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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what involvement local authorities will have in the development and delivery of the Local Industrial Strategies referred to in the Industrial Strategy White Paper.

Local Industrial Strategies will establish new ways of working between national and local leaders in both the public and private sectors, with local authorities continuing to play an integral role in shaping their economies through their contribution to the work of the Local Enterprise Partnership. We expect each local strategy to be a result of extensive consultation at a local level.