Local Enterprise Partnerships - background
Local enterprise partnerships will see business and civic leaders work together to drive sustainable economic growth and create the conditions for private sector job growth in their communities. This is a real power shift away from central Government and quangos and towards local communities and the local businesses who really understand the barriers to growth in their areas.
An invitation to local authorities and businesses (PDF, 1.9 Mb) was issued by the Secretaries of State for BIS (Vince Cable) and CLG (Eric Pickles) on 29th June 2010 to leaders of Local Authorities and leaders of Business inviting them to work with the Government to help strengthen local economies.
In response the Government received proposals from the following areas to create Local Enterprise Partnerships. These were considered against the Government’s expectations regarding support from business, economic geography, local authority support, ambition and added value - the detail of which is set out in the Local Growth White Paper .
Proposals were received from the following:
- Bexley, Dartford, and Gravesham
- Birmingham and Solihull with East Staffordshire, Lichfield and Tamworth
- (The) Black Country
- Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole
- Brighton and Hove, Croydon, the Gatwick Diamond and West Sussex - Coast to Capital
- Cheshire and Warrington
- Coastal West Sussex
- County Durham
- Coventry and Warwickshire
- Cumbria
- Devon, Plymouth and Torbay
- East Anglia (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and North Essex)
- East Sussex
- Empowering Enterprise - Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
- Enterprise M3 - Covers parts of Hampshire and Surrey including Andover, Basingstoke, Aldershot, Farnnorough, Fleet, Hook and Camberley
- Fylde Coast, Lancashire
- Gatwick Diamond
- Gloucester, Swindon and Wiltshire
- Greater Cambridge & Greater Peterborough
- Greater Lincolnshire
- Greater Manchester
- Hampshire
- Heart of the South West
- Hertfordshire
- Hull, East Riding & Scarborough
- Humber
- Kent and Medway
- Kent-Essex
- Lancashire
- Leeds City Region
- Leicester and Leicestershire
- Liverpool City Region
- (The) Marches Enterprise Partnership - Shropshire and Herefordshire
- Newcastle Gateshead
- Norfolk
- North East
- North East Lincolnshire
- Northamptonshire
- Northumberland and North Tyneside
- Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Derby and Derbyshire
- Oxfordshire City Region
- (The) Peak District
- (The) Peel Group - Atlantic Gateway - Liverpool and Manchester
- Pennine Lancashire
- Sheffield City Region
- Solent
- South East England
- South East Midlands
- South Somerset and East Devon
- South Tyneside and Sunderland
- Stoke-on -Trent and Staffordshire
- Surrey Connects
- Tees Valley
- Thames Valley Berkshire
- Thames Valley Buckinghamshire
- Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce
- Visitor Economy Southern England
- West Leicestershire and Northern Warwickshire
- West Midlands
- West of England
- Worcestershire
- York and North Yorkshire
Names of the proposals given the agreement to go forward can be found on LEP contacts and Board recognition.
