Sentences with phrase «regional development agencies»

Holland understands the regional dynamics required for the job and once sat on the board of the south west regional development agency.

As the government confirmed that it would abolish regional development agencies in favour of local enterprise partnerships, Clegg said the fund would help regions particularly hit by Britain's tightest public spending squeeze since the war.

Nothing to replicate the abolished regional development agencies.

The north - east regional development agency, One North East, and its film and digital technology arm, Northern and Film Media, has now been abolished and replaced by much weaker and unfunded local enterprise partnerships.

I followed it up with policy documents on planning for full employment, introducing regional development agencies, a modern transport system, a high - speed euro link and public - private investment partnerships.

Only yesterday the manufacturing Community Union launched a scathing attack on the Conservatives, accusing the Tories of «ruling out anything which might help» after the party came out against regional development agencies.

After rashly scrapping regional development agencies in 2010, he would revive the northern economy with an infusion of powers and money, topped off with elected mayors to give the enterprise some political leadership and direct accountability.

[9] regional development agencies were abolished on 31 March 2012, with their functions being taken over by smaller local enterprise partnerships which are not based on regional boundaries.

The Arts Council has already agreed to put in # 5m and Wakefield Council has applied for further funding from regional development agency Yorkshire Forward.

As it currently stands, regional assemblies will be abolished in 2010 under plans to transfer their functions to the various regional development agencies.

Having trained at Travers Smith in London before moving back to Newcastle, John gained experience as an in - house solicitor at One North East, the former regional development agency.

But there were celebrations elsewhere, and Steven Broomhead, chief executive of the north - west regional development agency, said he was «delighted» that Blackpool had made the final running for the «super-casino».

The budget also included $ 105 million over five years to regional development agencies to support investment in businesses led by women and $ 10 million over five years to connect women with expanded export services.

The Tories even set up a regional development agency for southern Ontario — paralleling those long - established distributors of largess in Atlantic Canada and the West — with $ 920 million to dole out, including $ 200 for «advanced manufacturing.»

The federal government's regional development agencies — which are charged with accelerating economic growth in each of Canada's regions — will double their clean technology budgets.

The abolition of the regional development agencies doesn't seem to have curbed this madness and it's one of the many reasons why UK businesses aren't growing and hiring.

He has arranged a meeting with Margaret Hodge, the minister for industry and the regions, and the regional development agency (RDA) chairs to discuss the role they can play in providing greater support for the social enterprise sector.

Loans of more than $ 250,000 must be approved by the regional development agency's board of directors, which meets monthly.

Loans of less than $ 250,000 can be approved fairly quickly, with loans of less than $ 50,000 requiring only the OK of the regional development agency's staff, while loans of less than $ 250,000 must be approved by its loan committee.

The government is shedding public money on its regional development agency (RDA) scheme, new research has revealed.

It pointed out the total # 1.4 billion being spent over three years was less than the annual spending of its regional development agencies, which were scrapped by the coalition.

The union said it was perverse that the Tory - led government is choosing to abolish the commission and England's nine regional development agencies - bodies which deliver essential work to support and improve the lives of those living in rural communities.

On the regional development agencies and spacial plans and the like, they are going.

He was Deputy Chair of EEDA, the regional development agency for the East of England, from 1998 and was Leader of Suffolk County Council from 1993, named Council of the Year 2001, until his election as Member of Parliament.

LEPs were set up by the coalition government in 2010 — replacing the nine regional development agencies — and Adonis was told industry could not stomach another change to the architecture of local business support.

To better address China's development problems, the report recommended the government set up three new bodies — environmental and energy ministries and a regional development agency.

«The Caribbean tourism industry is holding its own, remaining afloat and resilient amidst turbulence in the marketplace,» Sean Smith, CTO statistics specialist, announced at the regional development agency's State of the Industry news conference at its headquarters in Barbados.

The regional offices of Industry Canada and all of the regional development agencies were instrumental in assisting in the domestic consultations.