As the Levelling Up White Paper stated, rankings for productivity in the UK have remained relatively unchanged for over 120 years. Geographic differences in productivity are long lived with a high degree of stickiness, and productivity varies substantially across and within regions.
The Government’s decision to call time on Local Enterprise Partnerships(LEPs) and transfer their functions to upper tier local authorities or combined authorities is just the latest of many efforts to solve that productivity puzzle.
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