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            <article id="summary" class="chapter current" style=""><div class="Chapter-frame"><div id="_idContainer020" class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-title">Summary</span></h1><p class="body_para">Last year’s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report was full of confident projections of northern powerhouse potential. In substantive terms, little has changed: this year the northern economy has passed the £300 billion mark, jobs growth has motored on, and northern regions topped this year’s EY Attractiveness Survey for foreign investment.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">However, dark clouds are gathering on the horizon following the events of the past six months that have engendered more than a wobble – uncertainty now pervades the northern mood. Regardless of current quarter on quarter national GDP growth, the decision to leave the EU will have a profound effect on the northern economy. Whether in terms of trade, access to skilled labour or EU funding programmes, the implications of Brexit on the North will be profound. There will be upsides of course but for the time being business is cautious and concerned.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">The political fallout from the Brexit vote has also been severe. The champions for the northern powerhouse in the national government – former chancellor George Osborne and financial secretary Jim O’Neill – have both departed the main stage. Meanwhile, devolution deals appear to have stalled, and the focus on regional rebalancing has now been subsumed into a wider initiative to develop an industrial strategy. </p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">All this, however, presents new opportunities. While Osborne’s approach was always too partial, piecemeal and parochial, Greg Clark’s ambition to create a ‘place-based industrial strategy’ led by the powerful new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has the potential to ignite a new era of economic activism around some of the North’s major economic strengths.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">Such developments are timely. Following on from IPPR North’s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Blueprint for a Great North Plan</em> in January 2016, which set out a framework for a modern industrial strategy, Transport for the North unveiled in June the results of the Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review. The review identified four ‘primary economic capabilities’ where the North has been shown to have world-class assets and a further three ‘enabling capabilities’ that will underpin this potential.</p>
			<p class="body_para">Add to this the excellent progress being made in building powerhouse capacity in relation to transport infrastructure, finance, trade and investment; the northern powerhouse strategy and northern powerhouse schools strategy published alongside the chancellor’s autumn statement; and there should be cause for cautious optimism. Instead though, wider events mean that business confidence is weak and once again, the prospects of inclusive growth in the North are looking as distant as ever.</p>
			<p class="body_para">Our <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North 2016</em> report focuses on three key issues that will build business confidence in an era of increasing uncertainty.</p>
			<p id="securing-a-united-northern-voice-at-the-brexit-negotiating-table" class="subhead_1">Securing a united northern voice at the Brexit negotiating table</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4">The North has distinct economic assets and interests that present both opportunities and threats as the UK prepares to leave the European Union. However, the fledgling and patchy development of combined authorities, metro mayors and devolution deals in the North means that the region is not well placed to formulate a coherent response to Brexit. It will therefore struggle to match the response of the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales, or of the mayor of London or other well-established lobbying groups.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-5"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 1:</strong> <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">IPPR North calls for the formation of a Northern Brexit Negotiating Committee to determine the type of Brexit that would best suit the North, to speak with one voice in the negotiations, and to build direct relationships with regions and nations within and beyond the EU in order to develop and enhance its particular trade interests.</strong></p>
			<p id="establishing-clear-principles-for-a-place-based-industrial-strategy" class="subhead_1">Establishing clear principles for a place-based industrial strategy</p>
			<p class="body_para_into_list">The government’s industrial strategy represents an opportunity not only to address the implications of Brexit but also to take a more proactive approach to many of the structural challenges facing the UK economy, not least regional rebalancing. There are numerous ‘types’ of industrial strategy with varying degrees of intervention. IPPR has set out four clear ‘objectives’ that any new approach must address including the need to develop a strong spatial dimension to enable all parts of the country to contribute to its prosperity, but IPPR North believes that industrial strategy must adopt three ‘place-based principles’. </p>
			<ul>
<li class="bullet_1">
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Regional differentiation:</em> Develop a more sophisticated understanding of what drives growth in different types of region rather than the hitherto insufficient account of growth focused on urban agglomeration.</li>
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<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Co-ordinated investment:</em> Drive up public investment in infrastructure, research and development and other economic assets to match private sector investment and act as a catalyst for business innovation and smart specialisation.</li>
				<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6">
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution:</em> Develop and enhance its approach to devolution both to regional and local tiers of government with a much greater emphasis on fiscal powers to enable subnational bodies to direct investment on local economic opportunities.</li>
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<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 2: IPPR North calls upon government to adopt a place-based approach to industrial strategy with the three core principles of regional differentiation, coordinated investment and devolution as its foundation.</strong></p>
			<p id="focusing-on-local-economic-resilience-alongside-growth-and-devolution" class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">FOCUSING ON LOCAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE ALONGSIDE GROWTH AND DEVOLUTION</strong></p>
			<p class="body_para">The large majority of our <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North 2016</em> report focuses on the importance of building local economic resilience. As with industrial strategy, there is a rich literature on how local economies resist and recover from economic shocks. Building on the work of Martin and Sunley (2014), IPPR North has developed a resilience framework consisting of four factors, each with a set of key indicators, and has used these to profile each of the 11 local enterprise partnership (LEP) areas across the North of England.</p>
			<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-8">Our analysis finds that the North’s resilience is as varied as its geography, but we have been able to group the North’s LEP areas into the following categories.</p>
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<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-9">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resilient or prosperous:</strong> areas that are relatively well prepared, with a diverse economy and strong labour market</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dynamic but vulnerable:</strong> areas where there is a diverse or diversifying economic base, but have some structural flaws, especially compared to similar city-regions in the EU</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last ParaOverride-10">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dependent or vulnerable:</strong> areas that are reliant on a single industry or small group of industries, and have significant structural issues to overcome.</li>
			</ol>
<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 3: IPPR North recommends conducting LEP resilience audits. The North’s LEPs, working closely with relevant local and combined authorities, should each conduct a resilience audit that sets out in detail the threats to their economy in the wake of Brexit. This audit should then be used to inform a strategic response, and a set of asks from the government that are tailored to acting on this strategy as part of a new round of devolution deals with each LEP area.</strong></p>
		</div></div></article><article id="context" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">1.</span><span class="chapter-title">Context</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="chapter_subhead">Brexit and industrial strategy</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-11">The UK economy is set for a period of significant disruption. The EU referendum result pitched the nation into economic uncertainty, with Brexit itself looming just two years from April 2017. A new government has come to power, affording a prominent role to industrial strategy and inclusive growth. Meanwhile the northern powerhouse is now under new ownership with different ministers and new mayors soon to be elected in its major cities. These are significant changes, which will have a different effect on different parts of the North. Chapter 1 explores this changing context and argues that a principled, place-based industrial strategy could build a North that is more resilient to economic turbulence.</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.1-the-uk-and-the-european-union">1.1 The UK and the European Union</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-11">The nature of Brexit is subject to a range of political influences and decisions that are as yet unknown. The referendum vote signalled that the UK will leave the EU, but the terms of departure remain uncertain: parliament and various interest groups will seek to shape the settlement to their interests. The final deal will also be subject to the increasingly volatile politics of the EU itself and within some of its major constituent nations &ndash; France and Germany especially &ndash; which multiplies this uncertainty further. As a result some of the fundamental policies that underpin the UK economy are under threat, especially: trade policy, with the EU and other countries; migration policy with EU states; and foreign direct investment from within and outside the EU.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Uncertain politics makes for an uncertain economic outlook. Up until now the impact of the Brexit vote has been mixed: the first release of GDP since the referendum indicated only a marginal slip (post-referendum quarterly growth was 0.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, compared to 0.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent before); but the value of the pound has collapsed dramatically &ndash; the effective exchange rate (weighted for trade flows) has slipped to the lowest level on record (Hunter&nbsp;et al 2016). In this uncertain time, any forecast is to be treated with caution, but some of the major organisations that analyse the British economy have downgraded their forecasts for 2017 (see IMF 2016, OECD 2016). Moreover, the background economic conditions pre-Brexit were themselves far from healthy: economic growth has been low in the UK since the recession, while structural labour market issues and inequality persist.</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-3">Earlier this year, IPPR North published a report exploring these issues from the perspective of the north of England (Dickinson and Cox 2016). The report identified eight interrelated issues where the North is likely to have specific concerns on account of its distinctive economic mix. These concerns are specific to particular economic sectors that predominate in the North and where the region has particular economic strengths, such as advanced manufacturing, energy, health innovation and the digital economy. Related to each of these economic strengths are the following concerns:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">the North has a higher proportion of international trade with the EU than many other parts of the UK</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">sector-specific skills and labour market issues</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">engagement with pan-European innovation systems and access to particular streams of research funding</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-13">particular regulations and issues around public procurement, state aid and assisted areas</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">regional and subregional economic development funds.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">The impact of the EU on UK GDP is far larger than that of other countries. For example, it is around three times that of the US (3.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and four times that of the combined &lsquo;BRIC&rsquo; emerging economies (2.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) (Springford et al 2016). This is because EU &lsquo;value chains&rsquo; have strong multiplier effects throughout the economy, with manufacturing goods and service sector trade closely interrelated. Given that the EU-UK demand multiplier value is 2.4, it is estimated that a 1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent reduction in UK exports to the EU &ndash; equivalent to 0.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of UK GDP &ndash; leads to a reduction in UK GDP of 0.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; equal to our net EU budget contribution (ibid).</p>

<p class="body_para">These figures are, however, aggregated at the UK level. Critically, dependence on EU trade is far greater in the regions outside London. Academic research shows that most UK regions outside London are anything from 50 to 100&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent more dependent upon EU trade than London, and that they have become more dependent on EU trade since 2000, while London has become less dependent (McCann 2016). As a consequence, the impact of any reduction in EU trade will be significantly greater in the north of England and the Midlands than elsewhere. Ironically, it&nbsp;is those areas that voted in favour of Brexit where both local labour income&nbsp;and local productivity is likely to be most adversely affected.</p>

<p class="body_para">It is therefore essential that the North ensures that it has the tools it needs in order to both exploit the opportunities that Brexit offers, and mitigate the risks that it will pose.</p>

<p class="body_para">The fledgling and patchy development of combined authorities, metro mayors and devolution deals in the North means that the region is not well placed to formulate a coherent response to Brexit that will match those of the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, or that of the mayor of London or other well-established lobbying groups. Furthermore, it is quite impossible for central government to deal meaningfully with the demands of over 30 upper-tier local authorities, and 11&nbsp;local enterprise partnership areas, in the North one by one.</p>

<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Recommendation 1: A Northern Brexit Negotiating Committee should be established to determine the type of Brexit that best suits the North, to speak with one voice in the negotiations, and to build direct relationships with regions and nations within and beyond the EU in order to develop and enhance its particular trade interests.</strong></p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.2-place-based-industrial-strategy-and-inclusive-growth">1.2 Place-based industrial strategy and inclusive growth</p>

<p class="body_para">In part as a response to the implications of Brexit and the underlying sense of urgency for rebalancing the economy, the new government has set out its intention to develop and implement a &lsquo;place based&rsquo; industrial strategy to drive growth &lsquo;up and down the country&rsquo; (Clarke 2016, May 2016). The formation of a new department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is poised to intervene strategically in the economy, something which hasn&rsquo;t been done so overtly for many years. There is also a powerful economy and industrial strategy cabinet committee &ndash; chaired by the prime minister &ndash; geared towards this end. This approach will bring the UK into line with similar countries, such as Germany and France, who have a long history of being more interventionist in relation to regional economic development. Articulating her view on the government&rsquo;s new industrial strategy, the prime minister recently stated that:</p>

<p class="blockquote ParaOverride-14"><span class="CharOverride-2">&lsquo;</span>We will identify the sectors of the economy&hellip; that are of strategic importance to our economy, and do everything we can to encourage, develop and support them. And we will identify the places that have the potential to contribute to economic growth and become the homes to millions of new jobs. That means inspiring an economic and cultural revival in all of our great regional cities.<span class="CharOverride-2">&rsquo;</span></p>

