What is it about?
The policy shift to Local Enterprise Partnerships under the Coalition government and the establishment process in two regions of England, west midlands and Yorkshire and the demise of regional development and regional Development Agencies established under the previous Labour government in the late 1990's.
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Why is it important?
Local Enterprise Partnerships were established under Eric pickles the Minister for Communities and Local Government. Their resources were limited under the austerity programme- one third of the budgets available to the previous RDA's.
Perspectives
Part of a series of monitoring and evaluation of the Local enterprise partnerships in England.Critical of LEP resources and establishment.Early comment on a key policy of the Coalition government which Vince Cable MP argued was a Coalition " maoist moment" in terms of policy and programme transition for urban and regional and local economic development.
Emeritus Professor John Shutt
Northumbria University
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This page is a summary of: From RDAs to LEPs: A New Localism? Case Examples of West Midlands and Yorkshire, Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, November 2010, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02690942.2010.532356.
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