Growth Hubs
(asked on 9th July 2015) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Answer of 6 March 2015 to Question 225778, how many Growth Hubs are currently in operation; where each such hub is located and whether it has premises; when each such hub began operation; what public monies have been provided for each such hub; and what plans his Department has for further Growth Hubs in other local enterprise partnership areas.
There are currently 26 growth hubs across England. 13 new growth hubs will launch by March 2016, when there will be a growth hub available in every 39 LEP area. Details of the country’s growth hubs can be found on the LEP network website.
The first growth hub was created in Greater Manchester in November 2011, followed by Cumbria in 2013. 15 Wave 2 City areas received funding to help establish growth hubs during 2014-15 and all areas outside London will receive funding during 2015-16 as part of their Local Growth Deal. Details of growth deal funding can be found on the GOV.UK website.
LEP Area | Growth Deals 2015-16 |
Black Country | £400,000 |
Buckinghamshire Thames Valley | £350,000 |
Cheshire & Warrington | £350,000 |
Coast to Capital | £450,000 |
Cornwall & Isles of Scilly | £250,000 |
Coventry and Warwickshire | £400,000 |
Cumbria | £300,000 |
D2N2 | £525,000 |
Dorset | £250,000 |
Enterprise M3 | £350,000 |
Gloucester & Gloucestershire | £250,000 |
Greater Birmingham & Solihull | £625,000 |
Greater Cambridge & Peterborough | £300,000 |
Greater Lincoln & Lincolnshire | £300,000 |
Greater Manchester | £625,000 |
Heart of the South West | £400,000 |
Leicester & Leicestershire | £250,000 |
Hertfordshire | £350,000 |
Humber | £250,000 |
Lancashire | £400,000 |
Leeds City Region | £625,000 |
Liverpool City Region | £550,000 |
London |
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New Anglia | £350,000 |
Northamptonshire | £250,000 |
North East | £500,000 |
Oxford & Oxfordshire | £250,000 |
Sheffield City Region | £500,000 |
Solent | £250,000 |
South East | £800,000 |
South East Midlands | £300,000 |
Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire | £250,000 |
Swindon & Wiltshire | £250,000 |
Tees Valley | £300,000 |
Thames Valley Berkshire | £250,000 |
The Marches | £250,000 |
West of England | £400,000 |
Worcestershire | £250,000 |
York, North Yorkshire & East Riding | £300,000 |