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A functional region is a territorial unit resulting from the organisation of social and
By 2007 Labour had reduced public sector borrowing slightly below the level it inherited from the Conservatives. And more of that borrowing was being used to finance investment rather than the day-to-day running costs of the public sector. Labour had also reduced public sector debt below the level it had inherited
economic relations that is characterised by high frequency of intra-regional interactions. This uniform
territorial unit often presents an important platform for development strategies of the country or
region, and should combine different functions and their interactions on different scales. For their
delineation one may consider different methods and different directly or indirectly geo-referenced
data, such as population flows, trade in goods and services, communications, traffic flows, service
connections, newspaper circulation, financial flows, etc. From the mentioned interactions, the daily
interaction in the labour market can be considered as a good approximation for the functional region,
and as such is used in most European countries

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By 2007 Labour had reduced public sector borrowing slightly below the level it inherited from the Conservatives. And more of that borrowing was being used to finance investment rather than the day-to-day running costs of the public sector. Labour had also reduced public sector debt below the level it had inherited