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Regional Assemblies throughout England are now in the final stage of preparing Integrated Regional Strategy Framework. The IRS Framework ensures that regional strategies and policies are not prepared in isolation but in a consistent and integrated way. This article examines the role and structure of the IRS Framework in the system of regional strategies, and investigates the way in which it integrates the regional strategies including Regional Economic Strategy and Regional Spatial Strategy. Based on the analysis of the government guidelines and planning practices of East Midlands and South East England, this article suggests some policy issues to be solved in IRS. In particular issues such as compromising visions and objectives, ex post integration, regional governance system, centralization, minority control, and delivery are discussed. Also, some policy implications of the IRS Framework are suggested for the regional comprehensive planning system in Korea.