2019-07-02T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2019-07-08T14:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T13:02:42","slug":"global-devolution-sapporo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/international-cooperation\/global-devolution-sapporo\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Devolution: Sapporo City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An independent report by a former UK Deputy Prime Minister has cited the case of Sapporo City in Japan as a leading example of global best practice in city region devolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lord Heseltine\u2019s report <em><a href=\"https:\/\/englishcitiesmichaelheseltine.premediastudio.com\/MichaelHeseltine\/page_1.html\">Empowering English Cities<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>(PDF), commissioned by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and backed by six English Metro Mayors, sets out a series of proposals to boost city regions and devolve further funding and powers from government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report draws on the example of Sapporo, which is Japan&#8217;s fifth-largest city and a cluster for ICT, digital and biotech firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details please see the WMCA press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmca.org.uk\/news\/lord-heseltine-give-metro-mayors-greater-powers-to-deliver-housing-skills-and-jobs\/\">here<\/a>.  JLGC is not responsible for the content of external websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An independent report by a former UK Deputy Prime Minister has cited the case of Sapporo City in Japan as a leading example of global best practice in city region devolution. Lord Heseltine\u2019s report Empowering English Cities&nbsp;(PDF), commissioned by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and backed by six English Metro Mayors, sets out a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-cooperation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8222,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions\/8222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}