Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 5 July 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what timetable has been set for (a) the submission of bids for local enterprise partnerships and (b) the coming into operation of local enterprise partnerships.
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State wrote jointly with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, inviting outline proposals from partnerships of local authorities and businesses, reflecting the coalition Government's agenda, as soon as possible, and no later than
As set out in the Budget, the Government will publish a White Paper later in the summer, which will set out the Government's approach to sub-national growth. Legislation to abolish RDAs and enable local enterprise partnerships was announced in the Queen's Speech and is expected to be introduced to Parliament in the autumn.
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