In England, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) are voluntary partnerships between local authorities and businesses, set up in 2011 by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to help determine local economic priorities and lead economic growth and job creation within the local area.[1] They carry out some of the functions previously carried out by the regional development agencies which were abolished in March 2012. In certain areas, funding is received from the UK government via growth deals.
After the March 2017 merger of Northamptonshire LEP into South East Midlands LEP, there were 38 local enterprise partnerships in operation.
The government plans to withdraw support for the partnerships in 2024.[2]
The abolition of regional development agencies and the creation of local enterprise partnerships were announced as part of the June 2010 United Kingdom budget.[3] On 29 June 2010 a letter was sent from the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to local authority and business leaders, inviting proposals to replace regional development agencies in their areas by 6 September 2010.[4] On 7 September 2010, details were released of 56 proposals for local enterprise partnerships that had been received.[5] On 6 October 2010, during the Conservative Party Conference, it was revealed that 22 had been given the provisional 'green light' to proceed and others might later be accepted with amendments.[6] 24 bids were announced as successful on 28 October 2010.[7][8]
LEPs were set up on a voluntary basis without any public funding and struggled to make progress. A report by Michael Heseltine in October 2012, No Stone Unturned, was largely accepted by Government, and proposed delegating certain funds from central government to LEPs. Changes included:
allocating a share of a £1,400m Local Growth Fund to generate growth, through competitive bidding;
getting LEPs to draw up plans for local growth as the basis for negotiation on the money in the Fund
realigning the management of the EU Structural and Investment Funds in England to follow the plans made by LEPs.
Local growth deals, for projects that benefit the local area and economy, began to be made to some LEPs in 2014.[10]
List of LEPsedit
Local enterprise partnership areas are allowed to overlap, so a local authority is permitted to be part of more than one local enterprise partnership.[note 1][11] Currently there are 38 local enterprise partnerships in operation:
^The local authority areas taking part in two LEPs are Aylesbury Vale, Barnsley, Bassetlaw, Bolsover, Bromsgrove, Cannock Chase, Cherwell, Chesterfield, Croydon, Derbyshire Dales, East Hampshire, East Staffordshire, Forest Heath, Harrogate, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Lewes, Lichfield, New Forest, North East Derbyshire, North East Lincolnshire, North Hertfordshire, North Lincolnshire, Redditch, St Edmundsbury, Tamworth, Test Valley, Uttlesford, Winchester, Wyre Forest and York.
^"Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones". GOV.UK. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
^"Government plans to abolish leps". 15 March 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^Mark Hoban (22 June 2010). Budget 2010(PDF). HM Treasury. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
^"Local enterprise partnerships". Department of Communities and Local Government. 29 June 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
^Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (7 September 2010). . News Distribution Service. Archived from the original on 13 September 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2010. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
^Allister Hayman (6 October 2010). "LEPs: 22 bald men fighting over a comb?". Local Government Chronicle. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
^"Live blog: Sub-national economic growth white paper". 28 October 2010. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
^Allister Hayman (7 September 2010). "The geography of LEPs: final list". Local Government Chronicle. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
^"Cities' economic power unlocked in radical power shift". GOV.UK.
