Local Enterprise Partnerships

• Ministers to 'super charge' LEP performance

  Ministers have published plans to ‘super charge’ the performance and accountability of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) following a review.

  

• Hawthorne: Local industrial strategies could go same way as devolution

  Parts of the country could be left behind when Whitehall rolls out its local industrial strategies, a senior Local Government Association (LGA) figure has warned.

  

• Government oversight of LEPs not good enough, MPs say

  The Public Accounts Committee has stressed its lack of faith in the Government’s oversight of local enterprise partnerships in a critical report published today.

  

• LEP moves to become 'most transparent' in England

  A local enterprise partnership (LEP) that had funding restrictions slapped on it by the Government has approved transparency measures that go beyond national guidance.

  

• Industrial Strategy snubs councils

  Business secretary Greg Clark has snubbed councils and empowered local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) in the Government’s long-awaited Industrial Strategy.