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Abstract

The UK Government has recently announced that on 4 January 2023, the new regime regulating the granting of subsidies as provided for by the Subsidy Control Act 2022, will enter into full force. 1 This new system will provide the framework for a UKwide, subsidy control so – according to the UK Government - as to enable public authorities, including devolved administrations and local authorities, to “deliver subsidies tailored to local needs; to support government priorities such as driving economic growth and to reach net zero”. 2 All extremely laudable aims but the Government is actually even too modest as the new Subsidy Control Act is much more: the new legislation is – together with the UK Internal Market Act3 – one of the most comprehensive post Brexit regulatory settlements raising all manner of possible implications and complications; it also represents one of the most extensive domestic legislative regimes in terms of control of public spending – and not to forget the role of tax ; because of the model adopted it is bound to have serious repercussions on the UK’s public law system, especially as far as the role of public authorities and judicial control are concerned. Finally, it raises crucial questions in terms of solidarity between devolved regions and central government. In short, a whole stable of Professor Birkinshaw’s hobby horses.

Publication Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Reprinted from Essays in Honour of Professor Patrick Birkinshaw, with permission of Kluwer Law International.
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain K Law
Departments:	The City Law School The City Law School > Academic Programmes The City Law School > Institute for the Study of European Laws
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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