Local Enterprise Partnership
The Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is designed to support business and local authorities to grow the local private sector, tackle major barriers to growth and develop shared strategies for the local economy to increase job creation.
Greater Manchester established a business-led Shadow Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) in October 2010, a temporary body created by AGMA that utilised the existing infrastructure and partnership arrangements across Greater Manchester to ensure that a permanent LEP could be established and operational by April 2011.
Composition of the GM LEP
The membership of the full GM LEP has now been confirmed and the board became operational on the 1st April 2011. Mike Blackburn, BT’s regional director for the North West, Chair’s the board of nine private sector and four local authority representatives.
The other private sector members of the GM LEP are:
Keith Johnston – Partner and Head of North West Market, Addleshaw Goddard
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell – President and Vice Chancellor, University of Manchester
Neil McArthur – Chairman and Head of Innovation, Talk Talk Technology
Ken Knott – Chief Executive, Ask Developments Group Limited
Peter Marks – Group Chief Executive, Co-operative Group
Alison Tumilty – Deputy Chief Executive and Finance Director, Rathbone Training Ltd
Roger Milburn – Director, Ove Arup and Partners Ltd
Scott Fletcher – Chairman, ANS Group
The four local authority positions will be filled by the chair of AGMA, Lord Peter Smith and the three vice-chairs of AGMA, Sir Richard Leese, Cllr Howard Sykes and Cllr Bob Bibby respectively.
All appointments were subject to an open recruitment process overseen by the Shadow LEP.
Functions of the Greater Manchester LEP
The LEP builds on Greater Manchester’s track record of proven success in developing partnership arrangements with business to continue to create the right conditions for continued economic growth in Greater Manchester.
The LEP will work closely alongside the Combined Authority which will be Greater Manchester’s primary accountable body for resource allocation and for integrating local authority functions. It will oversee the development and delivery of the Greater Manchester Strategy (GMS) and of the performance management framework. It will have responsibility for a wide variety of activity designed to increase long-term sustainable economic growth, including in the areas of employment and skills, business support, science and innovation, inward investment, international trade, marketing and tourism, European funding, planning, housing and transport and research, strategy development and performance management.
GM Business Week article (2908kb) (PDF)
Download the LEP Proposal here:
For further information on the Greater Manchester LEP please contact: LEP@neweconomymanchester.com
LEP meeting papers are stored on the AGMA website and can be accessed here.
Updated 6 months ago.
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