Date of Answer: 29.06.2010

Column References: 512 c538W

Member Tabling Question: McKinnell, Catherine

Topic: One NorthEast

Question: (2) what assessment he has made of the effects of the proposed abolition of One NorthEast on the North East Productivity Alliance project.

Answering Department: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Member Answering Question: Prisk, Mark

Answer: We have invited local authority and business leaders to work together and consider forming local enterprise partnerships to replace regional development agencies. Local enterprise partnerships will provide the strategic leadership in their areas and set out local economic priorities. It will be for local enterprise partnerships to decide which initiatives to support. The Government will publish a White Paper later in the summer setting out plans for a new approach to sub-national growth.

Question Number: 4712

Date Tabled: 24.06.2010

Date for Answer: 28.06.2010