Improving funding allocation to places for Levelling Up

这个项目的目的是研究英国政府如何在英格兰建立一个改进的公共资金分配系统，以推动水平的提高。这个项目将有助于政府的政策目标，即通过提出更好的方式在英格兰不同地方之间分配资金，以更清楚地了解资金系统和由此产生的政策问题，从而提升英国的水平。我们将通过收集关于公共资金分配的现有证据来评估英格兰的现状，并通过利益相关者参与、与国家和地方政策制定者和其他感兴趣的团体共同制作，将新知识应用于这些问题，从而实现这一点。通过这样做，我们直接解决了升级咨询委员会(LUAC)在ESRC沙坑过程中提出的三个挑战问题之一：“如何提高稀缺公共资源的分配效率，以促进升级？”其影响将是根据不同的政策改革选择为政府提供可行的经验教训，以改善资金分配机制，如果推进这些机制，将对政策、人员和地方产生积极影响。为了实现这一点，该项目将回答以下研究问题：1.英国现有哪些与12个提升任务相关的资金和资金分配方法，以及它们如何在不同的机构层面和地理规模上相互作用？2.资金方法如何影响利用地方资金以最好地满足当地需求的机会？3.权力下放对现有资金的分配和使用有什么影响？4.资金分配如何更好地与现有人员的优先事项保持一致？5.政策改革有哪些选择来改善英格兰的资金分配？

The aim of this project is to examine how the UK Government can create an improved public funding allocation system in England to drive forward Levelling Up. This project will contribute to the Government's policy goal to level up the UK by proposing better ways of allocating funding between places in England, based on a much clearer understanding of the funding system and the policy problems arising from it. We will achieve this by drawing together existing evidence on public funding allocation to assess the current landscape in England and bring new knowledge to bear on the issues via stakeholder engagement, in coproduction with national and local policymakers and other interested groups. In doing so, we directly address one of three challenge questions posed by the Levelling Up Advisory Council (LUAC) during the ESRC Sandpit process that asks: "how can allocative efficiency in the use of scarce public resources be improved to the benefit of Levelling Up?". The impact will be to provide government with actionable lessons based on different options of policy reform for improving funding allocation mechanisms that, if taken forward, will positively impact policy, people and places. To achieve this the project will answer the following research questions:1. What funds and funding allocation approaches exist in the UK relevant to the 12 Levelling Up Missions, and how do they interact at different institutional levels and geographical scales? 2. How do funding approaches impact opportunities to utilise funding in places to best meet local needs? 3. What are the implications of devolution for the allocation and use of funding in place? 4. How can funding allocation better align with the priorities of people in place? 5. What are the options for policy reform to improve funding allocation in England?