Mark Bretton

Mark Bretton is chair of the LEP Network
  • Let LEPs grow the skills provision

    29 June 2022

    It defies logic that local enterprise partnerships are being needlessly frozen out of the bidding process for Local Skills Improvement Plans says Mark Bretton.


  • Four strengths of LEPs

    15 March 2022

    Mark Bretton asks how we can marry up the Levelling Up White Paper’s ‘warm words’ about local enterprise partnerships with the future role they are expected to play in bringing about £2.5tn of economic transformation.


  • Film and TV sector offers opportunities for growth beyond Hertfordshire

    12 October 2021

    Our Local Enterprise Partnership is proud to be leading the national debate on the future of the Hertfordshire located, globally significant, film and television sector, says Mark Bretton.


  • Let LEPs get on with a job we’re doing well

    07 September 2021

    As we build our recovery, it would be a travesty to lose the capability of LEPs just when local communities and businesses need it most, says Mark Bretton.


  • A five point plan for economic revolution

    14 August 2020

    As the sparks a revolution in the way we live and work, Mark Bretton outlines the Local Enterprise Partnerships' five point plan for recovery