Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding his Department has provided to each Local Enterprise Partnership to finance the development of local economic plans since 2011.

The Government first commissioned Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) to submit local Strategic Economic Plans by March 2014. Since 2013/14, the Government has provided £4.625m in core funding to LEPs to facilitate, amongst other things, the development and delivery of these plans.