Southern areas keen to bid for LEP status

摘要

Local enterprise partnerships (LEP) located in the home counties and the South East have eagerly embraced bidding for enterprise zone status, The MJ can reveal. Last week, the chancellor, George Os- borne, announced the first set of 10 enterprise zones, focusing on growth in the metropolitan regions of the northern cities, such as Liverpool and Tyneside, and the Midlands, such as Derby and Birmingham.