<p class="blockquote_ref">May 2016</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-12">IPPR has already set out four clear objectives for a new national industrial strategy (Colebrook 2016). One of these objectives is the need to develop a strong spatial dimension to facilitate a more even spread of economic activity across the country. Building on this, it is crucial that the <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">geography</em> of industry is embedded in this new industrial strategy. Doing so should bring together five strands of policy:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-15"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Sectoral strategy.</strong> This focuses on enabling specific sectors to grow, for example by investing in specific technologies, or subsidising businesses directly, often without factoring in geographical considerations.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Regional strategy.</strong> This is concerned with the geography of economic growth, and is often simplified as a desire to &lsquo;rebalance the economy&rsquo;. This tends to focus non-sector specific or &lsquo;horizontal&rsquo; interventions at the regional level &ndash; such as transport investment, skills and innovation.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Smart specialisation.</strong> There is a further concept which sits at the juncture of these strategies: &lsquo;smart specialisation&rsquo;, which aims to understand and drive innovation. This concept originates within industrial theory, but more recently has been transposed onto regional economics (McCann and Ortega-Argil&eacute;s 2011).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution.</strong> Regional structures have now been replaced by far looser local enterprise partnerships across England, and far more focused combined authorities in some major cities. The lessons from Europe indicate that regional governments are very well placed to drive industrial strategy, and McCann (2016) concludes &ndash; from a comprehensive analysis of the UK economy &ndash; that institutional change and spatial rebalancing must go hand-in-hand.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Inclusive growth.</strong> For many years policymakers have made the mistake of overprioritising GDP growth as a policy objective. There has been some surprise that GDP growth hasn&rsquo;t improved living standards for many. This in turn has led to an academic and often abstract debate about how policy should go beyond GDP, or how economic growth can be made more &lsquo;inclusive&rsquo; (Stiglitz et al 2009, RSA 2016, Lupton et al 2016). It has been clear for some time that, alongside GDP (or GVA), policymakers should prioritise employment, wages, progression and the inclusion of disadvantaged groups.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">Building on these five strands of policy, this <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report argues that any place-based industrial strategy should rest upon three principles that relate to the &lsquo;place&rsquo; element of industrial strategy.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 1: Regional differentiation.</strong> There is a need for a more sophisticated understanding of what drives growth in different types of region (OECD 2012, NEFC 2012). The role of cities is vital, but the agglomeration hypothesis is overplayed &ndash; a UK city with double the population of another comparable UK city will only be 1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent more productive &ndash; far less than in many similar countries (Ahrend et al 2015). Policy should instead draw on modern understandings of regional economics that, while accounting for the importance of cities, prioritise the wider region in both their analysis and the policy prognosis that results (McCann 2016).</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">Many smaller towns and cities make a significant contribution both individually and through their interactions with the bigger cities. Furthermore, in the North important prime capabilities &ndash; advanced manufacturing and energy sectors for example &ndash; are largely based outside cities, though they often rely on them for their supply chain and labour pool (Cox and Longlands 2016, NIER 2016). In order to account for this, place-based industrial strategy must allow for sufficient regional differentiation in terms of the sectors it chooses to prioritise, the investments it chooses to make, and the tools and powers it chooses to devolve.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 2: Coordinated investment. </strong>Building on principle 1, interactions need to happen between businesses within prime sectors; and between them and their supply chains, enabling capabilities and underpinning assets &ndash; especially the universities (McCann and Ortega-Argil&eacute;s 2011, NIER 2016)<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">. </strong>Infrastructure &ndash; including transport, broadband and facilities (such as lab space) &ndash; can enable the ecosystem that businesses need to develop organically; R&amp;D investment generates overspills within places; and transport infrastructure can broaden the labour force that a diverse business cluster has access to. There needs to be a significant increase in public investment in infrastructure, research and development and other economic assets to match private sector investment and act as a catalyst for business innovation and smart specialisation. Such investment needs to be coordinated both in terms of a sectoral and geographical approach but also between public and private partners.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-7"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 3: Devolution. </strong>In order to achieve principles 1 and 2 most effectively, central government needs to devolve further powers and collaborate with regional and local government. Regional government in Europe has proven highly capable of implementing industrial strategy. In the UK &ndash; especially the North &ndash; local government is both well informed about local economic capabilities, and in many areas is developing the institutions to take on a much greater level of responsibility in this regard. To date, however, devolution deals have been too partial and piecemeal and there needs to be a more radical consideration of the potential for greater fiscal devolution and powers held at a more strategic &lsquo;mezzanine&rsquo; tier &ndash; such as the North.</p>

<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 2: IPPR North calls upon government to adopt a place-based approach to industrial strategy with the three core principles of regional differentiation, coordinated investment and devolution as its foundation.</strong></p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.3-north-first-northern-potential-as-an-exemplar-for-industrial-strategy-and-inclusive-growth">1.3 North first: northern potential as an exemplar for industrial strategy and inclusive growth</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The North could be an exemplar region for place-based industrial strategy and inclusive growth. There are significant foundations on which to build, and demonstrable benefit from taking such an approach.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There are a number of assets that &ndash; with the right investment &ndash; could enable the North to thrive.</strong> The northern powerhouse agenda may lack definition, but it does speak to the North&rsquo;s economic potential: it is home to 15 million people; it contributes &pound;304 billion to UK economic growth; and it ties together 5 major cities, 8 major ports and 29 universities (Cox and Raikes 2015).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-16"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There are institutions taking form which could take it forward</strong><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">.</strong> The northern powerhouse has started to take shape: Transport for the North is soon to gain statutory status, and in May 2017 new metro mayors will be elected across a wide swathe of the North.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The prime and enabling capabilities of the North are well recognised, and understood by local stakeholders.</strong> Crucially, the North has already set out the prime capabilities that such an industrial strategy can harness, and the enabling capabilities that can support these. Transport for the North recently undertook the Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review (NIER), in which it analysed the concentration of sectors and listed the assets within the North. From this, the NIER set out the North&rsquo;s prime capabilities: advanced manufacturing, health innovation, energy and digital; and its enabling capabilities: financial and professional services, higher education and logistics (NIER 2016).</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">The North is also well placed to deliver <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">inclusive</em> economic growth. The combined authorities &ndash; with or without mayors &ndash; are able to bring together public service reform and economic policy within a place in a new and crucial way: for example by commissioning the work and health programme in a way which aligns with demand-side activity (Raikes and Davies 2016). Some northern cities are already setting out their strategies for inclusive growth, and even aligning this with industrial strategy objectives: Greater Manchester is already seeking to use its skills powers to prioritise sectors which offer entry-level jobs to be taken up by those who are the focus of public service reform (GMCA et al 2014).</p>

<p class="body_para">However, any broad, place-based industrial strategy &ndash; let alone one focused on inclusive growth &ndash; will only succeed if it is founded upon strong and resilient local economies. The focus of this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report will therefore now shift to the importance of local economic resilience, followed by a series of resilience profiles assessing the economic strengths and weaknesses of the North&rsquo;s 11 local enterprise partnership areas.</p>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 1.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Elements of an industrial strategy for the North</p>

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</div></article><article id="understanding-economic-38-160-resilience" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">2.</span><span class="chapter-title">Understanding economic&#160;resilience</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">The ability to adapt to any economic turbulence ahead will vary from area to area. Chapter 2 introduces the concept of economic resilience: it first sets out how this concept can be defined, before looking at different ways in which it can be measured, and then setting out our methodology for this project.</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.1-defining-resilience">2.1 Defining resilience</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">Defining resilience is a complex but important task. For obvious reasons, the subject has received much attention &ndash; the financial crash clearly had an impact on policymakers and academics. However, for perhaps less obvious reasons, the field has been of increasing prominence since the turn of the century &ndash; driven largely by the long-term decline of industry in developed countries (Christopherson et al 2010).</p>

<p class="body_para">For many, the concept remains somewhat &lsquo;fuzzy&rsquo; (ibid, Pendall et al 2009). Many definitions require some kind of &lsquo;normal&rsquo; to be defined, so that an economy&rsquo;s ability to remain in this state can be derived: resisting or absorbing a shock in employment or output; recovering quickly to such a shock; or maintaining core system performance (Martin et al 2013).</p>

<p class="body_para">Resilience clearly isn&rsquo;t simply a matter of how sharply an area or industry contracts or recovers. While useful context, these definitions fail to account for fundamental transformation as a response either to shock, or to long-term structural changes (Christopherson et al 2010). In response some have expanded the scope of resilience to be more conceptual and so incorporate diversity, modularity, social capital, innovation, overlap, tight feedback loops and ecosystem services; pushed a little further, resilience is seen by some as &lsquo;dynamic adaptation&rsquo; (Lewis and Conaty 2012, Greenham et al 2013).</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.2-measuring-resilience">2.2 Measuring resilience</p>

<p class="body_para">The focus of this report is on how well prepared areas are for the years of uncertainty ahead. While the concept of resilience is itself the subject of debate, there is some consensus that a number of factors will help an economy to survive and adapt to changes. Martin and Sunley (2014) set out a framework that we will develop, illustrated in figure 2.1.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Others have given more tangible form to this framework, and some have sought to aggregate a number of measures into a single index. The OECD makes use of a number of social and environmental indicators to inform its work on city resilience &ndash; in the economy domain, it is diversity, dynamism, innovation and employment and skills which are the priority (Saya 2016). Local and regional governments in the UK have used a range of common indicators as proxies for these: Advantage West Midlands used workforce skills, employment rates and business turnover (AWM 2010); Ekosgen used a similar set of indicators when they analysed the resilience of Sheffield city-region (Ekosgen 2009). Some organisations have sought to incorporate environmental and social considerations into their measurements (Greenham et al 2013) &ndash; however, given the focus of this report on post-Brexit economic resilience, we do not take these into our own analysis.</p>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 2.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Resilience can be determined by the interaction of four economic&nbsp;subsystems<br />
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Determinants of regional economic resilience</em></p>

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<p class="subhead_1" id="2.3-our-methodology">2.3 Our methodology</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">We draw on the above research, but adapt it to the current situation: that is, with the North and the nation on the brink of Brexit. In the case studies in chapters 4&ndash;6 we have attempted to summarise each of the 11 northern LEP areas from a resilience perspective, using both data analysis and qualitative judgement where appropriate. The picture will inevitably be incomplete, and not all of the above determinants of resilience can be measured: some factors are determined nationally, and are therefore irrelevant for local comparisons (national economic policies for example); others are not measured locally (such as debt structure and financial strength) even though it would be helpful if they were. Some indicators require proxies (we used business registration rate as a measure of entrepreneurship); and others are qualitative judgements made on the best evidence available (those related to governance especially). It is important to note that some of these indicators could be interpreted differently: for example, having a large output from tradables is often seen as strength, but here we regard it with more caution because trade is under threat from Brexit.</p>

<p class="body_para">Bearing in mind these different considerations we have developed the following 20 indicators that relate to economic resilience:</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Sector diversity &ndash; measured in absolute terms by the Herfindahl-Hirschman index</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">knowledge-intensive business services employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">high-tech employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">output from tradable goods</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">location quotients</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">shift share analysis.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Qualification level of working-age residents</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">local graduate retention</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">commuting rates</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">job density</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">unemployment rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">employment rate.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Business registration rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">business three-year survival rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">self-employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">high-growth SMEs</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">SME investment in R&amp;D.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Assessment of progress on devolution</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">local spending on planning and development per capita</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">growth deal per capita.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Using these indicators we have built up a &lsquo;resilience profile&rsquo; for each of the 11 local enterprise partnership areas across the North. However, each of these profiles begins by setting the LEP in an international context. Even without Brexit it would be vital to compare northern subregions with those in Europe &ndash; it is often these areas with which they are competing for investment and trade, rather than just neighbouring regions in the UK. We have done this by taking a typology developed by Aumayr (2007), and adapting this to northern LEP geographies using a methodology developed by de&nbsp;Beer&nbsp;et al (2014).</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-7">The detail of this typology is included in the annex of this report but in broad terms the 11 northern LEPs are categorised by:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">their metropolitan status</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">whether they are rural or urban</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">whether they are central or peripheral</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the proportion of employment in industry</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the relative productivity of their industry</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the relative productivity of their services sector</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the prevalence of tourism</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">the prevalence of agrarian activities.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Based on this, the North&rsquo;s subregions fall into three broad categories.</p>

<ol>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Metropolitan areas: </strong><strong class="medium CharOverride-3">this includes Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, and Sheffield city-region, which compare with a range of European cities, including major capitals such as Brussels Capital Region, and Ile de France</strong></li>
	<li class="number_list_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Urban areas: </strong><strong class="medium CharOverride-3">this includes Cheshire and Warrington, Tees Valley, Liverpool city-region and North Eastern and Lancashire &ndash; some of which are conventionally regarded as quite rural, but have an economy concentrated in their small cities, and are significantly less rural than many European areas. These compare to areas such as Nord Pas de Calais and Darmstadt.</strong></li>
	<li class="number_list_1_last ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Rural areas</strong>: this includes Cumbria, York, North Yorkshire and East Riding, and the Humber. These compare to areas like Basilicata, La Rioja and Munster.</li>
</ol>
</div>
</div></article><article id="analysis" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">3.</span><span class="chapter-title">Analysis</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="chapter_subhead ParaOverride-19">local economic resilience across the north of England</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="3.1-findings">3.1 Findings</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-2">The North&rsquo;s resilience is as varied as its geography. The indicators are summarised in figures 3.1 to 3.4, and taken collectively present a picture &ndash; albeit partial &ndash; of the relative resilience of northern LEPs. However, measuring resilience is not an exact science &ndash; nor is it purely a quantitative task, requiring qualitative assessment and judgement. Based on this analysis we grouped the North&rsquo;s LEPs into the following three categories.</p>

<ol>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resilient or prosperous:</strong> areas that are relatively well prepared, with a diverse economy and strong labour market &ndash; Cheshire and Warrington, and York North Yorkshire and East Riding fall into this category. These will require an approach that boosts innovation in their thriving sectors to world-class status, and transport connectivity that enables neighbouring regions to benefit from their&nbsp;growth.</li>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dynamic but vulnerable:</strong> Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Lancashire, North Eastern and Liverpool city-region have a diverse or diversifying economic base, but have some structural flaws, especially compared to similar city-regions in the EU &ndash; primarily in their labour market, but also in their connectivity with one another. These will require an approach that accelerates this transformation by connecting these major cities with one another so that innovation spillovers are maximised and further focus on education and skills.</li>
	<li class="number_list_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dependent or vulnerable:</strong> the Humber, Tees Valley, Sheffield city-region and Cumbria are all areas that have not yet diversified, are reliant on a single industry or small group of industries, and still have significant structural issues to overcome. These urgently need support to avoid the risk of yet further decline, and in many cases there is mutual benefit in connecting these areas to their more prosperous neighbours.</li>
</ol>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Business base</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</figure>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-2">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Labour force</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-3">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Entrepreneurialism</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-4">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 3.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Governance</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-21">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="subhead_1" id="3.2-priorities">3.2 Priorities</p>

<p class="body_para">The government&rsquo;s place-based industrial strategy must build resilient local economies across the North. It cannot just subsidise large employers already here to persuade them to stay, it must aim to diversify the North&rsquo;s economy, and resolve some of the fundamental challenges that persist &ndash; in&nbsp;the supply of skills, transport connectivity, and the lack of innovation.</p>

