Industrial Strategy: Local Growth

Lord Lucas Excerpts
Monday 26th April 2021

(3 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan (Con)
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That was not a deliberate omission. Local authorities are still key to the development and delivery of these strategies and policies, along with the LEPs, the mayoral combined authorities and, of course, local businesses themselves that need to be involved in the way forward.

Lord Lucas Portrait Lord Lucas (Con) [V]
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My Lords, I refer to the paragraph from Build Back Better headed “Changing the way we invest in places”. For a town such as Eastbourne, what will be the empowered local institution and with whom will it cohere and co-ordinate?