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Help your self to coffee!
EMC Technical Assistance Project
Andrew PritchardDirector of Policy & Infrastructure
What is it all about?
A technical assistance project led by East Midlands Councils to provide an evidence base for future EU funding
To make sure that we maximise the potential of EU investment across the East Midlands
Strong support from DCLG & Council Leaders for the project
Localisation of EU funding
Establishment of a national ‘EU Growth Programme’
LEPs to develop EU investment strategies Each LEP to be given a ‘notional
allocation’ of EU funding to prioritise Payments to be made centrally Notional allocations will be reviewed
against performance from 2017 onwards
“Show me the money”
D2N2: €249.7 million SCR: €203.4 million UK Local Growth Fund = £2 billion
UK Local Growth Fund
New Homes Bonus £400m
LA Major Transport Scheme £819m
Local Sustainable Transport Fund £100m
Integrated Transport Block £200m
Further Education Capital Fund £330m
ESF Skills Match Funding £170M
Emerging UK Priorities
•Innovation•SME Competitiveness•ICT 60% + of ERDF
•Employment•Skills•Social Inclusion 80% + of ESF
•Climate Change•Environment•Sustainable Transport No Minimum spend
•Low Carbon Economy 20% + of ERDF
Also…
Minimum 20% of combined ESF/ERDF on ‘social inclusion’
Gender equality, equal opportunities & non-discrimination
Sustainable development
Programme Timescales
September 2013: Draft LEP EU Investment Strategies
January 2014: finalise strategies
March 2014: new EU Programme starts
2017 – first review of notional allocations
Current Experience
Spend under the current ERDF Programme has been slow
Too many small projects - difficult to see a strategic impact
Original operational programme did not fully meet local needs - e.g. Broadband
Future Challenges
1 region replaced by 7 LEPs – 4 overlapping
Pressure for early spend on projects that will deliver clear outcomes
LEP notional allocations to be reviewed in 2017- under-performance could be penalised
Threats v Opportunities
What are we going to do?
Facilitate a series of consultation events Develop an evidence base (or ‘socio-
economic framework’) to inform both the UK Growth Programme and individual LEP Strategies – working with NTU.
Highlight potential areas of collaborative activity that can maximise strategic impact and reduce ‘transaction costs’
Events Diary
1st July: Greater Lincolnshire LEP 5th July: Leicester & Leicestershire LEP 9th July: Competitiveness Round Table 16th July: NEP/SEMLEP 22nd July: D2N2 25th July: Green Economy Round Table
Project Timescales
End of July 2013: Interim Report
September 2013: draft Framework
December 2013 – final Framework
January - June 2014 Awareness raising
Key Outcomes
“It’s the economy, stupid”
More Jobs Less Worklessness
Your mission today…
To think about how best EU funding could be used across D2N2
To highlight areas or issues where wider collaboration might be helpful.
To ask if you do not understand.
East Midlands PA3 ProjectSocio-Economic Evidence – the future of European
Funds in Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
22nd July, 2013
Chris LawtonNottingham Business School
Project Rationale and Objectives• The project aims to provide socio-economic evidence
to help identify synergies, linkages and common challenges across LEPs within or overlapping the East Midlands
• To identify opportunities for collaboration across the themes identified in the ‘Europe 2020’ strategy
• The UK Government would: “like to see Local Enterprise Partnerships working with each other to deliver a bigger impact… and achieve economies of scale wherever possible”
Source: HM Government, April 2013. ‘Technical Annex: Preliminary guidance to Local Enterprise Partnerships on development of Structural & Investment Fund Strategies.’ paragraph 2.8, p. 4.
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right, 2013.
Local Enterprise Partnerships within or overlapping the East Midlands Region
Chart 1: Headline GVA per head indices (UK=100) NUTS2, 2011
Economic Context
Source: ONS Crown Copyright, 2012. ‘Regional Gross Value Added, 2011’.
Economic Context
Source: ONS Crown Copyright, 2013. ‘Annual Population Survey’, January-December 2008 and January-December 2012. From NOMIS [accessed 24th June, 2013].