<p class="body_para">In order to take forward this approach, the third main recommendation for this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report is driven from the bottom-up.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Recommendation 3: The North&rsquo;s LEPs, working closely with relevant local and combined authorities, should each conduct a resilience audit that sets out in detail the threats to their economy in the wake of Brexit. This audit should then be used to inform a strategic response, and a set of asks from the government that are tailored to acting on this strategy as part of a new round of devolution deals with each LEP area that mesh LEP priorities with those of the industrial strategy being developed by central government.</strong></p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">The remainder of this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report assesses each of the LEPs in turn. First we turn to the core cities of the North: Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Liverpool city-region, the North East and Sheffield. We then analyse the (often polycentric) urban areas that are often adjacent to these core cities: Cheshire and Warrington, Tees Valley and Lancashire. Finally, we assess the more rural and peripheral areas of the North: Cumbria, the Humber and York, and North Yorkshire and East Riding.</p>
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</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-metropolitan-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">4.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: metropolitan areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 4.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Metropolitan, non-industrial areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
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<p class="subhead_1" id="4.1-greater-manchester">4.1 Greater Manchester</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Greater Manchester is the second largest metropolitan hub in the North. Its scale is significant: it has a population of 2.8 million a GVA of &pound;56&nbsp;billion (larger than that of Wales).<span class="CharOverride-4"><span id="footnote-002-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-002">1</a></span></span> The city&rsquo;s horizons have always reached beyond UK borders, but compared to similar regions in Europe it is only middle ranking: it has a population the size of Lisbon&rsquo;s; an economy the size of Prague&rsquo;s; productivity levels that compare to Berlin; and a rate of unemployment similar to Rotterdam and Warsaw. It is highly dynamic and able to adapt, but its labour force leaves it more vulnerable than it should be to any future difficulties.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Greater Manchester has a diverse and modern economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Diversity is high, with thriving modern and trading sectors.</strong> It has the second-lowest specialisation index of northern LEPs, its high-tech sector is the largest of the core cities (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and knowledge-intensive business services employment is second highest only to Cheshire and Warrington in the North (at 14.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) &ndash; both these sectors are growing faster than wider trends; however, tradable sectors account for a low 29.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of output.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-8">Greater Manchester: The economy is diverse with disproportionate growth in both knowledge-intensive business services and high-tech manufacturing<br />
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-23">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There is a large pool of talent to draw on, but low resident qualifications mean many are excluded.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-15"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a large labour pool, but qualification rates are low.</strong> Retention of residents who have graduated is high (81.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 15,000 more graduates move in each year than leave &ndash; and yet only a third (33.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) of residents have degree-level qualifications,<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-001-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-001">2</a></span></span> and 10.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Job creation fails to keep up with population growth</strong>. Despite its vibrant economic base, there are only 71.5 jobs for every 100 working-age residents; although 22,000 more people commute into the city than leave for work and 89.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work there.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-24"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is low</strong>. The unemployment rate is quite high, at 6.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although the proportion of JSA claimants claiming for more than six months is slightly below average, at 45&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; and the employment rate is below average, at 70.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy is dynamic and innovative.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is high rate of businesses churning in the economy</strong>. Business registration was a healthy 3.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent a year, but only 57.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent survived three years, and self-employment is below average (13&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to reach high growth rates</strong>. 6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups managed to achieve a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years (among the highest of English LEP areas), although SME investment in R&amp;D was relatively low (15&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region is an exemplar for devolution and governance in the UK.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">City-region institutions are strong, well established and cohesive.</strong> Decades of city-wide collaboration crystallised with the country&rsquo;s first combined authority in 2011 and a mayor will be elected in 2017.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The results of good governance are being recognised.</strong> Not only did the city-region secure &pound;533 million (&pound;193 per capita), but it is exercising some control over &pound;6 billion of health and social care spending; planning and development spending is also high, at &pound;24&nbsp;per capita.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="4.2-leeds-city-region">4.2 Leeds city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Leeds city-region sits at the core of the northern powerhouse. With 3&nbsp;million people and &pound;63 billion economic output, it is the largest LEP area outside London. Like many UK cities, it deindustrialised long ago, however, unlike these cities it suffers from low productivity &ndash; behind Greater Manchester and Sheffield who share its service-oriented economy, and also behind Birmingham and Glasgow city-regions. Among similar city-regions it has more in common with Athens than with other mid-ranking continental cities such as Prague or Vienna. It is one of the dynamic but vulnerable parts of the North: with a diverse economy, but a labour force that needs to adapt.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has a diverse and modern metropolitan economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economy is diverse and service-oriented.</strong> It has the most diverse economy in the North, with a relatively low share of public sector employment (18.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), it has a larger manufacturing base than other northern cities (10.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and high-tech employment is 5.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (although falling disproportionately), and knowledge intensive business services employment is high compared to northern areas &ndash; below the national concentration (13.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but catching up. Despite a small advanced manufacturing sector, the area has an above average share of GVA from tradables (32&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), due to its service sector.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Leeds city-region: There are a range of specialisms in this diverse economy, and modern sectors are growing<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
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<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Leeds city-region has a more self-contained labour market.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-25"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Despite its strong higher education sector, the skills of the overall workforce are low.</strong> Residents who graduate tend not to stay in Leeds as much as in other major cities (74.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and only a relatively small number of students flow in (1,300); only 31.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess degree-level qualifications and 9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The labour market is self-contained.</strong> Job density is about average at 75.7 jobs for every 100 residents, but the LEP covers a large area containing many towns and cities &ndash; as a result 93.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work within the LEP area, and only marginally more (860) come in than leave.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">However, economic inclusion is average.</strong> Unemployment is slightly higher than average (5.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the employment rate is slightly poorer than nationally (72.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the long-term JSA claimant proportion is slightly lower (44.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">New businesses tend to be healthy and dynamic.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The area appears to be quite entrepreneurial</strong>. Self-employment is 13.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, business registration is 3.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and 60.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of businesses survive their first three years (these compare very well with other northern city-regions).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to be quite innovative and many reach high turnover rates</strong>. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invest in R&amp;D, while 6.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent reach &pound;1 million turnover in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-4">Leeds city-region&rsquo;s LEP has been successful in drawing down money from central government, but its lack of governance reform has held back devolution.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-13"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Progress on devolution has been held back over geography and forms of governance.</strong> There is a combined authority, but unlike Greater Manchester its geography doesn&rsquo;t match with that of the LEP or the historic West Yorkshire county. There has been a devolution deal but devolution has so far been curtailed as local stakeholders fail to agree on whether to have a mayor or the geography over which they might exercise new powers.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-26"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">But this hasn&rsquo;t held it back from receiving government funding.</strong> The LEP has been highly successful in attracting funds from central government, securing &pound;628 million (&pound;207&nbsp;per resident) &ndash; the most generous of any growth deal &ndash; but it is middle ranking for spending on planning and development per capita, at &pound;18 per resident.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="4.3-sheffield-city-region">4.3 Sheffield city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">Sheffield city-region&rsquo;s economy falls between two stools: it has both the service-intensive economy of the major metropolitan areas and the high-tech economy of the urban areas but it fails to specialise in either of these. It has higher GVA per capita than neighbouring Leeds CR, but in other respects has more in common with the urban areas that are still struggling to transition from post-industrial to modern, prosperous regions. Its economy is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The business base lacks diversity and is still in transition from its industrial past.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is lacking in diversity or modern sectors</strong>. Sector diversity is lower than the other major cities and it retains a relatively large proportion of employment in manufacturing, which makes up 11.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment, and although only 5.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment is in high-tech this is increasing ahead of wider trends; knowledge-intensive business services employment is relatively low (9.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and in relative decline, while the public sector makes up a high 21.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent. The city does not export very much: at 29.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent its tradable share of output is the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Sheffield city-region: Employment isn&rsquo;t diverse, nor is it diversifying quickly<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
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<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city has major labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Qualification levels are poor &ndash; though not as bad as the North&rsquo;s other metropolitan areas.</strong> Only a small proportion are degree-level qualified (28.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), while 9.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent hold no qualifications at all; graduate retention is poor (70.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 15,000 more graduates leave each year than move in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Part of the problem is lack of jobs.</strong> There are only 69.6 jobs per 100 residents, only 86.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the city-region (second lowest of the North&rsquo;s major cities), and 14,800 more people leave than come into the region to work.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">And too many don&rsquo;t work at all.</strong> Unemployment remains relatively high at 6.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, as does the proportion of long-term JSA claimants (47.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and the employment rate is low at 71.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Entrepreneurialism is about average, but a fair number of firms thrive.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high rate of startups but a relatively high number fail</strong>. New business registration is a relatively high 3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but the three-year survival rate is a relatively low 59.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; the area has below average self-employment (12.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-5">Innovation appears quite high and a good proportion do very well</strong><span class="CharOverride-5">. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of SMEs invested in R&amp;D, and a relatively high proportion of startups reached &pound;1 million turnover in these three years &ndash; 7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (higher than Greater Manchester or Leeds city-region). </span></li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is well established though must keep pace with other northern cities.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance is relatively strong</strong>. The area has established a combined authority, and will elect a mayor in 2017, but there are challenges concerning its overlap with the D2N2 local enterprise partnership<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-000-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-000">3</a></span></span> &ndash; stretching across into the East Midlands region &ndash; and its devolution deal is less expansive than elsewhere.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">A growth deal will help the city-region invest.</strong> The LEP was able to secure &pound;177 per capita in its recent growth deal &ndash; the third-highest funding per capita in the North &ndash; and at &pound;18 per capita, it is middle ranking in its spend on planning and development.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-002-backlink" id="footnote-002">1</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</div>

