LEP statistics – not good news

These were in notes for Editors but are too important to languish in notes:

Notes for Editors
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Number of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) in England

£12bn
Local Growth Fund available to LEPs between 2015-16 and 2020-21

Up to 419,500
Jobs to be created by LEPs’ Growth Deals according to LEPs

£7.3 billion
Amount of the Local Growth Fund which has been allocated as of March 2016

£2 billion
Annual funding to LEPs from the Local Growth Fund from 2015-16 to 2020-21

£627.5 million
Largest Growth Deal awarded to a single LEP: Leeds City Region

45% to 80%
Range of private sector board membership in LEPs

87%
Percentage of LEPs for which we were unable to obtain information on senior staff remuneration from publicly available accounts.

68%
Estimated real-terms reduction in local authority net expenditure on economic development between 2010-11 and 2015-16

42%
Of LEPs say that they do not publish a register of interests

49%
Of LEPs agreed or strongly agreed that there are clear lines of accountability from the LEP to the local electorate

£85 million
Estimated underspend on Local Growth Fund projects for 2015-16

5%
Percentage of LEPs agreed or strongly agreed that resources available to LEPs are enough to meet the expectations placed on them by government

8
Median number of full-time equivalent staff employed by LEPs.