Local Enterprise Partnerships

House of Lords written statement – made at on 18 May 2011.

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Photo of Baroness Wilcox Baroness Wilcox The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

My honourable friend the Minister for Business and Enterprise (Mark Prisk), together with the Minister for Decentralisation (Greg Clark), has today made the following Statement.

I, together with Greg Clark, Minister of State for Decentralisation, would like to inform the House that today we have written to the proposed Gloucestershire local enterprise partnership inviting it to put in place governance arrangements.

Local enterprise partnerships see a real power shift away from central government and quangos and towards local communities and the local businesses that really understand the barriers to growth in their areas. This announcement brings the total number of partnerships so far invited to put their governance arrangements in place to 34. Taken together these represent 1.9 million or 94 per cent of all businesses (active enterprises) in England, 22 million employees (employee jobs figures) or 94 per cent of all employees in England, and a population of 49 million or 94 per cent of England's population. We will continue to work with other areas with a view to establishing further local enterprise partnerships across England.