<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-001-backlink" id="footnote-001">2</a> All references to &lsquo;degree-level qualifications&rsquo; mean NVQ level 4 or above.</p>
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<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-000-backlink" id="footnote-000">3</a> Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire LEP.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-urban-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">5.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: urban areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 5.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-4">Urban non-industrial areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1" id="5.1-liverpool-city-region">5.1 Liverpool city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Liverpool city-region has a deindustrialised economy, with low levels of employment in industrial activities, and productivity rate in the service sector that&rsquo;s relatively high.<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-003-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-5.xhtml#footnote-003">4</a></span></span> For this reason it reflects a cluster of highly tertiarised urban centres including four Dutch regions as well as some prosperous shires in the south of England but, despite some economic and geographical similarities, Liverpool city-region lacks their prosperity &ndash; in GVA per capita terms it ranks last of these &ndash; and within the North it sits alongside areas such as Tees Valley and the North East.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Niche specialisms have broken through in an otherwise lagging economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The city-region lacks sector diversity and depends on the public sector.</strong> It has the lowest diversity of the northern cities, with high public sector employment (22.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and low employment in manufacturing (7.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and high-tech (5.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and knowledge-intensive business services (10.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). Compared to wider trends, high-tech employment is falling but, encouragingly, knowledge-intensive business services employment is rising at a faster rate.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for 29.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional production &ndash; below UK and Northern average, reflecting both its deindustrialisation and a service sector that is on the rise.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Liverpool city-region: There is little specialism and few sectors are high growth, although there are signs of increasing modernisation<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has significant labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Despite strong universities, resident qualification levels are poor</strong>. Retention of resident graduates is very high (83.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the city fails to attract enough from elsewhere, meaning 6,700 more leave than come in; only 29.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents hold the equivalent of a degree and 11.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents have no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There simply aren&rsquo;t enough jobs to provide work for residents or attract people from elsewhere</strong>. Despite being a city, there are only 65.6 jobs for every 100 residents &ndash; the lowest job density in the North &ndash; and only 84&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area, with 100,000 residents leaving the area to work, and only 69,000 commuting in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">A large proportion of residents are excluded from the labour market.</strong> Unemployment is high, at 6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but long-term unemployment is a high 52.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and the employment rate is the lowest in the North, at 67.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There is no lack of entrepreneurial spirit, but few businesses survive or grow quickly.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high rate of business registration but a significant proportion fail.</strong> The business startup rate is a healthy 3.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (as high as 11&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent in 2015), but self-employment is low (11.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the three-year survival rate was 58.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; lower than most other northern city-regions.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to be highly innovative, but in general don&rsquo;t reach high rates of turnover</strong>. SME R&amp;D activity was the highest in the North (19&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but only 6.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups achieved a turnover of &pound;1 million after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is stronger than in many areas, and the area has been quite successful at winning funds from the government.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution is well under way.</strong> The city-region has a cohesive policy geography: the LEP and combined authority are well aligned with historic Merseyside boundaries; its devolution deal secured a range of powers; and a mayor will be elected in 2017.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Funding has been won &ndash; but not as much as in other northern cities</strong>. Liverpool city-region secured &pound;264 million in government funding through its growth deal (&pound;173 per resident) &ndash; in absolute and relative terms this is well above the LEP average but below Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield city-region &ndash; and at &pound;13 per capita, spending on planning and development is the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.2-north-eastern">5.2 North Eastern</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">The North Eastern LEP area has undergone major changes to its business base but continues to lag behind other parts of the north on a range of economic indicators &ndash; although recent trends are more encouraging. The region has much in common with &lsquo;post-industrial success stories&rsquo; &ndash; predominantly in the UK (Lancashire, Cheshire and Warrington, and Tees Valley in the North) and in the Benelux region. These tend to have an industrial sector that is highly productive relative to the rest of the economy, but is relatively low in employment. Compared to these areas, though, the North Eastern LEP area performs below average in terms of GDP per capita. It is a dynamic but vulnerable area that has historically suffered because of lower skills in its labour force.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Low sector diversity risks hindering prosperity.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area&rsquo;s economy isn&rsquo;t particularly diverse and growth is relatively slow in modern sectors. </strong>It is less diverse than LEP areas which include a core city, with a relatively high proportion of employment in the public sector (21.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and it has a high proportion of manufacturing (11.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and high-tech (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). However, its knowledge-intensive business services are underrepresented (10.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and increasing in employment far slower than nationally.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for 31.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output &ndash; broadly in line with UK figures.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-3">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">North Eastern: Diversity is low and modern sectors are falling behind<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has significant labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Residents&rsquo; qualification levels are low</strong>. A high proportion of residents who graduate stay in the city (79.9 per cent) than leave each year; however, the proportion of degree-level qualified residents is 30.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, while 10.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent hold no qualifications at all. However, these figures relate to the whole of the North East population, and the region&rsquo;s younger residents are relatively well qualified: qualification rates in Newcastle compare very favourably to other core cities, and&nbsp;there is a particularly high rate of vocational qualification in the LEP area.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">There aren&rsquo;t enough jobs to go round</strong>. Job density is low (69.2 per 100 residents), and while a high proportion of residents work in the area (94.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent): more than 49,000 residents commute outward &ndash;compared to 34,000 inward commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-29"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is still has some distance to travel. </strong>Despite impressive jobs growth in recent years the employment rate is low (69.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and there are high rates of unemployment (7.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), although the long-term JSA claimant proportion is about average (45.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-11">Business could be more dynamic, but a large number of startups are very successful.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Entrepreneurship is below average.</strong> Self-employment was among the lowest in the North (10.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and business registration and survival were just below average (2.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and 59&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent respectively.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Innovation is low but growth rates are high.</strong> SME investment in R&amp;D was 16&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but 7.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reached &pound;1 million turnover in three years &ndash; the highest rate in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Despite previous successes, governance is running into difficulties.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution showed initial progress but has recently encountered setbacks.</strong> The North East Combined Authority (NECA) aligned with the LEP and was set for a mayor &ndash; however, after internal differences devolution is now on hold and there are plans afoot for three of these local authorities to go it alone &ndash; Newcastle, Northumberland and North Tyneside.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">Its ability to spend on the local economy is more limited than in other northern cities. <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP has been relatively successful in securing funding from government. It secured the fifth-largest growth deal funding in the country (&pound;330 million), but at &pound;169 per resident this amounts to less than other major northern cities; spend on planning and development is low, at &pound;15 per capita.</strong></li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.3-cheshire-and-warrington">5.3 Cheshire and Warrington</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Cheshire and Warrington is the most productive economy in the North and compares well with similar regions in Europe. Its GVA per capita is far higher than most similar areas, and of these it comes third to Noord-Brabant and Antwerp in the whole EU. It is a polycentric economy, revolving around a number of thriving towns and the city of Chester. Its location &ndash; between Greater Manchester (with its airport) and Liverpool city-region (with its port), and on the border with Wales &ndash; means it is strategically placed to engage in the international value chain. It is a resilient and prosperous area.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A diverse business base underpins its economic resilience.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high degree of diversity and dynamism</strong>. It has the third-lowest specialisation index in the North, a large share of employment in high-tech (9.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; but in relative decline), knowledge-intensive business services (15.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; and rising ahead of broader trends) and low employment in the public sector (14.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and manufacturing (8.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable goods account for 41.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output &ndash; the highest figure in the North and second highest in England but could leave it vulnerable to turbulence ahead.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-4">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Cheshire and Warrington: Employment is diverse and growing strongly, with specialisms across several modern sectors<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A skilled labour force lies behind these cutting-edge industries and knowledge-intensive businesses.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Residents are highly qualified, but many new graduates tend to leave.</strong> 39.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent are degree-level qualified, but there is an annual net flow of graduates out of the area of 12,000.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Its labour market is an excellent provider of jobs.</strong> It has the highest job density in the North (85.6 jobs for every 100 working-age residents) and while a low proportion of residents work within the area (74.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) it provides employment for almost as many people from outside the area as Greater Manchester does (138,000).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is high.</strong> Unemployment is a low 3.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, relatively few JSA claimants have been claiming long-term (41.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the employment rate is a high 75.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Its economy is dynamic &ndash; especially for a non-metropolitan area.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Startup and survival rates are higher than similar areas.</strong> Self-employment is quite high (15.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and it has a healthy business registration rate of 3.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent a year and businesses tend to survive longer than in similar areas &ndash; 63.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of new businesses survive three years.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses do tend to be innovative, but don&rsquo;t tend to reach high growth rates &ndash; in line with similar areas</strong>. A high proportion of SMEs invested in R&amp;D (18&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but only 6.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups had a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is lagging behind other parts of the North, although the region has been successful in attracting growth deal funding.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance isn&rsquo;t as advanced as other areas.</strong> Unlike other parts of the North, there is no combined authority or potential for a mayor&ndash; largely as a result of the area sitting between two cities but not being one.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-31"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area has been successful in attracting growth deal funding</strong>. In the latest growth deal, the area secured &pound;172 per resident &ndash; the fourth-highest figure among LEPs without extensive devolved powers &ndash; but per capita spending on planning and development is the lowest in the North (&pound;17) and could undermine future growth potential.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.4-tees-valley">5.4 Tees Valley</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">Tees Valley is in the middle of a challenging transition. Like Cheshire and Warrington, and Lancashire, it is a post-industrial urban area, but unlike these areas it still has further distance to travel. It has lower productivity compared to its peers in the North (Cheshire and Warrington and Cumbria) and Europe(places such as Liege and Leipzig). Like these areas it has a high proportion of employment in industry; however, this industry has lower levels of productivity and is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-5">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.5</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Tees Valley: The public sector dominates and is growing disproportionately, but so are the high-tech and knowledge-intensive business services sectors<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="body_para_into_list">This sector-mix lacks diversity, although this is changing.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is the least diverse economy in the North, but high-tech is a particular strength</strong>. It has the highest specialisation index in the North, with high public sector employment (22.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and low employment in knowledge-intensive business services (11.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). However, while manufacturing employment isn&rsquo;t particularly high (9.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), a very high share of employment is in high-tech (9.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and both high-tech and knowledge-intensive business services are growing ahead of wider trends. Tradables make up one-third of the economy (32.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There are deep-seated problems in the labour market.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Qualification levels are low.</strong> Residents&rsquo; qualification levels are low, with 30.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent degree-level qualified and 10.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the working-age population having no qualifications. The relatively small number of people who graduate in the region tend to leave &ndash; there is a retention rate of 77.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and (a net outflow of 12,500).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The area fails to provide jobs for residents.</strong> There are only 66.9&nbsp;jobs per 100 working age residents, 86.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area (middle-ranking amongst northern LEPs) and 3,000 more leave to work than commute.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Many are excluded from the economy.</strong> The employment rate is a low 69&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and unemployment is a high 7.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although the proportion claiming JSA for six months is below average (43.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The business base is surprisingly dynamic.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a strong entrepreneurial economy</strong>. Self-employment is the lowest in the North (10.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the business registration rate was highest in the North &ndash; at 4.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent this was second only to London in England &ndash; and the three-year survival rate was 61&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (better than average).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">However, these don&rsquo;t tend to be high growth or innovative firms</strong>. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D, but only 5.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups make it to the &pound;1 million turnover mark.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Good governance hasn&rsquo;t yet been rewarded with funding.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Tees Valley has stronger governance than its neighbours, but is behind the North&rsquo;s major cities.</strong> The area has a combined authority, and will elect a mayor in 2017. However, its devolution deal lacks the skills and public service reform elements seen in some other deals.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">And direct funding hasn&rsquo;t been forthcoming from government.</strong> The LEP only secured &pound;156 per capita &ndash; this is less than most northern LEPs &ndash; however, spend on planning and development is quite high, at &pound;23 per resident.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.5-lancashire">5.5 Lancashire</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-8">Lancashire&rsquo;s impressive manufacturing reinvention has yet to pull the whole region out of long-term decline, but it is making progress. Its location and its connectivity are crucial assets &ndash; it is strategically positioned adjacent to both Greater Manchester and Liverpool city-regions. This has historically underpinned its manufacturing tradition, and has retained a relatively strong industrial base, but this is now a high productivity, not high employment, sector. In this, it is similar to post-industrial urban areas, found predominantly in the UK and in the Benelux region. However, compared to these, Lancashire fares worse than average for GDP per capita (due to poor service sector productivity). It is one of the most dynamic but vulnerable parts of the North.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The area lacks sector diversity but shows the beginnings of progress.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The economy isn&rsquo;t very diverse, but some of the sectors that dominate are modern. </strong>It is middle ranking within the North for economic diversification, due to both the dominance of manufacturing (20.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and high-tech makes up a relatively large share of employment (8.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but it also has a large share of employment in low-value service activities &ndash; knowledge-intensive business services account for only 9.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment, although this is growing disproportionately, as high-tech employment falls.<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable goods account for 32.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional economy.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-6">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.6</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Lancashire: Employment in the larger sectors isn&rsquo;t growing, but knowledge-intensive business services are on the increase<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Resident qualifications are poor, but the labour market functions well by connecting with its neighbouring cities.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Lancashire&rsquo;s skills base threatens to undermine progress</strong>. Only 30.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents have degree-level qualifications, and 10&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualification at all. Residents who graduate do tend to stay in the area (80.5 per cent doing so) with a net inflow of&nbsp;4,900.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Job creation isn&rsquo;t high enough to provide jobs for all residents</strong>. There are 75.5 jobs for every 100 working-age residents, and while 87.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area, there&rsquo;s a net outflow of 12,000 commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">These linkages appear to be working well for residents.</strong> Unemployment is below the national rate, at 4.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although a higher than average share has been claiming JSA longer than six months (46.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), while the employment rate is 74.2 &ndash; higher than nationally.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Businesses don&rsquo;t tend to be very dynamic or entrepreneurial.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The business base isn&rsquo;t particularly dynamic</strong>. There is a low rate of business registration (1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but quite a high rate of three-year survival (58.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses invest in R&amp;D but not many reach high growth rates</strong>. R&amp;D investment is high among SMEs (18&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) but only 6.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reach a &pound;1 million turnover in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-4">There is historic collaboration across the area, but devolution hasn&rsquo;t yet taken off.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-25"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP benefits somewhat from its rough alignment with an upper-tier authority.</strong> There are some other shared-service arrangements involving generally two or three local authorities, but there is no combined authority or devolution deal proposed.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">This may have held back government funding to an extent</strong>. Lancashire LEP secured &pound;251 million in government funding through its growth deal (&pound;170 per resident) &ndash; higher than average and the fifth-highest among LEPs without combined authorities &ndash; but at &pound;13 per resident, spending per capita on planning and development is one of the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

