industrial strategy

• 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.

  

• Industrial strategy neglecting fortunes of ‘left-behind’ areas, think tank warns

  The Government’s decision to focus its industrial strategy on the most advanced areas of England risks neglecting the economic fortunes of the bulk of the country, think tank warns.

  

• Whitehall should invest £65m in health boards to support Industrial Strategy

  The Government's Industrial Strategy must recognise the importance of public health in economic growth, a group representing local government has warned.

  

• 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.