The 29 bids for a second wave of 10 Enterprise Zone are as follows:

Local Enterprise Partnership	Enterprise Zone Proposal
Cheshire and Warrington	Omega - an outstanding business location for Cheshire and Warrington
Coast to Capital	Enterprise@BognorRegis
Cornwall & Isle of Scilly	Newquay AeroHub Enterprise Zone
Coventry & Warwickshire	Coventry & Warwickshire Gateway
Cumbria	Fuelling the Future - Cumbria Enterprise Zone
Derby Derbyshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire	Markham Vale Growth Zone
East Sussex, Essex, Kent, Medway, Southend and Thurrock	Discovery Park, Sandwich, Kent
East Sussex, Essex, Kent	Enterprise West Essex @ Harlow
Enterprise M3	Enterprise Zone M3
GFirst Local Enterprise Partnership	Gloucestershire Enterprise Zone
Greater Birmingham and Solihull	Greater Birmingham and Solihull Enterprise Belt
Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough	Alconbury Business Campus
Greater Lincolnshire	South Humber Bank Gateway Enterprise Zone
Heart of the South West	Energised, Advanced, Inspired: Plymouth's Enterprise Zone for the Heart of the South West
Heart of the South West	Heart of the South West Low Carbon Energy Enterprise Zone
Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire Enterprise Zone @ Maylands
Humber	Humber Renewable Energy Super Cluster
Lancashire	The Lancashire AEM (Advanced Engineering & Manufacturing) Enterprise Zone
Leicester and Leicestershire	MIRA Technology Park
London	Upper Lee Valley
London	Croydon
Marches	Marches Enterprise Zone
New Anglia	Energy for New Anglia
Oxfordshire	Science Vale UK Gateway Zone
Solent	The Solent Enterprise Zone at Daedalus
South East Midlands	Northampton Waterside
Stoke and Staffordshire	North Staffordshire Enterprise Zone
Worcestershire	South Kidderminster Advanced Manufacturing and Business Park
York and North Yorkshire	The Yorkshire Coast Enterprise Zone

Contact info for areas not yet in a LEP

Contact name/description	Contact details
Other economic partnership Swindon	Organisation: Forward Swindon Main contact: Ian Piper, Chief Executive Tel: 01793 429256 Email: ianpiper@forwardswindon.co.uk
Other economic partnership Surrey	Organisation: Surrey Economic Partnership/Surrey Connects Main contact: Mark Pearson CEO/Surrey Economic Partnership Tel 01483 685230 Mobile 07855 387 422 Email : mark@surreyeconomicpartnership.org
Other economic partnership Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset	Main contact: Adrian Trevett Economic Development Manager, Borough of Poole Tel: 01202 633032 Email: a.trevett@poole.gov.uk
Other economic partnership Buckinghamshire	Organisation: Buckinghamshire Business First Main Contact : Alex Pratt Address: The Saunderton Estate, Wycombe Road, Saunderton, Bucks HP14 4BF Tel: 01494 568937 Website: http://www.bbf.uk.com/ Email: : info@bbf.uk.com

LEP Capacity Fund: Who got what?

I have sourced this via desk research and other informal means.  If something is wrong or you would like me to add anything in just let me know.  Please also note that  no partnership has received in excess of £48k.

M3 Enterprise awarded £9,000

Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP was awarded £48,000

Cumbria LEP awarded £25,350

Greater Manchester LEP received £15,000

Oxfordshire LEP awarded £15,000

Hertfordshire LEP given £25,000

The Marches LEP awarded £45,000

Sheffield City Region LEP allocated £20,000

Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire LEP awarded £48,000

West of England LEP given £20,000

The D2N2 LEP received £48,000 from the LEP Capacity Fund

Lincolnshire £48,000 from the fund

Solent £25,000

GLA £10,000 http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/greater-london-authority/directors-decisions/dd514 

BIS LEP contact info

 BIS local relationship managers

Area	LEPs	Contact (email – firstname.lastname@bis.gsi.gov.uk)
East and South East Midlands	D2N2; Lincolnshire	Maria Lyle (tel – 01159712552)
	Leicester and Leicestershire; South East Midlands	Will Morlidge (tel – 01159712563)
London and East	Hertfordshire	Peter Northover (tel – 01223372693)
	London; Kent, Essex and East Sussex	Iain McNab (tel – 020 7215 3295)
	New Anglia	Lisa Roberts (tel – 01223372647)
	Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough	Kevin Jones (tel – 01223372563)
North West	Cheshire & Warrington; Greater Manchester	Martin Wood (tel – 01612610305)
	Cumbria; Liverpool City Region; Lancashire	Ian Hamilton (tel – 01612610369)
South Central and West	Cornwall and IoS; Heart of the South West	Sally Edgington (tel – 07776457708)
	Oxfordshire; TV Berkshire; Coast to Capital	Clare Marett (tel – 01483884838)
	West of England; Gloucestershire	Paul Shand (tel – 07748180119)
	Enterprise M3; Solent	Angela Alderman (tel – 01483882382)
West Midlands	Stoke and Staffs; Black Country; The Marches	Kevin Postones (tel – 07769671058)
	Coventry and Warwickshire; Greater B’ham and Solihull; Worcestershire	Ian Smith (tel – 07825850953)
Yorkshire and Humber and North East	Leeds City Region; York and North Yorkshire	Lorraine Coates (tel – 07825841832)
	North Eastern	Adrian Coates (tel – 07825841834)
	Tees Valley Unlimited	Margaret Coates (tel – 07825841835)
	Sheffield City Region	Peter Campey (tel – 07825841831)

Areas not covered by LEPs	Contact (email – firstname.lastname@bis.gsi.gov.uk)
Surrey Buckinghamshire	Ian Coates (tel – 01483882350)
Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset	Angela Alderman (tel – 01483882382)
Hull and Humber	Peter Campey (tel – 01333412652)

Everything you need to know about each LEP... contact and priorities (where avaliable)

Please see June 2012 version for up to date information

LEPs: what does success look like?

