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 26 July 2008
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Local Enterprise Growth Initiative

A Treasury Conference in Autumn 2004 consulted Whitehall departments, RDAs, local authorities and other relevant stakeholders on how we should build on the Enterprise Areas model. The outcome was a consultation document on a proposal for a Local Enterprise Growth Initiative (LEGI), issued March 2005, jointly sponsored by ODPM (now DCLG), DTI (now BERR) and HM Treasury.

The national aim of the LEGI is - "To release the productivity and economic potential of our most deprived local areas and their inhabitants through enterprise and investment - thereby boosting local incomes and employment opportunities". The aim is supported by three key outcomes: to increase total entrepreneurial activity; to support sustainable growth; and to attract appropriate inward investment and franchising.

Two rounds of LEGI have now taken place and the winners from the first and second rounds are as follows:

Round One

  • Ashfield, Bolsover and Mansfield (joint bid) £3.8m
  • Barking & Dagenham £15.5m
  • Bradford £12.4m
  • Coventry £21.4m
  • Croydon £20m
  • Easington, Derwentside, Wear Valley and Sedgefield (joint bid) £10.2m
  • Great Yarmouth £8.2m
  • Hastings £3.6m
  • South Tyneside £15.1m
  • St Helens £13.4m

Round Two

  • Blackpool £10.8m
  • Doncaster £16m
  • Leeds £15m
  • Liverpool/Sefton £21.4m
  • North East Lincolnshire £18.7m
  • Norwich £8.9m
  • Pennine Lancashire £22.3m
  • Redcar and Cleveland £10.9m
  • Sheffield £17m
  • Wansbeck £11.8m

Further information can be found on the LEGI pages of the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) website.

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