The agenda for Cornwall Council's Cabinet on 23 September 2026 on democracy.cornwall.gov.uk has no item on devolution or a strategic authority; the items were performance, commercial strategy, the Local Plan and care and inspection reports.
Resolves on the agenda published at democracy.cornwall.gov.uk for the Cabinet meeting of 23 September 2026, usually displayed in the week before the meeting. YES if an item title contains devolution, devolution deal, devolution agreement, strategic authority or Number 10 North. A verbal update under Leader's announcements does not count. If the meeting is cancelled or moved, the market voids. If that source has not published in time, BBC News Cornwall and Cornwall Live reporting the agenda settle it.
We looked at every devolution deal England has published since 2015 for an area with no directly elected mayor. There are six, starting with Cornwall's own deal in 2015, the first for a rural county. For each we asked whether it let the area raise money itself, for example through a levy or a tax it keeps. Money sent from Whitehall to spend does not count. Deals with a mayor are left out, and so are deals that were announced but never published. None of the six gave the area a power to raise money.