Chart 2:Employment rate (% working age residents), 2012
• The SME environment remains difficult, but some signs of improvement: – Business death rates have fallen since 2009 and business birth
rates have increased– Survival rates for new businesses have significantly decreased
since pre-recession– Small businesses (<50 employees) have been more likely to
retain staff but cut/freeze wages and investment, with resulting lost productivity
– Large businesses (>250) more likely to cut staff whilst maintaining investment and productivity levels
• Lenders report that demand for credit remains low• Despite some structural improvements, firms seeking credit
continue to report difficulties in the supply of finance• Exports have been growing moderately in recent months
EU Thematic Objective: SME Competitiveness
Chart 3: Business Births and Deaths (as a % of end-of-year count of active enterprises), 2011
Source: ONS Crown Copyright, 2012. ‘Business Demography 2011 – Enterprise Births, Deaths and Survivals.’
EU Thematic Objective: SME Competitiveness
SME Competitiveness: Business Birth Rate (as a % of end-of-year count of active enterprises), 2011
Source: ONS Crown Copyright, 2012. ‘Business Demography 2011 – Enterprise Births, Deaths and Survivals.’Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right, 2013.
Chart 4: Two year business survival rate from year of birth (%)
EU Thematic Objective: SME Competitiveness
Source: ONS Crown Copyright, 2012. ‘Business Demography 2011 – Enterprise Births, Deaths and Survivals.’
Chart 5: Innovation inputs: Business Enterprise Investment in R&D (as a % of total workplace GVA), 1999 and 2009
EU Thematic Objective: Innovation
Source: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 2012. ‘Regional Economic Performance Indicators – Live Tables’.
EU Thematic Objective: InnovationChart 6: Employment in High and Medium-High Technology Industries (% work-based employment), 2011
Source: ONS Crown Copyright, 2012. ‘Business Register and Employment Survey, 2011.’ Data accessed from NOMIS [17th June, 2013] and analysed under Chancellor’s Notice Ref NTCBRES11-P0537.
Innovation: Employment in High and Medium-High Technology Industries (%), 2011
Source: ONS Crown Copyright, 2012. ‘Business Register and Employment Survey, 2011.’ Data accessed from NOMIS [17th June, 2013] and analysed under Chancellor’s Notice Ref NTCBRES11-P0537. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right, 2013.
EU Thematic Objectives: Employment, Social Inclusion and Skills
Chart 7: Unemployment Rate (% 16+ resident population), 2012
Source: ONS Crown Copyright, 2013. ‘Annual Population Survey’, January-December 2012. From NOMIS [accessed 14 th June, 2013].
Employment, Social Inclusion and Skills: Unemployment – model-based estimates (%), 2012
Source: ONS Crown Copyright, 2012. ‘Model-based estimates of unemployment’, January-December 2012. From NOMIS [accessed 17th June, 2013].Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right, 2013.
EU Thematic Objectives: Employment, Social Inclusion and Skills
Chart 8: Trends in the Unemployment Rate (% 16+ resident population), 2007-2012
Source: ONS Crown Copyright, 2013. ‘Annual Population Survey’, January-December 2007 to January-December 2012. From NOMIS [accessed 14th June, 2013].
Employment, Social Inclusion and Skills: Resident Adults Qualified to a Level 4 (first degree) and above (%), 2012
Source: ONS Crown Copyright, 2012. ‘Annual Population Survey’, January-December 2012. From NOMIS [accessed 17th June, 2013].Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right, 2013.
Key Points• Some improvements (e.g. business births and deaths),
but overall economic context remains challenging• North-south or east-west divides (depending on topic)
exacerbated by the recession:– Unemployment/Social Exclusion: north-south divide– Enterprise and Skills: north-south and east-west– Innovation: east-west (M1 corridor)
• Importance of manufacturing and large firms in regional innovation activity
• Enterprise, innovation and low-carbon themes will be explored further in x2 regional round-tables
Common Issues: D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership
SME Competitiveness Innovation Employment, Social Inclusion and Skills
SCR, Greater Lincolnshire – common challenges related to the impact of recession on the SME environment : seen in falls in output and productivity, lower levels of enterprise, and lower business survival rates
Construction – important employer across the East Midlands, as both an enabling sector and a key employer
LLEP (and Coventry & Warwickshire)– high tech manufacturing in south Derbyshire/north Leicestershire (M1 corridor) – a range sub-sectors, including, but not restricted to, Transport Equipment, with supply chain and knowledge transfer relationships with HE
Include links to low carbon agenda (including power generation) – Greater Lincolnshire
SCR, Greater Lincolnshire – increased unemployment in urban and rural areas (and increased disparities with more resilient areas).
Common drivers of worklessness amongst key groups (including young people), including skills supply and changing industrial and occupational structure (skills demand)
D2N2 Local Priorities
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