Local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) will have to remove overlaps if they want to qualify for cash from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), The MJ understands.
A number of LEPs and councils have been furiously lobbying ministers to retain overlaps but the push appears not to have worked.
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