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New Local Enterprise Partnerships: have your say

20 July 2010

The Business Innovation and Skills Select Committee has announced an Inquiry into future Local Economic Partnerships (LEPs). Submissions must be made by 13th August.

The inquiry will examine how the proposed new structures will work, alongside issues such as distribution of funding, value for money, accountability, timing, transitional arrangements and required legislation.

Eric Pickles (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government) has recently suggested (19 July 2010) that there need not be one formal structural type. They can vary.

Topics the Committee have said they will consider include:
► The functions of the new Local Enterprise Partnerships and ensuring value for money.
► The Regional Growth Fund, and funding arrangements under the LEP system.
► Government proposals for ensuring co-ordination of roles between different LEPs.
► Arrangements for co-ordinating regional economic strategy · Structure and accountability of LEPs.
► The legislative framework and timetable for converting Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) to LEPs, the transitional arrangements, and the arrangements for residual spending and liability of RDAs.
► Means of procuring funding from outside bodies (including EU funding) under the new arrangements.

For more information:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/business-innovation-and-skills/inquiries/the-new-local-enterprise-partnerships/

If you would like to work with VSNW in making a submission, please contact Warren Escadale, VSNW's Policy & Research Manager.Contact details available here: http://www.vsnw.org.uk/about/staff