Aug 18 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the Times on Tuesday that Number 10 \u200cNorth, the regional government hub, will take over \u200cresponsibility for economic growth from the Treasury as part of a \u200btransfer of power out of Whitehall. <\/p>\n
Burnham in July opened the new government base in northern England, in a shift away from what he said was decades of economic \u200cdecision-making centered in \u2060London. <\/p>\n
“It is actually a huge transfer of power,” Burnham told the newspaper in an interview. “It’s \u2060something that the country has never cracked before. I don’t wish this to sound, you know, a criticism \u200bor negative \u200babout the Treasury,” he \u200badded. <\/p>\n
The prime minister, who \u200ctook office less than a month ago, has previously described the base in Manchester as being “the situation room for making Britain better – the place we use to get power out of Westminster, into the hands of people \u200cat a local level, so \u200bthat they can turn things \u200baround.” <\/p>\n
Burnham also told the \u200bTimes that British finance minister John Healey \u200csupported the approach, and would \u200boutline the \u200bgovernment’s economic strategy in a major speech next month, and a “ten-year plan” of economic and constitutional reforms \u200bwould be published \u200cafter the budget. <\/p>\n
Healey will hold his first budget \u200bon October 28. <\/p>\n
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