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<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-5.xhtml#footnote-003-backlink" id="footnote-003">4</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-rural-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">6.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: rural areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-1">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 6.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-5">Non-urban areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.1-cumbria">6.1 Cumbria</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">The Cumbrian economy combines the rural with the industrial.<span class="CharOverride-4"><span id="footnote-005-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-005">5</a></span></span> Its large territory belies a small economy, but this economy has pockets of highly productive industrial employment in what is otherwise a sparse and rural area. It is most similar to north-eastern Scotland within the UK, and to parts of rural Spain and Scandinavia in Europe. However, it is among the less prosperous of these areas: GVA per capita is below their average,<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-004-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-004">6</a></span></span> and it ranks 13th of 17 regions that fit this typology. Cumbria&rsquo;s role is nonetheless vital: its prime sectors &ndash; nuclear and defence &ndash; are of strategic national importance, while the Lake District is a natural asset which helps to underpin the North&rsquo;s attractiveness (NIER 2016). Its economy is, however, more vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy is not diverse, and modern sectors are lacking.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It relies on public sector employment and low-productivity manufacturing.</strong> It has a relatively high specialisation index, and a high proportion of employment in the public sector (23.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and manufacturing (16.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but low employment in both high-tech (4.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable sectors account for a healthy 36.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output, but this leaves the area quite vulnerable to any trade challenges in the years ahead.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-2">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Cumbria: Employment is strong and growing in manufacturing, but it lacks diversity<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>and modern sectors are falling behind<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The labour force is relatively self-sufficient and medium skilled.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Residents tend to be medium- to low-skilled.</strong> There are relatively fewer workers with degree-level qualifications (31&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but also fewer with no qualifications at all (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent); retaining residents who have graduated is a major problem &ndash; there is a net outflow of 22,000 new graduates a year and 72.8 per cent of residents who graduate stay in the area.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is quite self-sufficient</strong> <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">and provides jobs for residents elsewhere.</strong> 95.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents in employment work in the region and there is a net inflow of 17,000 people to work, and a healthy 85.5 jobs per 100 working-age residents.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is above average.</strong> The unemployment rate is a relatively low 4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and employment is a relatively high 76.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; however, a large proportion of JSA claimants have been claiming longer than six months (57.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-20">The economy lacks entrepreneurialism, but most businesses that start survive.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Business registration is low but survival is high</strong>. The business registration rate was only 1.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but 66.6 per cent of firms survived three years (the highest figure in the UK), and self-employment is also high, at 16&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-29"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Investment in R&amp;D is very low, and few of these firms reach high turnover quickly. </strong>Cumbrian SMEs don&rsquo;t tend to invest in R&amp;D (12&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; joint lowest in the North) and their startups are unlikely to have a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years (only 2.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Devolution hasn&rsquo;t yet taken hold in Cumbria.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is no combined authority yet.</strong> Cumbria has so far failed to establish a combined authority or sign a major devolution deal with government, though being a two-tier county this is perhaps more understandable and doesn&rsquo;t necessarily imply poor governance &ndash; discussions are ongoing.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP failed to win much growth deal funding.</strong> The local enterprise partnership managed to secure only &pound;47.7 million (&pound;96 per capita) &ndash; this is the lowest level of funding received in England both in absolute and in relative terms &ndash; and little is spent on planning and development (only &pound;18 per capita).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.2-humber">6.2 Humber</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">The Humber&rsquo;s once-prosperous economy is still adapting to globalisation. The region was once a powerhouse of industries that are now in decline: whether large-scale heavy industry and production of textiles, or fishing and agriculture. The Humber is one of many regions with such a history and composition &ndash; areas like the non-urban industrial heartlands such as the German L&auml;nder of Saxony and Bavaria &ndash; but even compared to these its GVA per capita is poor. Its economy is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The Humber relies on a handful of sectors, but its economy is positioned to trade strongly.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economic base lacks diversity and the manufacturing base needs further modernisation.</strong> It has one of the North&rsquo;s less diverse economies, and while it has high manufacturing employment (16.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) only 4.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment is in high-tech, and only 9.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent is in knowledge-intensive business services &ndash; both are declining at a rate that&rsquo;s disproportionate.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for a healthy 36.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the Humber&rsquo;s GVA &ndash; but this, of course, leaves it more exposed to any turbulence ahead.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-3">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Humber: Manufacturing dominates and is growing, but few other sectors thrive<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>and modern sectors are struggling<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The Humber&rsquo;s labour market has major challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resident qualification rates are low.</strong> It has the lowest share of highly qualified residents in the North: just 27.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess degree-level qualifications, and 9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of its residents have no qualification at all; graduate retention is a low 72.8 per cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economy has fewer jobs.</strong> There are only 70 jobs for every 100 working-age residents, with 89.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents working in the area, and a net outflow of 14,000 commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">This leaves many looking for work for a long time, or giving up.</strong> Unemployment is above average (6.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and employment is below (72.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and quite a high proportion of JSA claimants have been looking for work for more than six months (47&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy could be more dynamic but startups can be successful.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Businesses don&rsquo;t tend to start or do well in this area.</strong> Self-employment is low at 11.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and the business registration rate was only 1.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, with only 53.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of businesses surviving three years after their creation.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Businesses aren&rsquo;t innovative and but quite a high proportion reach high rates of turnover.</strong> Only 12&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D (joint lowest in the North with Cumbria) but 6.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reach a turnover of &pound;1 million in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-2">Poor governance adds to the area&rsquo;s difficulties, but it is planning for the future.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">No devolution has taken place in the Humber</strong>. The geography of devolution has been hotly contested in Yorkshire and within the LEP area itself, and this has held the Humber back &ndash; this is complicated further by the fact that the LEP area includes two local authorities that are part of the Greater Lincolnshire Combined Authority (GLCA)</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">However, the LEP has attracted a reasonable amount of funding.</strong> The LEP secured &pound;114 million of funding from the government (&pound;123 per resident), broadly in line with the average of English LEPs (albeit low in the North); however, the area spends &pound;26 per capita on planning and development &ndash; the highest in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.3-york-north-yorkshire-and-east-riding">6.3 York, North Yorkshire and East Riding</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">York, North Yorkshire and East Riding (YNYER) is a rural and relatively prosperous area within the North. It is one of few northern areas that is neither urban nor industrial &ndash; it has a great deal in common with southern and eastern LEPs in the UK, and places such as Galicia, Bretagne and Friesland in the rest of the EU. York is its only city, and its population is otherwise dispersed among a number of small towns. While it is a prosperous and productive area in its own right, it has important connections with the rest of the North &ndash; and especially Leeds city-region. It is a resilient and prosperous area.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economic base is both diverse and balanced between several sectors &ndash; but lacking any particular specialism.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economic base is diverse and isn&rsquo;t dominated by any particular sector</strong>. It has a specialisation index that is second only to Cheshire and Warrington of the non-metropolitan areas, and isn&rsquo;t dominated by either public sector employment (18.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) or manufacturing (10.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent); both the knowledge-intensive business services and high-tech sectors are smaller than average (9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and 5.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent respectively) and both are shrinking in relative terms.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">This is not an area geared strongly towards trading. The area does not have a strong base in tradables (30.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and lacks either the tradable services or the manufacturing base of many post-industrial towns elsewhere.</p>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-4">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">York, North Yorkshire and East Riding: Employment is distributed among a&nbsp;number of sectors, and growth in moderns sectors is low<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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</div>

<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A healthy labour market underpins this prosperity.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The population is highly qualified</strong>. It lacks the mass of students found elsewhere, has low graduate retention (67.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 14,000 more graduates leave than come in. However, 36.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have degree-level qualifications and only 6.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualifications.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Job density is average, but many residents commute to nearby city-regions.</strong> There are 78.1 jobs per 100 working-age residents, but a third of residents work outside the area (the highest of any northern LEP) and with 56,000 more people commuting out than commute in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">These linkages work well for residents.</strong> The unemployment rate is low (3.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), the long-term JSA claimant proportion is the lowest in the North (39.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and the employment rate is very high (79.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">New businesses survive well, but aren&rsquo;t particularly innovative or profitable.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Few businesses start but a large proportion survive. A high 17.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of workers are self-employed (among the highest rate in the country), and survival rates are high (61.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), although registration is low, at just 2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">These businesses don&rsquo;t grow fast or show much sign of innovation. Only 13&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D and only 4.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent make &pound;1&nbsp;million turnover after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance and funding let the area down.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance is a major challenge</strong>. There is no combined authority, it overlaps with two other LEPs &ndash; Leeds city-region and the Humber &ndash; and issues over Yorkshire&rsquo;s future devolution and governance remain unresolved.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area has missed out on vital funding.</strong> It only received &pound;98.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;capita in its growth deal &ndash; the second lowest in the North &ndash; but is among the highest spenders on planning and development in the North, at &pound;26 per capita.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-005-backlink" id="footnote-005">5</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-004-backlink" id="footnote-004">6</a> Median</p>
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		</div></div></article><article id="annex" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-title">Annex</span></h1><p class="body_para">The authors adapted and modified a typology developed by Aumayr (2007), also using the methodology of de Beer et al (2014) to adapt this to LEP and NUTS 2 areas. The following criteria were used to break European regions into 18 typologies.</p>
			<ol>
<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Metropolitan status:</strong> includes in its entirety a larger urban zone of more than 1.5 million people, or is the principal region covered by the larger urban zone (data on metro area population: Eurostat 2014).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Urban/non-urban:</strong> a region is classified as predominantly urban (PU) if it has more than 40 per cent of the population living in constituent NUTS3 regions that are classified as PU by Eurostat, and less than 33 per cent of the population living in NUTS3 regions that are classified as predominantly rural (PR) by Eurostat. A region is classified as PR if it has more than 33 per cent of the population living in NUTS3 regions that are classified as PR by Eurostat, and less than 40 per cent living in regions classified as PU by Eurostat. All others are classified as intermediate (IN), whether they have <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">both</em> more than 40 per cent living in PU and less than 33 per cent living in PR, or they have <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">neither</em>. In line with the typology developed by Aumayr (2007), there is a distinction in the typology framework between urban (PR) and non-urban (PR and IN). The NUTS3-to-NUTS2 conversion follows the methodology developed by de Beer et al (2014).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Central/peripheral:</strong> a region is classified as peripheral if it is either:<ul>
<li class="bullet_2 _idGenParaOverride-1">entirely insular, or </li>
<li class="bullet_2_last _idGenParaOverride-1">has a population density of less than 84.88 inhabitants per km<span class="CharOverride-4">2</span> (bottom third). </li>
</ul>
</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Industrial employment:</strong> a region with more than 15.32 per cent (median value) of employment in industry is classified as industrial.</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Relative sectorial productivity for industry (HIP/LIP):</strong> the index is calculated as the ratio between the share of GVA in industry and the share of employment in industry. A high industrial productivity region has a relative sectorial productivity index above 1.289 (median value).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Relative sectorial productivity for services (HSP/LSP):</strong> this index is calculated as the ratio between the share of GVA in services and the share of employment in services. A high service productivity region has relative sectorial productivity index above 0.986 (median value).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Tourist economy:</strong> regions are classified as tourist economies if they have more than 20 tourist beds per 1,000 inhabitants.</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Agrarian economy:</strong> regions are classified as agrarian if they have more than 10 per cent of their employment in agriculture.</li>
			</ol>
<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-7">There are far more categories than are necessary for the North’s 11 LEPs, but they are all listed below, with examples from among those LEPs where there is one or more.</p>
			<ol>
<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17">Metropolitan, industrial, high industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, industrial, low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, non-industrial, high services productivity (Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Sheffield city-region)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, non-industrial, low services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, industrial, high industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, industrial, low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial, high services productivity (Liverpool city-region)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial, low services productivity (Lancashire, Cheshire and Warrington, North Eastern, Tees Valley)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, agrarian</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, tourist</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial, high industrial productivity (Cumbria)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, non-industrial, high services productivity<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-006-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-8.xhtml#footnote-006">7</a></span></span>
</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, non-industrial, low services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, industrial, high industrial productivity (Humber)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, industrial low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, non-industrial, high services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last">Non-urban, central, non-industrial, low services productivity (York, North Yorkshire and East Riding).</li>
			</ol>
<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Comparator regions shown in figure 4.1</p>
			<table id="table001" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Metropolitan, non-industrial areas with relatively high services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Andalucía</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Área Metropolitana de Lisboa</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Attiki</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Campania</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Greater Manchester</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Île de France</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Közép-Magyarország</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lazio</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Leeds City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">London</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Mazowieckie</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Noord-Holland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Praha</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Région de Bruxelles-Capitale</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sheffield City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-f-row bas-row _idGenCellOverride-1">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Wien</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="subhead_2">Comparator regions shown in figure 5.1</p>
			<table id="table002" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial areas relatively high services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bratislavský kraj</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Darmstadt</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Eastern Scotland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Essex</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Flevoland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Gelderland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Hampshire and Isle of Wight</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Helsinki-Uusimaa</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Liguria</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Limburg (NL)</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Liverpool City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Vlaams-Brabant</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Surrey, East and West Sussex</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Utrecht</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial areas with relatively low services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Cheshire and Warrington</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Dorset and Somerset</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">East Wales</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Kent</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lancashire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Leipzig</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Noord-Brabant</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Nord - Pas-de-Calais</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">North Eastern</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Overijssel</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Antwerpen</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Hainaut</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Liège</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Tees Valley</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-f-row bas-row _idGenCellOverride-1">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">West Wales and The Valleys</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Comparator regions shown in figure 6.1</p>
			<table id="table003" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial areas with relatively low industrial productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Aragón</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Basilicata</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Castilla-la Mancha</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Comunidad Foral de Navarra</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Cumbria</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Dytiki Makedonia</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Etelä-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">La Rioja</p>
						</td>
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<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Länsi-Suomi</p>
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<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Norra Mellansverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
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						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Östra Mellansverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Steiermark</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sterea Ellada</p>
						</td>
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<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Västsverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-urban, central, non-industrial areas with relatively low services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bretagne</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Brabant Wallon</p>
						</td>
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<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Schleswig-Holstein</p>
						</td>
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<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
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<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
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<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
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						</td>
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<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Haute-Normandie</p>
						</td>
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<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Humber</p>
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Münster</p>
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Niederösterreich</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Nyugat-Dunántúl</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Oberösterreich</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Oberpfalz</p>
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
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							<p class="table_text_left_align">Schwaben</p>
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            <article id="summary" class="chapter current" style=""><div class="Chapter-frame"><div id="_idContainer020" class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-title">Summary</span></h1><p class="body_para">Last year’s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report was full of confident projections of northern powerhouse potential. In substantive terms, little has changed: this year the northern economy has passed the £300 billion mark, jobs growth has motored on, and northern regions topped this year’s EY Attractiveness Survey for foreign investment.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">However, dark clouds are gathering on the horizon following the events of the past six months that have engendered more than a wobble – uncertainty now pervades the northern mood. Regardless of current quarter on quarter national GDP growth, the decision to leave the EU will have a profound effect on the northern economy. Whether in terms of trade, access to skilled labour or EU funding programmes, the implications of Brexit on the North will be profound. There will be upsides of course but for the time being business is cautious and concerned.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">The political fallout from the Brexit vote has also been severe. The champions for the northern powerhouse in the national government – former chancellor George Osborne and financial secretary Jim O’Neill – have both departed the main stage. Meanwhile, devolution deals appear to have stalled, and the focus on regional rebalancing has now been subsumed into a wider initiative to develop an industrial strategy. </p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">All this, however, presents new opportunities. While Osborne’s approach was always too partial, piecemeal and parochial, Greg Clark’s ambition to create a ‘place-based industrial strategy’ led by the powerful new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has the potential to ignite a new era of economic activism around some of the North’s major economic strengths.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">Such developments are timely. Following on from IPPR North’s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Blueprint for a Great North Plan</em> in January 2016, which set out a framework for a modern industrial strategy, Transport for the North unveiled in June the results of the Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review. The review identified four ‘primary economic capabilities’ where the North has been shown to have world-class assets and a further three ‘enabling capabilities’ that will underpin this potential.</p>
			<p class="body_para">Add to this the excellent progress being made in building powerhouse capacity in relation to transport infrastructure, finance, trade and investment; the northern powerhouse strategy and northern powerhouse schools strategy published alongside the chancellor’s autumn statement; and there should be cause for cautious optimism. Instead though, wider events mean that business confidence is weak and once again, the prospects of inclusive growth in the North are looking as distant as ever.</p>
			<p class="body_para">Our <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North 2016</em> report focuses on three key issues that will build business confidence in an era of increasing uncertainty.</p>
			<p id="securing-a-united-northern-voice-at-the-brexit-negotiating-table" class="subhead_1">Securing a united northern voice at the Brexit negotiating table</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4">The North has distinct economic assets and interests that present both opportunities and threats as the UK prepares to leave the European Union. However, the fledgling and patchy development of combined authorities, metro mayors and devolution deals in the North means that the region is not well placed to formulate a coherent response to Brexit. It will therefore struggle to match the response of the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales, or of the mayor of London or other well-established lobbying groups.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-5"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 1:</strong> <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">IPPR North calls for the formation of a Northern Brexit Negotiating Committee to determine the type of Brexit that would best suit the North, to speak with one voice in the negotiations, and to build direct relationships with regions and nations within and beyond the EU in order to develop and enhance its particular trade interests.</strong></p>
			<p id="establishing-clear-principles-for-a-place-based-industrial-strategy" class="subhead_1">Establishing clear principles for a place-based industrial strategy</p>
			<p class="body_para_into_list">The government’s industrial strategy represents an opportunity not only to address the implications of Brexit but also to take a more proactive approach to many of the structural challenges facing the UK economy, not least regional rebalancing. There are numerous ‘types’ of industrial strategy with varying degrees of intervention. IPPR has set out four clear ‘objectives’ that any new approach must address including the need to develop a strong spatial dimension to enable all parts of the country to contribute to its prosperity, but IPPR North believes that industrial strategy must adopt three ‘place-based principles’. </p>
			<ul>
<li class="bullet_1">
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Regional differentiation:</em> Develop a more sophisticated understanding of what drives growth in different types of region rather than the hitherto insufficient account of growth focused on urban agglomeration.</li>
				<li class="bullet_1">
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Co-ordinated investment:</em> Drive up public investment in infrastructure, research and development and other economic assets to match private sector investment and act as a catalyst for business innovation and smart specialisation.</li>
				<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6">
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution:</em> Develop and enhance its approach to devolution both to regional and local tiers of government with a much greater emphasis on fiscal powers to enable subnational bodies to direct investment on local economic opportunities.</li>
			</ul>
<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 2: IPPR North calls upon government to adopt a place-based approach to industrial strategy with the three core principles of regional differentiation, coordinated investment and devolution as its foundation.</strong></p>
			<p id="focusing-on-local-economic-resilience-alongside-growth-and-devolution" class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">FOCUSING ON LOCAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE ALONGSIDE GROWTH AND DEVOLUTION</strong></p>
			<p class="body_para">The large majority of our <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North 2016</em> report focuses on the importance of building local economic resilience. As with industrial strategy, there is a rich literature on how local economies resist and recover from economic shocks. Building on the work of Martin and Sunley (2014), IPPR North has developed a resilience framework consisting of four factors, each with a set of key indicators, and has used these to profile each of the 11 local enterprise partnership (LEP) areas across the North of England.</p>
			<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-8">Our analysis finds that the North’s resilience is as varied as its geography, but we have been able to group the North’s LEP areas into the following categories.</p>
			<ol>
<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-9">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resilient or prosperous:</strong> areas that are relatively well prepared, with a diverse economy and strong labour market</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dynamic but vulnerable:</strong> areas where there is a diverse or diversifying economic base, but have some structural flaws, especially compared to similar city-regions in the EU</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last ParaOverride-10">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dependent or vulnerable:</strong> areas that are reliant on a single industry or small group of industries, and have significant structural issues to overcome.</li>
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<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 3: IPPR North recommends conducting LEP resilience audits. The North’s LEPs, working closely with relevant local and combined authorities, should each conduct a resilience audit that sets out in detail the threats to their economy in the wake of Brexit. This audit should then be used to inform a strategic response, and a set of asks from the government that are tailored to acting on this strategy as part of a new round of devolution deals with each LEP area.</strong></p>
		</div></div></article><article id="context" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">1.</span><span class="chapter-title">Context</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="chapter_subhead">Brexit and industrial strategy</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-11">The UK economy is set for a period of significant disruption. The EU referendum result pitched the nation into economic uncertainty, with Brexit itself looming just two years from April 2017. A new government has come to power, affording a prominent role to industrial strategy and inclusive growth. Meanwhile the northern powerhouse is now under new ownership with different ministers and new mayors soon to be elected in its major cities. These are significant changes, which will have a different effect on different parts of the North. Chapter 1 explores this changing context and argues that a principled, place-based industrial strategy could build a North that is more resilient to economic turbulence.</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.1-the-uk-and-the-european-union">1.1 The UK and the European Union</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-11">The nature of Brexit is subject to a range of political influences and decisions that are as yet unknown. The referendum vote signalled that the UK will leave the EU, but the terms of departure remain uncertain: parliament and various interest groups will seek to shape the settlement to their interests. The final deal will also be subject to the increasingly volatile politics of the EU itself and within some of its major constituent nations &ndash; France and Germany especially &ndash; which multiplies this uncertainty further. As a result some of the fundamental policies that underpin the UK economy are under threat, especially: trade policy, with the EU and other countries; migration policy with EU states; and foreign direct investment from within and outside the EU.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Uncertain politics makes for an uncertain economic outlook. Up until now the impact of the Brexit vote has been mixed: the first release of GDP since the referendum indicated only a marginal slip (post-referendum quarterly growth was 0.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, compared to 0.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent before); but the value of the pound has collapsed dramatically &ndash; the effective exchange rate (weighted for trade flows) has slipped to the lowest level on record (Hunter&nbsp;et al 2016). In this uncertain time, any forecast is to be treated with caution, but some of the major organisations that analyse the British economy have downgraded their forecasts for 2017 (see IMF 2016, OECD 2016). Moreover, the background economic conditions pre-Brexit were themselves far from healthy: economic growth has been low in the UK since the recession, while structural labour market issues and inequality persist.</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-3">Earlier this year, IPPR North published a report exploring these issues from the perspective of the north of England (Dickinson and Cox 2016). The report identified eight interrelated issues where the North is likely to have specific concerns on account of its distinctive economic mix. These concerns are specific to particular economic sectors that predominate in the North and where the region has particular economic strengths, such as advanced manufacturing, energy, health innovation and the digital economy. Related to each of these economic strengths are the following concerns:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">the North has a higher proportion of international trade with the EU than many other parts of the UK</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">sector-specific skills and labour market issues</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">engagement with pan-European innovation systems and access to particular streams of research funding</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-13">particular regulations and issues around public procurement, state aid and assisted areas</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">regional and subregional economic development funds.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">The impact of the EU on UK GDP is far larger than that of other countries. For example, it is around three times that of the US (3.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and four times that of the combined &lsquo;BRIC&rsquo; emerging economies (2.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) (Springford et al 2016). This is because EU &lsquo;value chains&rsquo; have strong multiplier effects throughout the economy, with manufacturing goods and service sector trade closely interrelated. Given that the EU-UK demand multiplier value is 2.4, it is estimated that a 1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent reduction in UK exports to the EU &ndash; equivalent to 0.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of UK GDP &ndash; leads to a reduction in UK GDP of 0.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; equal to our net EU budget contribution (ibid).</p>

