Business Leaders’ Briefing Thursday 10th December 2015 City Hall, Leicester

Corin Crane LLEP Director Introduction Corin Crane LLEP Director

Leicester Business Festival LBF Highlights video

How do you think we can improve on the LBF in 2016? Leicester Business Festival Over 80 events 25 events sold out Over 5,000 tickets sold 80% of events were free Social media reach of 782,658 1 x headline sponsor and 7 x Affiliate sponsors 2 x media partners How do you think we can improve on the LBF in 2016?

Combined Authority Stakeholders & public consulted on Draft Scheme & Governance Review 260 questionnaires returned 68.8% of respondents ‘strongly agreed’ or ‘tended to agree’ that a CA is the best governance model Ambition of ‘asks’ will determine government’s response to size of Combined Authority Devolution: Detailed discussions start early 2016 LLEP leading on skills, business support and EZs Transport and planning also being looked at. We are now working to gather more detailed information on outputs and this will be supported by the evaluation next year. Projections are that we are on target to deliver on targets in the growth deal document.

CSR LEPs Core Funding Confirmed until 2020 Growth Hubs Funding until 2017 Remaining £4bn of Growth Deal to be released Flexibility for Business Rates confirmed FE Budgets left alone (for now) Enterprise Zone Application turned down Business Growth Service (MAS & Growth Accelerator) terminated April 2016 Visit England Budgets under threat

LLEP Board Engagement Strong track record of engagement Stakeholder Engagement Strategy What level of engagement do you want? What works for you?

Skills & Employer Demand There is a need for a detailed Employer Skills Demand study for SEP Refresh, Area Review and Devolution submission A refresh of all the baseline information available An independent report building on the Sector Growth Plans and based on conversations with local businesses An independent report on productivity issues and hard to fill vacancies within businesses

MIPIM 2016 – Team Leicestershire Wednesday 16th March Power of 3 event with Derby, Leicester & Nottingham A Question of Rugby with George Chuter & friends Thursday 17th March Beach rugby & lunch with Leicester Tigers Ian Guyler co-ordinating Team Leicestershire sponsorship @ £1500 Leicester & Leicestershire stand: Opportunity for sponsors’ logos on the stand and marketing materials Actively looking to attract events to LBF16 and LBF17 

Growing Places Fund GPF video

Over to you…. Thank you for coming this morning Please share your comments, questions, thoughts and suggestions email Nick Pulley at llepchair@llep.org.uk