1. North Eastern
  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

Greater Birmingham and Solihull

Background

GBSLEP is a partnership of businesses, local authorities and universities which supports private-sector growth and job creation. Its role is to create a globally-competitive knowledge economy, ensuring the area is recognised as Europe's natural home for entrepreneurs and wealth creators.

The LEP’s formal objectives are to promote:

  • Sustainable private sector investment and growth
  • Business efficiency and competitiveness
  • Economic development and regeneration
  • Employment

And has specific goals to:

  • Increase Gross Value Added (GVA, a measure of economic output) by 30% (£8.25bn) by 2020
  • Create 100,000 (net) private sector jobs by 2020
  • Boost indigenous and inward investment
  • Achieve global leadership in key sectors
  • Build a world class workforce

Geography

The LEP's area encompasses the Birmingham and Solihull Metropolitan Core, Southern Staffordshire and Northern Worcestershire.

Board and Governance

Chair: Andy Street

Enterprise Zone(s)

Birmingham City Centre is designated as an Enterprise Zone.

News

http://centreofenterprise.com/resources/newsroom/

Key contact

Helen Harper

Phone: 0121 303 4369
Email: [email protected]

LEP Twitter: @GBSLEP

http://centreofenterprise.com/

Birmingham City Centre Enterprise Zone Overview

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