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Local Industrial Strategies to drive growth across the country

The Local Industrial Strategies will build on local strengths and drive growth across the UK.

• From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and The Rt Hon Greg Clark
• Published: 3 December 2018
• Last updated: 6 December 2018 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

The entire country will be able to benefit from developing a local Industrial Strategy, ministers announced today (Monday, 3 December 2018).

We will work in partnership with places to develop Local Industrial Strategies that will be long-term plans based on clear evidence and aligned to the national modern Industrial Strategy.

The development of Local Industrial Strategies, through extensive local consultation with businesses, public partners and civil society, will build on unique local strengths to ensure every community, and the country, reaches their economic potential and creates high quality good jobs.

Local Industrial Strategies, led by Mayoral Combined Authorities or Local Enterprise Partnerships, will promote the coordination of local economic policy and national funding streams and establish new ways of working between national and local government, and the public and private sectors.

Business Secretary Greg Clark said:

We know that growth does not happen in the abstract, it happens in the cities, towns and counties of our country, all with their own unique strengths and heritage.

Local Modern Industrial Strategies, designed by local businesses and people, will capture the strengths and opportunities of an area and provide the long-term plan for how we ensure we seize those opportunities.

The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has created an interactive map showcasing just a snapshot of some of the innovative work that is going on across the UK, illustrating the modern Industrial Strategy in action.

View the map to see a snapshot of the modern Industrial Strategy in action.

Industrial Strategy: local summaries

• Black Country (PDF, 305 KB, 1 page)
• Buckinghamshire Thames Valley (PDF, 310 KB, 1 page)
• Cambridge & Peterborough Combined Authority Business Board (PDF, 310 KB, 1 page)
• Cheshire & Warrington (PDF, 309 KB, 1 page)
• Coventry & Warwickshire (PDF, 311 KB, 1 page)
• Coast to Capital (PDF, 307 KB, 1 page)
• Cornwall & Isles of Scilly (PDF, 310 KB, 1 page)
• Cumbria (PDF, 314 KB, 1 page)
• Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham & Nottinghamshire (PDF, 314 KB, 1 page)
• Dorset (PDF, 311 KB, 1 page)
• Enterprise M3 (PDF, 311 KB, 1 page)
• GFirst (PDF, 308 KB, 1 page)
• Greater Birmingham & Solihull (PDF, 308 KB, 1 page)
• Greater Lincolnshire (PDF, 311 KB, 1 page)
• Greater Manchester (PDF, 309 KB, 1 page)
• Heart of the South West (PDF, 312 KB, 1 page)
• Hertfordshire (PDF, 311 KB, 1 page)
• Humber (PDF, 310 KB, 1 page)
• Lancashire (PDF, 311 KB, 1 page)
• Leeds City Region (PDF, 309 KB, 1 page)
• Leicester & Leicestershire (PDF, 311 KB, 1 page)
• Liverpool City Region (PDF, 308 KB, 1 page)
• London (PDF, 307 KB, 1 page)
• New Anglia (PDF, 309 KB, 1 page)
• North East (PDF, 309 KB, 1 page)
• Oxfordshire (PDF, 311 KB, 1 page)
• Sheffield City Region (PDF, 310 KB, 1 page)
• Solent (PDF, 309 KB, 1 page)
• South East (PDF, 311 KB, 1 page)
• South East Midlands (PDF, 308 KB, 1 page)
• Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire (PDF, 310 KB, 1 page)
• Swindon & Wiltshire (PDF, 309 KB, 1 page)
• Tees Valley (PDF, 309 KB, 1 page)
• Thames Valley Berkshire (PDF, 309 KB, 1 page)
• The Marches (PDF, 309 KB, 1 page)
• West of England (PDF, 311 KB, 1 page)
• Worcestershire (PDF, 310 KB, 1 page)
• York, North Yorkshire & East Riding (PDF, 309 KB, 1 page)
• Scotland (PDF, 313 KB, 1 page)
• Wales (PDF, 310 KB, 1 page)
• Northern Ireland (PDF, 312 KB, 1 page)

Published 3 December 2018
Last updated 6 December 2018 + show all updates

1. 6 December 2018

   Industrial Strategy local summaries added.

2. 3 December 2018

   First published.