Yorkshire Cities news

Yorkshire Cities to commission manufacturing research

Nigel Guy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:34:00 +0000

Later this year, Yorkshire Cities will commission a project to look at the prospects for advanced manufacturing.

Yorkshire Cities Green Jobs Research Available

Nigel Guy — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:37:43 +0100

A summary report plus a suite of city-region and council profiles from this vital research project on the Prospects for Green Jobs to 2020.

Yorkshire & Humber Business Survey reports now available

Nigel Guy — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:22:00 +0100

A suite of five sub-regional reports from this major survey of local business opinion are now available to download from our website.

York & North Yorkshire LEP approved

Nigel Guy — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:57:00 +0000

The government has approved the application of York & North Yorkshire to form a Local Enterprise Partnership.

Leeds City Region announces LEP Board members

Nigel Guy — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:28:00 +0000

The Leeds City Region Partnership has revealed the membership of the Board of the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).

The Board will have 17 members, and will be chaired by Neil McLean, of the legal firm DLA Piper. The other Board members comprise a further eight people from the private sector and th

Sheffield City Region LEP Board meets for first time

Nigel Guy — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:17:00 +0000

The Board of the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) met for the first time on 20 December.

The 15-strong Board is chaired by James Newman, former Master Cutler and currently Chairman of Finance Yorkshire and Deputy Chairman of Sheffield Hallam University.

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First Local Enterprise Partnerships confirmed

Rebecca Horwood — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:36:00 +0100

28.10.10

Government today announced 24 Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) have made the cut and are to progress to the next stage of development. Business Secretary Vince Cable said:

"I was delighted that so many of the proposals for local enterprise partnerships showed real imagination and initiative a

'Local Growth' White Paper published

Rebecca Horwood — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:34:00 +0100

28.10.10

The White Paper published today sets out the Government’s role in empowering locally driven growth, encouraging business investment and promoting economic development.

Government publishes 2010 Spending Review

Rebecca Horwood — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:53:00 +0100

20.10.10

The largest spending cuts in decades were announced today by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt Hon George Osborne MP.

Yorkshire & Humber Enterprise Partnership bids submitted

Rebecca Horwood — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:40:00 +0100

Update 07.09.10

The deadline for LEP submissions passed yesterday, with 56 submissions from across the UK, including five from this region:

Hull, East Riding & Scarborough
Humber
Leeds City Region
Shef

Government departments publish Structural Reform Plans

Rebecca Horwood — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:55:00 +0100

The plans will form a key tool of the Coalition Government in bringing about the reforms set out in the Coalition Agreement.

Tackling Unemployment Study reports available to download

Rebecca Horwood — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:11:09 +0100

Yorkshire Cities has published findings from the second stage of the Strengthening Local Economies programme.

Iain Duncan Smith sets out new worklessness plans

Rebecca Horwood — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:24:00 +0100

In a recent speech the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith MP, discussed the Government's new approach to dealing with entrenched poverty and inter-generational worklessness.

Index of Economic Resilience update published today

Rebecca Horwood — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:05:05 +0100

Published today - the update of the Index of Economic Resilience for 2009-10 - available to download

New Yorkshire Cities website launched!

Rebecca Horwood — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:11:00 +0000

Welcome to the brand new Yorkshire Cities website! Please have a look around and explore the new features.