The leading places in terms of increases in total disposable income were Brighton, with 8.1%, Worthing, London, Barnsley and Warrington.<\/p>\n
Had cities and towns in the West Midlands experienced the same rate of growth in disposable income in real terms as top performers, residents would have pocketed \u00a33,500 more per person on average.<\/p>\n
The Stoke-on-Trent figure of \u00a35,500 that residents missed out on was the highest in the West Midlands, with Coventry second on \u00a34,900, which was described by the researchers as the cumulative extra disposable income per resident if Coventry “matched average growth of cities achieving ‘greater prosperity'”. <\/p>\n
Birmingham City Council leader John Cotton said cities like his “must be at the very heart of the drive for economic growth, if we are going to lift UK standards of living, tackle poverty and create jobs for our growing populations”. <\/p>\n
Birmingham was “one of the most investable cities, with some of the biggest opportunities in the country”, he added.<\/p>\n
Centre for Cities said it identified key areas for delivering faster living standards growth, including giving households “better access to the opportunities of growth, by encouraging more people into work, providing skills support, and improving transport links”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The leading places in terms of increases in total disposable income were Brighton, with 8.1%, Worthing, London, Barnsley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-391237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}