Then we also had the Regional Development Agencies, abolished by the coalition.It was really AGMA before the GMCA it wasn't MCC, it was all ten.
You need to be a mayoral authority to get devolved funding and there are loads of others in the country. There was regen monies before that like Pathfinder 20 years ago, Oldham/Rochdale did it first before the Manchester/Salford one and it was nothing to do with MCC.