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UK regional income divide barely changed over 30 years, report finds

The Resolution Foundation says gross household disposable income per person stayed higher in London at £27,900 versus Northern Ireland at £17,300 over 1997 to 2023, and local gaps persisted into 2023.

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Britain’s regional household income divide has barely moved over the past three decades, even as successive governments promised to narrow disparities, according to a report from the Resolution Foundation cited by the Guardian Economics.

The report says that from 1997 to 2023, London’s gross household disposable income per person remained higher at £27,900 compared with Northern Ireland at £17,300.

It also found the gap between the richest and poorest areas was largely unchanged, with Kensington and Chelsea at £60,584 versus Leicester at £13,398, a difference that the report says held steady for almost 30 years.

The foundation warned that entrenched inequalities persist at local levels, including that 54% of local authorities in the poorest fifth of income per person in 1997 were still in that group in 2023, while 82% of the richest places stayed at the top.

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