^"Local Growth Deals". GOV.UK. 9 March 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
^Colin Marrs (27 August 2010). "Array of LEP proposals emerge in Yorkshire". Regen.net. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
^ ab"LEP Welcomes Rutland County Council". www.greaterlincolnshirelep.co.uk. Greater Lincolnshire LEP. 11 May 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
^ ab"Ties Strengthened in LEP Reorganisation". www.greaterlincolnshirelep.co.uk. Greater Lincolnshire LEP. 22 May 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
^. Archived from the original on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
External linksedit
The LEP Network
Embeddable map of all the LEPs
January 01, 1970
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In England local enterprise partnerships LEPs are voluntary partnerships between local authorities and businesses set up in 2011 by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills to help determine local economic priorities and lead economic growth and job creation within the local area 1 They carry out some of the functions previously carried out by the regional development agencies which were abolished in March 2012 In certain areas funding is received from the UK government via growth deals After the March 2017 merger of Northamptonshire LEP into South East Midlands LEP there were 38 local enterprise partnerships in operation The government plans to withdraw support for the partnerships in 2024 2 Contents 1 History 1 1 City deals 1 2 Growth deals 2 List of LEPs 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksHistory editThe abolition of regional development agencies and the creation of local enterprise partnerships were announced as part of the June 2010 United Kingdom budget 3 On 29 June 2010 a letter was sent from the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills to local authority and business leaders inviting proposals to replace regional development agencies in their areas by 6 September 2010 4 On 7 September 2010 details were released of 56 proposals for local enterprise partnerships that had been received 5 On 6 October 2010 during the Conservative Party Conference it was revealed that 22 had been given the provisional green light to proceed and others might later be accepted with amendments 6 24 bids were announced as successful on 28 October 2010 7 8 LEPs were set up on a voluntary basis without any public funding and struggled to make progress A report by Michael Heseltine in October 2012 No Stone Unturned was largely accepted by Government and proposed delegating certain funds from central government to LEPs Changes included allocating a share of a 1 400m Local Growth Fund to generate growth through competitive bidding getting LEPs to draw up plans for local growth as the basis for negotiation on the money in the Fund realigning the management of the EU Structural and Investment Funds in England to follow the plans made by LEPs City deals edit The LEP areas of Greater Birmingham and Solihull Greater Manchester Leeds City Region North Eastern Sheffield City Region and West of England were included in the first wave of city deals in 2012 9 Growth deals edit Local growth deals for projects that benefit the local area and economy began to be made to some LEPs in 2014 10 List of LEPs editLocal enterprise partnership areas are allowed to overlap so a local authority is permitted to be part of more than one local enterprise partnership note 1 11 Currently there are 38 local enterprise partnerships in operation Partnership Areas Black Country 3 West Midlands part Dudley Sandwell Walsall Wolverhampton Buckinghamshire 4 note 2 Buckinghamshire all Cheshire and Warrington 5 Cheshire East unitary Cheshire West and Chester unitary Warrington unitary Coast to Capital 6 note 2 Brighton and Hove unitary East Sussex part LewesGreater London part CroydonSurrey part Epsom and Ewell Mole Valley Reigate and Banstead TandridgeWest Sussex all Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 7 Cornwall unitary Isles of Scilly unitary Coventry and Warwickshire 8 Warwickshire all West Midlands part Coventry Cumbria 9 Cumbria all D2N2 10 note 2 Derby unitary Derbyshire all Nottingham unitary Nottinghamshire all Dorset 11 Bournemouth unitary Dorset all Poole unitary Enterprise M3 12 note 2 Hampshire part Basingstoke and Deane East Hampshire Hart New Forest Rushmoor Test Valley WinchesterSurrey part Elmbridge Guildford Runnymede Spelthorne Surrey Heath Waverley Woking GFirst 13 Gloucestershire all Greater Birmingham and Solihull 14 note 2 Staffordshire part Cannock Chase East Staffordshire Lichfield TamworthWest Midlands part Birmingham SolihullWorcestershire part Bromsgrove Redditch Wyre Forest Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Business Board part of combined authority 15 note 2 note 3 needs update Cambridgeshire all Essex part UttlesfordHertfordshire part North HertfordshireNorfolk part King s Lynn and West NorfolkSuffolk part Forest Heath St EdmundsburyPeterborough unitary Previously Rutland unitary 12 Greater Lincolnshire 16 note 2 Lincolnshire all North Lincolnshire unitary North East Lincolnshire unitary Rutland