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LEPs UNCOVERED

Alex Pratt OBE

Holder of The Queens Award For Enterprise Promotion

Chair of Buckinghamshire Thames Valley LEP

ALL LEPS ARE EQUAL

But Some Are More Equal Than Others…….

Heineken Lights

“The long term competitiveness on which our wealth depends is slipping away. Failure is measured in drift, in mediocrity..... a nation with its head hung down, in the shadow of world events…….a nation reconciled to genteel discomfort, envious of what once was, hopeless of what might have been.” Lord Hezza

“Britain is in the economic equivalent of war" and "in this global race you are either quick or you're dead". Dave

The Future?

PROSPERITY

Grandfathers • Fathers • Our Watch Entrepreneurial Mentality • Local vs Central Govt

TRUST

BACKGROUND

39th • Jan 2012 • Small BBF • £100k • 3000 • 35% • BROs LEP Board • Secretariat • £3.5M • 40

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

EHB • Most Micro • 60 • Home • +£4500 Green Belt • AONB • Schools • Growth Sectors

APPROACH

Business at Heart • Ozymandic • Build Capacity Partnership • Herts • GTV6 • London

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

John F. Kennedy

WHAT’S NEW?

Business 200+ • Place Strategy vs Nat Policy SLGF • EU Allocations • On a Promise

The LEP Chair Spring

CHALLENGES

Bus vs LA Focus • Bus vs Econ Devpt Leadership Font • Single Thimble? • 4-62 Delegation/Devolution • Overlaps 39 vs 39LEPs • Growth? • Governance Accountability • Labour • Capacity

LEPs UNCOVERED

Alex Pratt OBE

Holder of The Queens Award For Enterprise Promotion

Chair of Buckinghamshire Thames Valley LEP