The functions and responsibilities covered by Local Enterprise Partnerships include planning and housing, local transport and infrastructure priorities, employment and enterprise and the transition to the low carbon economy. Other former RDA functions such as responsibility for attracting inward investment, innovation, business support, strategic finance and sector support are now supposed to be undertaken at national level. The TUC’s overall impression, based on the experience of regional TUC’s, is that LEPs have struggled to make their mark and at best have carried forward a minor part of the work being taken forward by Regional Development Agencies.
This paper looks at the future of LEPs and the possible roles for trade unions in this new structure which is expected to deliver economic revival in this country
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