from May 2020 12 Greater Manchester Business Board part of combined authority 17 Greater Manchester all Heart of the South West 18 Devon all Somerset all Hertfordshire 19 note 2 Hertfordshire all Humber 20 East Riding of Yorkshire unitary Kingston upon Hull unitary Previously North East Lincolnshire unitary 13 Previously North Lincolnshire unitary 13 Lancashire 21 Lancashire all Blackburn with Darwen unitary Blackpool unitary Leeds City Region part of combined authority 22 note 2 needs update West Yorkshire all North Yorkshire part Leicester and Leicestershire 23 Leicester unitary Leicestershire all Liverpool City Region part of combined authority 24 Halton unitary Merseyside all London Enterprise Panel part of devolved authority 25 note 2 note 4 14 Greater London all New Anglia 26 note 2 Norfolk all Suffolk all North East 27 County Durham unitary Northumberland unitary Tyne and Wear all Oxfordshire 28 note 2 Oxfordshire all South Yorkshire 29 note 5 note 2 part of combined authority needs update Derbyshire part Bolsover Chesterfield Derbyshire Dales North East DerbyshireNottinghamshire part BassetlawSouth Yorkshire all Solent 30 note 2 Hampshire part East Hampshire Eastleigh Fareham Gosport Havant New Forest Test Valley WinchesterIsle of Wight unitary Portsmouth unitary Southampton unitary South East 31 note 2 East Sussex all Essex all Kent all Medway unitary Southend on Sea unitary Thurrock unitary South East Midlands 32 note 2 Bedford unitary Buckinghamshire part Aylesbury ValeCentral Bedfordshire unitary Luton unitary Milton Keynes unitary Northamptonshire all Oxfordshire part Cherwell Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire 33 note 2 Staffordshire all Stoke on Trent unitary Swindon and Wiltshire 34 Swindon unitary Wiltshire unitary Tees Valley part of combined authority 35 Darlington unitary Hartlepool unitary Middlesbrough unitary Redcar and Cleveland unitary Stockton on Tees unitary Thames Valley Berkshire 36 Bracknell Forest unitary Reading unitary Slough unitary West Berkshire unitary Windsor and Maidenhead unitary Wokingham unitary The Marches 37 Herefordshire unitary Shropshire unitary Telford and Wrekin unitary West of England part of combined authority 38 Bath and North East Somerset unitary Bristol unitary North Somerset unitary South Gloucestershire unitary Worcestershire 39 note 2 Worcestershire all York and North Yorkshire 40 note 2 North Yorkshire all York unitary See also editLocal government in England History of local government in England Local strategic partnership Local transport bodies Combined authorityNotes edit The local authority areas taking part in two LEPs are Aylesbury Vale Barnsley Bassetlaw Bolsover Bromsgrove Cannock Chase Cherwell Chesterfield Croydon Derbyshire Dales East Hampshire East Staffordshire Forest Heath Harrogate King s Lynn and West Norfolk Lewes Lichfield New Forest North East Derbyshire North East Lincolnshire North Hertfordshire North Lincolnshire Redditch St Edmundsbury Tamworth Test Valley Uttlesford Winchester Wyre Forest and York a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Overlaps with other LEPs Formerly Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough 1 Advisory role only economic functions are the responsibility of the Mayor of London Formerly Sheffield City Region 2 References edit Local Enterprise Partnerships LEPs and Enterprise Zones GOV UK Retrieved 24 April 2020 Government plans to abolish leps 15 March 2023 Retrieved 8 May 2023 Mark Hoban 22 June 2010 Budget 2010 PDF HM Treasury Archived from the original PDF on 15 October 2012 Retrieved 7 October 2010 Local enterprise partnerships Department of Communities and Local Government 29 June 2010 Retrieved 7 October 2010 Department for Business Innovation and Skills 7 September 2010 New Local Enterprise Partnerships criss cross the country News Distribution Service Archived from the original on 13 September 2010 Retrieved 7 October 2010 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a author has generic name help Allister Hayman 6 October 2010 LEPs 22 bald men fighting over a comb Local Government Chronicle Retrieved 7 October 2010 Live blog Sub national economic growth white paper 28 October 2010 Retrieved 28 October 2010 Allister Hayman 7 September 2010 The geography of LEPs final list Local Government Chronicle Retrieved 7 October 2010 Cities economic power unlocked in radical power shift GOV UK Local Growth Deals GOV UK 9 March 2017 Retrieved 2 January 2021 Colin Marrs 27 August 2010 Array of LEP proposals emerge in Yorkshire Regen net Retrieved 7 October 2010 a b LEP Welcomes Rutland County Council www greaterlincolnshirelep co uk Greater Lincolnshire LEP 11 May 2020 Retrieved 13 November 2021 a b Ties Strengthened in LEP Reorganisation www greaterlincolnshirelep co uk Greater Lincolnshire LEP 22 May 2020 Retrieved 13 November 2021 London Enterprise Panel Greater London Authority Archived from the original on 15 August 2012 Retrieved 1 September 2012 External links editThe LEP Network Embeddable map of all the LEPs Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Local enterprise partnership amp oldid 1214576990, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
