Replacing Regional Development Agencies with a more-aspirational Regional Growth Fund has not produced any evidential improvements for regional economies.
Replacing Regional Development Agencies with a more-aspirational Regional Growth Fund has not produced any evidential improvements for regional economies.
Kevin Meagher explains why even now the Regional Growth Fund money is finally starting to be allocated, everything is far from rosy in their implementation.
Tomorrow night sees the deadline for the first round of bidding to the new Regional Growth Fund, writes Kevin Meagher.
Kevin Meagher examines the confusion over the funding behind local enterprise partnerships amidst further ambiguities in the coalition's regional policy. Business leaders have criticised the rush to switch from regional development agencies to LEPs.