Local Enterprise Partnerships
Local enterprise partnerships are led by local authorities and businesses across natural economic areas. They provide the vision, knowledge and strategic leadership needed to drive sustainable private sector growth and job creation in their area.
The Local Growth White Paper set out the diverse roles the local enterprise partnerships can play depending on their local priorities. These could include ensuring that planning and infrastructure investment support business needs, and working with Government to support enterprise, innovation, global trade and inward investment. By combining strong business leadership with groups of local authorities whose planning, regulatory and public realm roles are critical to growth, these bodies will be able to bring an integrated approach across real economic geographies. This will be a major step forward in fostering a strong environment for business growth.
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This list shows the 39 agreed partnerships across England, covering all but one local authority.
The boundaries in the map are those that have been agreed by Ministers based on the proposals submitted by partnerships, which were assessed using the criteria set out in the Local Growth White Paper. If a Partnership wishes to change these boundaries then they will need to demonstrate to Ministers that the new boundaries still meet the criteria.
LEP Coverage and Statistics information is available.
For the latest news on local enterprise partnerships, visit our News section.