<p class="body_para">These figures are, however, aggregated at the UK level. Critically, dependence on EU trade is far greater in the regions outside London. Academic research shows that most UK regions outside London are anything from 50 to 100&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent more dependent upon EU trade than London, and that they have become more dependent on EU trade since 2000, while London has become less dependent (McCann 2016). As a consequence, the impact of any reduction in EU trade will be significantly greater in the north of England and the Midlands than elsewhere. Ironically, it&nbsp;is those areas that voted in favour of Brexit where both local labour income&nbsp;and local productivity is likely to be most adversely affected.</p>

<p class="body_para">It is therefore essential that the North ensures that it has the tools it needs in order to both exploit the opportunities that Brexit offers, and mitigate the risks that it will pose.</p>

<p class="body_para">The fledgling and patchy development of combined authorities, metro mayors and devolution deals in the North means that the region is not well placed to formulate a coherent response to Brexit that will match those of the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, or that of the mayor of London or other well-established lobbying groups. Furthermore, it is quite impossible for central government to deal meaningfully with the demands of over 30 upper-tier local authorities, and 11&nbsp;local enterprise partnership areas, in the North one by one.</p>

<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Recommendation 1: A Northern Brexit Negotiating Committee should be established to determine the type of Brexit that best suits the North, to speak with one voice in the negotiations, and to build direct relationships with regions and nations within and beyond the EU in order to develop and enhance its particular trade interests.</strong></p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.2-place-based-industrial-strategy-and-inclusive-growth">1.2 Place-based industrial strategy and inclusive growth</p>

<p class="body_para">In part as a response to the implications of Brexit and the underlying sense of urgency for rebalancing the economy, the new government has set out its intention to develop and implement a &lsquo;place based&rsquo; industrial strategy to drive growth &lsquo;up and down the country&rsquo; (Clarke 2016, May 2016). The formation of a new department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is poised to intervene strategically in the economy, something which hasn&rsquo;t been done so overtly for many years. There is also a powerful economy and industrial strategy cabinet committee &ndash; chaired by the prime minister &ndash; geared towards this end. This approach will bring the UK into line with similar countries, such as Germany and France, who have a long history of being more interventionist in relation to regional economic development. Articulating her view on the government&rsquo;s new industrial strategy, the prime minister recently stated that:</p>

<p class="blockquote ParaOverride-14"><span class="CharOverride-2">&lsquo;</span>We will identify the sectors of the economy&hellip; that are of strategic importance to our economy, and do everything we can to encourage, develop and support them. And we will identify the places that have the potential to contribute to economic growth and become the homes to millions of new jobs. That means inspiring an economic and cultural revival in all of our great regional cities.<span class="CharOverride-2">&rsquo;</span></p>

<p class="blockquote_ref">May 2016</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-12">IPPR has already set out four clear objectives for a new national industrial strategy (Colebrook 2016). One of these objectives is the need to develop a strong spatial dimension to facilitate a more even spread of economic activity across the country. Building on this, it is crucial that the <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">geography</em> of industry is embedded in this new industrial strategy. Doing so should bring together five strands of policy:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-15"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Sectoral strategy.</strong> This focuses on enabling specific sectors to grow, for example by investing in specific technologies, or subsidising businesses directly, often without factoring in geographical considerations.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Regional strategy.</strong> This is concerned with the geography of economic growth, and is often simplified as a desire to &lsquo;rebalance the economy&rsquo;. This tends to focus non-sector specific or &lsquo;horizontal&rsquo; interventions at the regional level &ndash; such as transport investment, skills and innovation.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Smart specialisation.</strong> There is a further concept which sits at the juncture of these strategies: &lsquo;smart specialisation&rsquo;, which aims to understand and drive innovation. This concept originates within industrial theory, but more recently has been transposed onto regional economics (McCann and Ortega-Argil&eacute;s 2011).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution.</strong> Regional structures have now been replaced by far looser local enterprise partnerships across England, and far more focused combined authorities in some major cities. The lessons from Europe indicate that regional governments are very well placed to drive industrial strategy, and McCann (2016) concludes &ndash; from a comprehensive analysis of the UK economy &ndash; that institutional change and spatial rebalancing must go hand-in-hand.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Inclusive growth.</strong> For many years policymakers have made the mistake of overprioritising GDP growth as a policy objective. There has been some surprise that GDP growth hasn&rsquo;t improved living standards for many. This in turn has led to an academic and often abstract debate about how policy should go beyond GDP, or how economic growth can be made more &lsquo;inclusive&rsquo; (Stiglitz et al 2009, RSA 2016, Lupton et al 2016). It has been clear for some time that, alongside GDP (or GVA), policymakers should prioritise employment, wages, progression and the inclusion of disadvantaged groups.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">Building on these five strands of policy, this <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report argues that any place-based industrial strategy should rest upon three principles that relate to the &lsquo;place&rsquo; element of industrial strategy.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 1: Regional differentiation.</strong> There is a need for a more sophisticated understanding of what drives growth in different types of region (OECD 2012, NEFC 2012). The role of cities is vital, but the agglomeration hypothesis is overplayed &ndash; a UK city with double the population of another comparable UK city will only be 1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent more productive &ndash; far less than in many similar countries (Ahrend et al 2015). Policy should instead draw on modern understandings of regional economics that, while accounting for the importance of cities, prioritise the wider region in both their analysis and the policy prognosis that results (McCann 2016).</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">Many smaller towns and cities make a significant contribution both individually and through their interactions with the bigger cities. Furthermore, in the North important prime capabilities &ndash; advanced manufacturing and energy sectors for example &ndash; are largely based outside cities, though they often rely on them for their supply chain and labour pool (Cox and Longlands 2016, NIER 2016). In order to account for this, place-based industrial strategy must allow for sufficient regional differentiation in terms of the sectors it chooses to prioritise, the investments it chooses to make, and the tools and powers it chooses to devolve.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 2: Coordinated investment. </strong>Building on principle 1, interactions need to happen between businesses within prime sectors; and between them and their supply chains, enabling capabilities and underpinning assets &ndash; especially the universities (McCann and Ortega-Argil&eacute;s 2011, NIER 2016)<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">. </strong>Infrastructure &ndash; including transport, broadband and facilities (such as lab space) &ndash; can enable the ecosystem that businesses need to develop organically; R&amp;D investment generates overspills within places; and transport infrastructure can broaden the labour force that a diverse business cluster has access to. There needs to be a significant increase in public investment in infrastructure, research and development and other economic assets to match private sector investment and act as a catalyst for business innovation and smart specialisation. Such investment needs to be coordinated both in terms of a sectoral and geographical approach but also between public and private partners.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-7"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 3: Devolution. </strong>In order to achieve principles 1 and 2 most effectively, central government needs to devolve further powers and collaborate with regional and local government. Regional government in Europe has proven highly capable of implementing industrial strategy. In the UK &ndash; especially the North &ndash; local government is both well informed about local economic capabilities, and in many areas is developing the institutions to take on a much greater level of responsibility in this regard. To date, however, devolution deals have been too partial and piecemeal and there needs to be a more radical consideration of the potential for greater fiscal devolution and powers held at a more strategic &lsquo;mezzanine&rsquo; tier &ndash; such as the North.</p>