We have 34 LEPs in place and 12 Boards appointed (all with private sector Chair’s) http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/economic-development/leps/lep-contact-details with more to follow.

The next job is prioritisation of issues and identifying what it is the LEP will do.  Any of us who have seen a central government presentation on LEPs will have got the message loud and clear that LEPs should focus on a few priorities and have an impact. 

Many LEPs will be using their local authority produced (recently completed) Local Economic Assessment (and other evidence) as well as capacity funding to understand local issues.  The LEP will not be able to tackle all of the issues.  It will have to focus. 

Strategic local issues will be the priority, for example: infrastructure; transport; broadband; sector prioritisation; nuclear, international trade / exports, new business formation, renewables etc obviously this will be different for each LEP and will depend upon if an area is for example a city region, rural, one county or many, demographics etc BUT also what can a LEP hope to influence and what funding / other resources might be available to do this.

So this brings me to the question of who will be doing the delivery?  There is no point of having strategic objectives if you cannot deliver these objectives (or at least influence others to deliver your objectives).

I have been doing some thinking about how the strategic objectives and delivery fit together.  How will a LEP prove it’s ‘successful’ if it doesn’t deliver anything?  But should LEPs be involved in delivery? 

Perhaps the answers to these questions will be different depending upon which LEP you are in…

As Local Authorities are on LEP Boards (generally a 50/50 public private split) it seems that they will be the / a delivery vehicle?  The interest on LinkedIn (numerous groups including ‘Local Enterprise Partnerships’ and ‘From RDA to LEP’) and Communities of Practice http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk/welcome.do especially ‘Local Enterprise Partnership’ group have high public sector interest.  This is where the LA officers share best practice, presumably this is then used to inform LEP Board reports.   The relationship between the public and private sector within the LEP (outside of the Board) does not seem to be clear.  Events about LEPs don’t seem to satisfy both audiences.  The public sector is engaged (economic development and others) as it is their job, but there is a long way to go to ensure business is engaged (businesses need to know how to do this, what is required from them and what they get out of it). 

LEPs do not and were never intended to replace RDAs entirely.  The LEP role is not yet fixed and it is likely that their role is still to develop with more policy areas coming under their remit e.g. transport?

Interest in LEPs is high but for many different reasons.  There needs to be strategic coordination (LEP chairs to meet to discover opportunities for synergy and to raise issues to BIS etc) and well as practitioner coordination (who is doing what well and how).  This is difficult in a competitive environment.

Individual LEP success will be about if they achieve their (local) objectives. 

For now:

• Understand your local area (using evidence)
• Prioritise the local issues
• Define the LEPs objectives
• Communicate and involve the private sector in this process
• Deliver or facilitate delivery to impact on these objectives
• Check what other LEPs are doing (not just your geographical neighbours), are there any opportunities here?

Many of you will have given this more thought.  Do Share.

Regional Growth Fund round one cannot be used as a measure of a LEPs success

Yesterday I notice a number of articles / twitter comments which suggest that business has no confidence in LEPs and blames the LEP for its areas failure to secure Regional Growth Fund (RGF) e.g. http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/52809-emda-revival-through-communicate-east-midlands/

There seem to be a few issues around this fund which I will try to clear up.

BIS states:

The objective of the RGF is to stimulate private sector investment by providing support for projects that offer significant potential for long term economic growth and the creation of additional sustainable private sector jobs.

The fund aims particularly to help support those areas and communities that are currently dependent on the public sector to make the transition to private sector led growth and prosperity.

So it is about jobs and growth BUT with a focus on areas that have been disproportionately hit by the public sector cuts.  The north of England was always going to do better from the RGF than the South.  The fund is competitive and was never intended to be equally spread through the regions.  The fund was also heavily oversubscribed; 464 bids were received with a combined total value of £2.78 bn (twice the value of the total fund). In fact it was so over subscribed that the amount of funding invested in the first round was nearly twice as much as the government had originally suggested (£450m to support 50 project).

Bids have to be from Private sector companies or public/private partnerships – note it is private sector led.

No LEP was in a position to bid for the RGF first round (contract had to be with a legal entity).  The RGF round one closed on the 21^st January, the first LEP Boards were not recognised until the 28^th January http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/economic-development/leps/lep-contact-details

First round success has been reported by LEP area http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2011-05-19a.54051.h as well as a full list of winners http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/economic-development/regional-growth-fund/regional-growth-fund-round-1-analysis (subject to due diligence) however the LEPs themselves are very unlikely to have been involved in any of the bids.  

The first round of the RGF cannot be used as an indicator of the success of a LEP.  

LEPs (as a public private partnership) will be eligible to bid for RGF round two.  HOWEVER it is very difficult to compare LEP areas, not only are they different in terms of demography / geography they will not have comparable priorities.