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  2. Cumbria
  3. Tees Valley
  4. York, North Yorkshire and East Riding
  5. Lancashire
  6. Leeds City Region
  7. Liverpool City Region
  8. Greater Manchester
  9. Humber
  10. Sheffield City Region
  11. Cheshire and Warrington
  12. Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
  13. Greater Lincolnshire
  14. Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire
  15. Leicester and Leicestershire
  16. The Marches
  17. Black Country
  18. Greater Birmingham and Solihull
  19. Northamptonshire
  20. Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough
  21. New Anglia
  22. Coventry and Warwickshire
  23. Worcestershire
  24. South East Midlands
  25. Gloucestershire
  26. Hertfordshire
  27. Buckinghamshire Thames Valley
  28. Oxfordshire
  29. London
  30. Thames Valley Berkshire
  31. West of England
  32. Swindon and Wiltshire
  33. Enterprise M3
  34. South East
  35. Coast to Capital
  36. Solent
  37. Dorset
  38. Heart of the South West
  39. Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

Black Country

Background

The Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) aims to create the conditions for enterprise to flourish resulting in greater economic prosperity across the Black Country area.

It will do this through facilitation and co-ordination of actions by private, public and voluntary sector organisations with a focus on stimulating the drivers of economic development education & skills development and infrastructure & environmental enhancements.

Outcomes from these collective actions are focussed on increasing the levels of employment, improving the levels of businesses operating within the area, modernisation and diversifying the business base, up skilling across the workforce, which will all contribute to the BC LEP's Key Performance Measure of closing the Black Country's productivity gap (2010: £6bn p.a).

The Black Country LEP submission to Government in autumn 2010 identified a range of  barriers to private-sector-led economic growth and these have shaped the partnerships initial actions.

Geography

The Black Country LEP covers the local authority district areas of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

Board and Governance

Board recognised: 28/1/2011

Chair: Stewart Towe CBE

Enterprise Zone(s)

The Black Country Zone comprises a portfolio of sites situated in Darlaston and i54 - Wolverhampton North, spread over 120 hectares.

News

http://www.blackcountrylep.co.uk/default.asp?PageID=466&n=LEP+News

Key Contacts for LEP

Sarah Middleton

Phone: 01384 471102
Email: [email protected]

LEP Twitter: @BlackCountryLEP

http://www.blackcountrylep.co.uk/

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