Agenda

12:10         Introduction by Chair (Philip Wood, Director General – Local and Regional Government Group)

12.15         Professor John Mawson, Local Government Centre, University of Warwick – Deepening democracy and the modernisation of government - reflections on emerging patterns of regional governance in the West Midlands

12.35                       Mark Sandford, Constitutional Unit, UCL – Next steps for elected regional government

12.50                   Question time

13.25                   Chair close event

13.30                   Lunch