<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 2: IPPR North calls upon government to adopt a place-based approach to industrial strategy with the three core principles of regional differentiation, coordinated investment and devolution as its foundation.</strong></p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.3-north-first-northern-potential-as-an-exemplar-for-industrial-strategy-and-inclusive-growth">1.3 North first: northern potential as an exemplar for industrial strategy and inclusive growth</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The North could be an exemplar region for place-based industrial strategy and inclusive growth. There are significant foundations on which to build, and demonstrable benefit from taking such an approach.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There are a number of assets that &ndash; with the right investment &ndash; could enable the North to thrive.</strong> The northern powerhouse agenda may lack definition, but it does speak to the North&rsquo;s economic potential: it is home to 15 million people; it contributes &pound;304 billion to UK economic growth; and it ties together 5 major cities, 8 major ports and 29 universities (Cox and Raikes 2015).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-16"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There are institutions taking form which could take it forward</strong><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">.</strong> The northern powerhouse has started to take shape: Transport for the North is soon to gain statutory status, and in May 2017 new metro mayors will be elected across a wide swathe of the North.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The prime and enabling capabilities of the North are well recognised, and understood by local stakeholders.</strong> Crucially, the North has already set out the prime capabilities that such an industrial strategy can harness, and the enabling capabilities that can support these. Transport for the North recently undertook the Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review (NIER), in which it analysed the concentration of sectors and listed the assets within the North. From this, the NIER set out the North&rsquo;s prime capabilities: advanced manufacturing, health innovation, energy and digital; and its enabling capabilities: financial and professional services, higher education and logistics (NIER 2016).</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">The North is also well placed to deliver <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">inclusive</em> economic growth. The combined authorities &ndash; with or without mayors &ndash; are able to bring together public service reform and economic policy within a place in a new and crucial way: for example by commissioning the work and health programme in a way which aligns with demand-side activity (Raikes and Davies 2016). Some northern cities are already setting out their strategies for inclusive growth, and even aligning this with industrial strategy objectives: Greater Manchester is already seeking to use its skills powers to prioritise sectors which offer entry-level jobs to be taken up by those who are the focus of public service reform (GMCA et al 2014).</p>

<p class="body_para">However, any broad, place-based industrial strategy &ndash; let alone one focused on inclusive growth &ndash; will only succeed if it is founded upon strong and resilient local economies. The focus of this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report will therefore now shift to the importance of local economic resilience, followed by a series of resilience profiles assessing the economic strengths and weaknesses of the North&rsquo;s 11 local enterprise partnership areas.</p>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 1.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Elements of an industrial strategy for the North</p>

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</div></article><article id="understanding-economic-38-160-resilience" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">2.</span><span class="chapter-title">Understanding economic&#160;resilience</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">The ability to adapt to any economic turbulence ahead will vary from area to area. Chapter 2 introduces the concept of economic resilience: it first sets out how this concept can be defined, before looking at different ways in which it can be measured, and then setting out our methodology for this project.</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.1-defining-resilience">2.1 Defining resilience</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">Defining resilience is a complex but important task. For obvious reasons, the subject has received much attention &ndash; the financial crash clearly had an impact on policymakers and academics. However, for perhaps less obvious reasons, the field has been of increasing prominence since the turn of the century &ndash; driven largely by the long-term decline of industry in developed countries (Christopherson et al 2010).</p>

<p class="body_para">For many, the concept remains somewhat &lsquo;fuzzy&rsquo; (ibid, Pendall et al 2009). Many definitions require some kind of &lsquo;normal&rsquo; to be defined, so that an economy&rsquo;s ability to remain in this state can be derived: resisting or absorbing a shock in employment or output; recovering quickly to such a shock; or maintaining core system performance (Martin et al 2013).</p>

<p class="body_para">Resilience clearly isn&rsquo;t simply a matter of how sharply an area or industry contracts or recovers. While useful context, these definitions fail to account for fundamental transformation as a response either to shock, or to long-term structural changes (Christopherson et al 2010). In response some have expanded the scope of resilience to be more conceptual and so incorporate diversity, modularity, social capital, innovation, overlap, tight feedback loops and ecosystem services; pushed a little further, resilience is seen by some as &lsquo;dynamic adaptation&rsquo; (Lewis and Conaty 2012, Greenham et al 2013).</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.2-measuring-resilience">2.2 Measuring resilience</p>

<p class="body_para">The focus of this report is on how well prepared areas are for the years of uncertainty ahead. While the concept of resilience is itself the subject of debate, there is some consensus that a number of factors will help an economy to survive and adapt to changes. Martin and Sunley (2014) set out a framework that we will develop, illustrated in figure 2.1.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Others have given more tangible form to this framework, and some have sought to aggregate a number of measures into a single index. The OECD makes use of a number of social and environmental indicators to inform its work on city resilience &ndash; in the economy domain, it is diversity, dynamism, innovation and employment and skills which are the priority (Saya 2016). Local and regional governments in the UK have used a range of common indicators as proxies for these: Advantage West Midlands used workforce skills, employment rates and business turnover (AWM 2010); Ekosgen used a similar set of indicators when they analysed the resilience of Sheffield city-region (Ekosgen 2009). Some organisations have sought to incorporate environmental and social considerations into their measurements (Greenham et al 2013) &ndash; however, given the focus of this report on post-Brexit economic resilience, we do not take these into our own analysis.</p>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 2.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Resilience can be determined by the interaction of four economic&nbsp;subsystems<br />
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Determinants of regional economic resilience</em></p>

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<p class="subhead_1" id="2.3-our-methodology">2.3 Our methodology</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">We draw on the above research, but adapt it to the current situation: that is, with the North and the nation on the brink of Brexit. In the case studies in chapters 4&ndash;6 we have attempted to summarise each of the 11 northern LEP areas from a resilience perspective, using both data analysis and qualitative judgement where appropriate. The picture will inevitably be incomplete, and not all of the above determinants of resilience can be measured: some factors are determined nationally, and are therefore irrelevant for local comparisons (national economic policies for example); others are not measured locally (such as debt structure and financial strength) even though it would be helpful if they were. Some indicators require proxies (we used business registration rate as a measure of entrepreneurship); and others are qualitative judgements made on the best evidence available (those related to governance especially). It is important to note that some of these indicators could be interpreted differently: for example, having a large output from tradables is often seen as strength, but here we regard it with more caution because trade is under threat from Brexit.</p>

<p class="body_para">Bearing in mind these different considerations we have developed the following 20 indicators that relate to economic resilience:</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Sector diversity &ndash; measured in absolute terms by the Herfindahl-Hirschman index</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">knowledge-intensive business services employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">high-tech employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">output from tradable goods</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">location quotients</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">shift share analysis.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Qualification level of working-age residents</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">local graduate retention</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">commuting rates</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">job density</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">unemployment rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">employment rate.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Business registration rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">business three-year survival rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">self-employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">high-growth SMEs</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">SME investment in R&amp;D.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Assessment of progress on devolution</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">local spending on planning and development per capita</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">growth deal per capita.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Using these indicators we have built up a &lsquo;resilience profile&rsquo; for each of the 11 local enterprise partnership areas across the North. However, each of these profiles begins by setting the LEP in an international context. Even without Brexit it would be vital to compare northern subregions with those in Europe &ndash; it is often these areas with which they are competing for investment and trade, rather than just neighbouring regions in the UK. We have done this by taking a typology developed by Aumayr (2007), and adapting this to northern LEP geographies using a methodology developed by de&nbsp;Beer&nbsp;et al (2014).</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-7">The detail of this typology is included in the annex of this report but in broad terms the 11 northern LEPs are categorised by:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">their metropolitan status</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">whether they are rural or urban</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">whether they are central or peripheral</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the proportion of employment in industry</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the relative productivity of their industry</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the relative productivity of their services sector</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the prevalence of tourism</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">the prevalence of agrarian activities.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Based on this, the North&rsquo;s subregions fall into three broad categories.</p>

<ol>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Metropolitan areas: </strong><strong class="medium CharOverride-3">this includes Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, and Sheffield city-region, which compare with a range of European cities, including major capitals such as Brussels Capital Region, and Ile de France</strong></li>
	<li class="number_list_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Urban areas: </strong><strong class="medium CharOverride-3">this includes Cheshire and Warrington, Tees Valley, Liverpool city-region and North Eastern and Lancashire &ndash; some of which are conventionally regarded as quite rural, but have an economy concentrated in their small cities, and are significantly less rural than many European areas. These compare to areas such as Nord Pas de Calais and Darmstadt.</strong></li>
	<li class="number_list_1_last ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Rural areas</strong>: this includes Cumbria, York, North Yorkshire and East Riding, and the Humber. These compare to areas like Basilicata, La Rioja and Munster.</li>
</ol>
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</div></article><article id="analysis" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">3.</span><span class="chapter-title">Analysis</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="chapter_subhead ParaOverride-19">local economic resilience across the north of England</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="3.1-findings">3.1 Findings</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-2">The North&rsquo;s resilience is as varied as its geography. The indicators are summarised in figures 3.1 to 3.4, and taken collectively present a picture &ndash; albeit partial &ndash; of the relative resilience of northern LEPs. However, measuring resilience is not an exact science &ndash; nor is it purely a quantitative task, requiring qualitative assessment and judgement. Based on this analysis we grouped the North&rsquo;s LEPs into the following three categories.</p>

<ol>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resilient or prosperous:</strong> areas that are relatively well prepared, with a diverse economy and strong labour market &ndash; Cheshire and Warrington, and York North Yorkshire and East Riding fall into this category. These will require an approach that boosts innovation in their thriving sectors to world-class status, and transport connectivity that enables neighbouring regions to benefit from their&nbsp;growth.</li>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dynamic but vulnerable:</strong> Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Lancashire, North Eastern and Liverpool city-region have a diverse or diversifying economic base, but have some structural flaws, especially compared to similar city-regions in the EU &ndash; primarily in their labour market, but also in their connectivity with one another. These will require an approach that accelerates this transformation by connecting these major cities with one another so that innovation spillovers are maximised and further focus on education and skills.</li>
	<li class="number_list_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dependent or vulnerable:</strong> the Humber, Tees Valley, Sheffield city-region and Cumbria are all areas that have not yet diversified, are reliant on a single industry or small group of industries, and still have significant structural issues to overcome. These urgently need support to avoid the risk of yet further decline, and in many cases there is mutual benefit in connecting these areas to their more prosperous neighbours.</li>
</ol>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Business base</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Labour force</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Entrepreneurialism</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 3.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Governance</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-21">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="subhead_1" id="3.2-priorities">3.2 Priorities</p>

<p class="body_para">The government&rsquo;s place-based industrial strategy must build resilient local economies across the North. It cannot just subsidise large employers already here to persuade them to stay, it must aim to diversify the North&rsquo;s economy, and resolve some of the fundamental challenges that persist &ndash; in&nbsp;the supply of skills, transport connectivity, and the lack of innovation.</p>

