Local Enterprise Partnerships
The Secretaries of State for BIS (Vince Cable) and CLG (Eric Pickles) have written to leaders of Local Authorities and leaders of Business inviting them to work with the Government to help strengthen local economies.
Following the LEPS letter of 29 June 2010 to Local Authorities, the Secretaries of State of BIS and CLG received expressions of interest from the following areas to create Local Enterprise Partnerships.
Northumberland and North Tyneside
Newcastle Gateshead
South Tyneside and Sunderland
County Durham
Tees Valley
Cumbria
Lancashire
Pennine Lancashire
Fylde Coast, Lancashire
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Cheshire and Warrington
The Peel Group - Atlantic Gateway - Liverpool and Manchester
York and North Yorkshire
Hull, East Riding & Scarborough
Leeds City Region
Humber
Sheffield City Region
Greater Lincolnshire
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Derby and Derbyshire
Leicester and Leicestershire
Northamptonshire
Stoke-on -Trent and Staffordshire
The Black Country
Birmingham and Solihull with East Staffordshire, Lichfield and Tamworth
Coventry and Warwickshire
The Marches Enterprise Partnership - Shropshire and Herefordshire
Worcestershire
East Anglia (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and North Essex)
Norfolk
Greater Cambridge & Greater Peterborough
South East Midlands
Hertfordshire
Bexley, Dartford, and Gravesham
Brighton and Hove, Croydon, the Gatwick Diamond and West Sussex - Coast to Capital
East Sussex
Gatwick Diamond
Hampshire
Kent and Medway
Kent-Essex
Enterprise M3 - Covers parts of Hampshire and Surrey including Andover, Basingstoke, Aldershot, Farnnorough, Fleet, Hook and Camberley
Oxfordshire City Region
Solent
Surrey Connects
Thames Valley Berkshire
Thames Valley Buckinghamshire
Gloucester, Swindon and Wiltshire
West of England
Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole
South Somerset and East Devon
Heart of the South West
Devon, Plymouth and Torbay
Empowering Enterprise - Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
North East
The Peak District
West Leicestershire and Northern Warwickshire
West Midlands
Visitor Economy Southern England
South East England
North East Lincolnshire
Coastal West Sussex
Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce
For more information please email localenterprisepartnerships@bis.gsi.gov.uk .