<p class="body_para">In order to take forward this approach, the third main recommendation for this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report is driven from the bottom-up.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Recommendation 3: The North&rsquo;s LEPs, working closely with relevant local and combined authorities, should each conduct a resilience audit that sets out in detail the threats to their economy in the wake of Brexit. This audit should then be used to inform a strategic response, and a set of asks from the government that are tailored to acting on this strategy as part of a new round of devolution deals with each LEP area that mesh LEP priorities with those of the industrial strategy being developed by central government.</strong></p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">The remainder of this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report assesses each of the LEPs in turn. First we turn to the core cities of the North: Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Liverpool city-region, the North East and Sheffield. We then analyse the (often polycentric) urban areas that are often adjacent to these core cities: Cheshire and Warrington, Tees Valley and Lancashire. Finally, we assess the more rural and peripheral areas of the North: Cumbria, the Humber and York, and North Yorkshire and East Riding.</p>
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</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-metropolitan-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">4.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: metropolitan areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-1">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 4.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Metropolitan, non-industrial areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
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<p class="subhead_1" id="4.1-greater-manchester">4.1 Greater Manchester</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Greater Manchester is the second largest metropolitan hub in the North. Its scale is significant: it has a population of 2.8 million a GVA of &pound;56&nbsp;billion (larger than that of Wales).<span class="CharOverride-4"><span id="footnote-002-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-002">1</a></span></span> The city&rsquo;s horizons have always reached beyond UK borders, but compared to similar regions in Europe it is only middle ranking: it has a population the size of Lisbon&rsquo;s; an economy the size of Prague&rsquo;s; productivity levels that compare to Berlin; and a rate of unemployment similar to Rotterdam and Warsaw. It is highly dynamic and able to adapt, but its labour force leaves it more vulnerable than it should be to any future difficulties.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Greater Manchester has a diverse and modern economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Diversity is high, with thriving modern and trading sectors.</strong> It has the second-lowest specialisation index of northern LEPs, its high-tech sector is the largest of the core cities (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and knowledge-intensive business services employment is second highest only to Cheshire and Warrington in the North (at 14.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) &ndash; both these sectors are growing faster than wider trends; however, tradable sectors account for a low 29.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of output.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-8">Greater Manchester: The economy is diverse with disproportionate growth in both knowledge-intensive business services and high-tech manufacturing<br />
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-23">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There is a large pool of talent to draw on, but low resident qualifications mean many are excluded.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-15"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a large labour pool, but qualification rates are low.</strong> Retention of residents who have graduated is high (81.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 15,000 more graduates move in each year than leave &ndash; and yet only a third (33.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) of residents have degree-level qualifications,<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-001-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-001">2</a></span></span> and 10.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Job creation fails to keep up with population growth</strong>. Despite its vibrant economic base, there are only 71.5 jobs for every 100 working-age residents; although 22,000 more people commute into the city than leave for work and 89.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work there.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-24"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is low</strong>. The unemployment rate is quite high, at 6.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although the proportion of JSA claimants claiming for more than six months is slightly below average, at 45&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; and the employment rate is below average, at 70.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy is dynamic and innovative.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is high rate of businesses churning in the economy</strong>. Business registration was a healthy 3.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent a year, but only 57.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent survived three years, and self-employment is below average (13&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to reach high growth rates</strong>. 6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups managed to achieve a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years (among the highest of English LEP areas), although SME investment in R&amp;D was relatively low (15&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region is an exemplar for devolution and governance in the UK.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">City-region institutions are strong, well established and cohesive.</strong> Decades of city-wide collaboration crystallised with the country&rsquo;s first combined authority in 2011 and a mayor will be elected in 2017.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The results of good governance are being recognised.</strong> Not only did the city-region secure &pound;533 million (&pound;193 per capita), but it is exercising some control over &pound;6 billion of health and social care spending; planning and development spending is also high, at &pound;24&nbsp;per capita.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="4.2-leeds-city-region">4.2 Leeds city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Leeds city-region sits at the core of the northern powerhouse. With 3&nbsp;million people and &pound;63 billion economic output, it is the largest LEP area outside London. Like many UK cities, it deindustrialised long ago, however, unlike these cities it suffers from low productivity &ndash; behind Greater Manchester and Sheffield who share its service-oriented economy, and also behind Birmingham and Glasgow city-regions. Among similar city-regions it has more in common with Athens than with other mid-ranking continental cities such as Prague or Vienna. It is one of the dynamic but vulnerable parts of the North: with a diverse economy, but a labour force that needs to adapt.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has a diverse and modern metropolitan economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economy is diverse and service-oriented.</strong> It has the most diverse economy in the North, with a relatively low share of public sector employment (18.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), it has a larger manufacturing base than other northern cities (10.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and high-tech employment is 5.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (although falling disproportionately), and knowledge intensive business services employment is high compared to northern areas &ndash; below the national concentration (13.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but catching up. Despite a small advanced manufacturing sector, the area has an above average share of GVA from tradables (32&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), due to its service sector.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Leeds city-region: There are a range of specialisms in this diverse economy, and modern sectors are growing<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Leeds city-region has a more self-contained labour market.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-25"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Despite its strong higher education sector, the skills of the overall workforce are low.</strong> Residents who graduate tend not to stay in Leeds as much as in other major cities (74.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and only a relatively small number of students flow in (1,300); only 31.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess degree-level qualifications and 9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The labour market is self-contained.</strong> Job density is about average at 75.7 jobs for every 100 residents, but the LEP covers a large area containing many towns and cities &ndash; as a result 93.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work within the LEP area, and only marginally more (860) come in than leave.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">However, economic inclusion is average.</strong> Unemployment is slightly higher than average (5.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the employment rate is slightly poorer than nationally (72.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the long-term JSA claimant proportion is slightly lower (44.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">New businesses tend to be healthy and dynamic.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The area appears to be quite entrepreneurial</strong>. Self-employment is 13.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, business registration is 3.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and 60.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of businesses survive their first three years (these compare very well with other northern city-regions).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to be quite innovative and many reach high turnover rates</strong>. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invest in R&amp;D, while 6.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent reach &pound;1 million turnover in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-4">Leeds city-region&rsquo;s LEP has been successful in drawing down money from central government, but its lack of governance reform has held back devolution.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-13"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Progress on devolution has been held back over geography and forms of governance.</strong> There is a combined authority, but unlike Greater Manchester its geography doesn&rsquo;t match with that of the LEP or the historic West Yorkshire county. There has been a devolution deal but devolution has so far been curtailed as local stakeholders fail to agree on whether to have a mayor or the geography over which they might exercise new powers.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-26"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">But this hasn&rsquo;t held it back from receiving government funding.</strong> The LEP has been highly successful in attracting funds from central government, securing &pound;628 million (&pound;207&nbsp;per resident) &ndash; the most generous of any growth deal &ndash; but it is middle ranking for spending on planning and development per capita, at &pound;18 per resident.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="4.3-sheffield-city-region">4.3 Sheffield city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">Sheffield city-region&rsquo;s economy falls between two stools: it has both the service-intensive economy of the major metropolitan areas and the high-tech economy of the urban areas but it fails to specialise in either of these. It has higher GVA per capita than neighbouring Leeds CR, but in other respects has more in common with the urban areas that are still struggling to transition from post-industrial to modern, prosperous regions. Its economy is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The business base lacks diversity and is still in transition from its industrial past.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is lacking in diversity or modern sectors</strong>. Sector diversity is lower than the other major cities and it retains a relatively large proportion of employment in manufacturing, which makes up 11.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment, and although only 5.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment is in high-tech this is increasing ahead of wider trends; knowledge-intensive business services employment is relatively low (9.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and in relative decline, while the public sector makes up a high 21.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent. The city does not export very much: at 29.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent its tradable share of output is the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Sheffield city-region: Employment isn&rsquo;t diverse, nor is it diversifying quickly<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city has major labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Qualification levels are poor &ndash; though not as bad as the North&rsquo;s other metropolitan areas.</strong> Only a small proportion are degree-level qualified (28.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), while 9.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent hold no qualifications at all; graduate retention is poor (70.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 15,000 more graduates leave each year than move in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Part of the problem is lack of jobs.</strong> There are only 69.6 jobs per 100 residents, only 86.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the city-region (second lowest of the North&rsquo;s major cities), and 14,800 more people leave than come into the region to work.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">And too many don&rsquo;t work at all.</strong> Unemployment remains relatively high at 6.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, as does the proportion of long-term JSA claimants (47.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and the employment rate is low at 71.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Entrepreneurialism is about average, but a fair number of firms thrive.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high rate of startups but a relatively high number fail</strong>. New business registration is a relatively high 3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but the three-year survival rate is a relatively low 59.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; the area has below average self-employment (12.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-5">Innovation appears quite high and a good proportion do very well</strong><span class="CharOverride-5">. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of SMEs invested in R&amp;D, and a relatively high proportion of startups reached &pound;1 million turnover in these three years &ndash; 7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (higher than Greater Manchester or Leeds city-region). </span></li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is well established though must keep pace with other northern cities.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance is relatively strong</strong>. The area has established a combined authority, and will elect a mayor in 2017, but there are challenges concerning its overlap with the D2N2 local enterprise partnership<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-000-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-000">3</a></span></span> &ndash; stretching across into the East Midlands region &ndash; and its devolution deal is less expansive than elsewhere.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">A growth deal will help the city-region invest.</strong> The LEP was able to secure &pound;177 per capita in its recent growth deal &ndash; the third-highest funding per capita in the North &ndash; and at &pound;18 per capita, it is middle ranking in its spend on planning and development.</li>
</ul>

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<div class="footnotes">
<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-002-backlink" id="footnote-002">1</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</div>

<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-001-backlink" id="footnote-001">2</a> All references to &lsquo;degree-level qualifications&rsquo; mean NVQ level 4 or above.</p>
</div>

<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-000-backlink" id="footnote-000">3</a> Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire LEP.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-urban-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">5.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: urban areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-1">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 5.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-4">Urban non-industrial areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1" id="5.1-liverpool-city-region">5.1 Liverpool city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Liverpool city-region has a deindustrialised economy, with low levels of employment in industrial activities, and productivity rate in the service sector that&rsquo;s relatively high.<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-003-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-5.xhtml#footnote-003">4</a></span></span> For this reason it reflects a cluster of highly tertiarised urban centres including four Dutch regions as well as some prosperous shires in the south of England but, despite some economic and geographical similarities, Liverpool city-region lacks their prosperity &ndash; in GVA per capita terms it ranks last of these &ndash; and within the North it sits alongside areas such as Tees Valley and the North East.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Niche specialisms have broken through in an otherwise lagging economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The city-region lacks sector diversity and depends on the public sector.</strong> It has the lowest diversity of the northern cities, with high public sector employment (22.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and low employment in manufacturing (7.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and high-tech (5.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and knowledge-intensive business services (10.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). Compared to wider trends, high-tech employment is falling but, encouragingly, knowledge-intensive business services employment is rising at a faster rate.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for 29.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional production &ndash; below UK and Northern average, reflecting both its deindustrialisation and a service sector that is on the rise.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-2">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Liverpool city-region: There is little specialism and few sectors are high growth, although there are signs of increasing modernisation<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has significant labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Despite strong universities, resident qualification levels are poor</strong>. Retention of resident graduates is very high (83.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the city fails to attract enough from elsewhere, meaning 6,700 more leave than come in; only 29.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents hold the equivalent of a degree and 11.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents have no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There simply aren&rsquo;t enough jobs to provide work for residents or attract people from elsewhere</strong>. Despite being a city, there are only 65.6 jobs for every 100 residents &ndash; the lowest job density in the North &ndash; and only 84&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area, with 100,000 residents leaving the area to work, and only 69,000 commuting in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">A large proportion of residents are excluded from the labour market.</strong> Unemployment is high, at 6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but long-term unemployment is a high 52.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and the employment rate is the lowest in the North, at 67.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There is no lack of entrepreneurial spirit, but few businesses survive or grow quickly.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high rate of business registration but a significant proportion fail.</strong> The business startup rate is a healthy 3.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (as high as 11&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent in 2015), but self-employment is low (11.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the three-year survival rate was 58.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; lower than most other northern city-regions.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to be highly innovative, but in general don&rsquo;t reach high rates of turnover</strong>. SME R&amp;D activity was the highest in the North (19&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but only 6.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups achieved a turnover of &pound;1 million after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is stronger than in many areas, and the area has been quite successful at winning funds from the government.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution is well under way.</strong> The city-region has a cohesive policy geography: the LEP and combined authority are well aligned with historic Merseyside boundaries; its devolution deal secured a range of powers; and a mayor will be elected in 2017.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Funding has been won &ndash; but not as much as in other northern cities</strong>. Liverpool city-region secured &pound;264 million in government funding through its growth deal (&pound;173 per resident) &ndash; in absolute and relative terms this is well above the LEP average but below Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield city-region &ndash; and at &pound;13 per capita, spending on planning and development is the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.2-north-eastern">5.2 North Eastern</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">The North Eastern LEP area has undergone major changes to its business base but continues to lag behind other parts of the north on a range of economic indicators &ndash; although recent trends are more encouraging. The region has much in common with &lsquo;post-industrial success stories&rsquo; &ndash; predominantly in the UK (Lancashire, Cheshire and Warrington, and Tees Valley in the North) and in the Benelux region. These tend to have an industrial sector that is highly productive relative to the rest of the economy, but is relatively low in employment. Compared to these areas, though, the North Eastern LEP area performs below average in terms of GDP per capita. It is a dynamic but vulnerable area that has historically suffered because of lower skills in its labour force.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Low sector diversity risks hindering prosperity.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area&rsquo;s economy isn&rsquo;t particularly diverse and growth is relatively slow in modern sectors. </strong>It is less diverse than LEP areas which include a core city, with a relatively high proportion of employment in the public sector (21.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and it has a high proportion of manufacturing (11.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and high-tech (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). However, its knowledge-intensive business services are underrepresented (10.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and increasing in employment far slower than nationally.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for 31.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output &ndash; broadly in line with UK figures.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-3">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">North Eastern: Diversity is low and modern sectors are falling behind<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has significant labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Residents&rsquo; qualification levels are low</strong>. A high proportion of residents who graduate stay in the city (79.9 per cent) than leave each year; however, the proportion of degree-level qualified residents is 30.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, while 10.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent hold no qualifications at all. However, these figures relate to the whole of the North East population, and the region&rsquo;s younger residents are relatively well qualified: qualification rates in Newcastle compare very favourably to other core cities, and&nbsp;there is a particularly high rate of vocational qualification in the LEP area.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">There aren&rsquo;t enough jobs to go round</strong>. Job density is low (69.2 per 100 residents), and while a high proportion of residents work in the area (94.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent): more than 49,000 residents commute outward &ndash;compared to 34,000 inward commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-29"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is still has some distance to travel. </strong>Despite impressive jobs growth in recent years the employment rate is low (69.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and there are high rates of unemployment (7.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), although the long-term JSA claimant proportion is about average (45.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-11">Business could be more dynamic, but a large number of startups are very successful.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Entrepreneurship is below average.</strong> Self-employment was among the lowest in the North (10.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and business registration and survival were just below average (2.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and 59&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent respectively.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Innovation is low but growth rates are high.</strong> SME investment in R&amp;D was 16&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but 7.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reached &pound;1 million turnover in three years &ndash; the highest rate in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Despite previous successes, governance is running into difficulties.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution showed initial progress but has recently encountered setbacks.</strong> The North East Combined Authority (NECA) aligned with the LEP and was set for a mayor &ndash; however, after internal differences devolution is now on hold and there are plans afoot for three of these local authorities to go it alone &ndash; Newcastle, Northumberland and North Tyneside.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">Its ability to spend on the local economy is more limited than in other northern cities. <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP has been relatively successful in securing funding from government. It secured the fifth-largest growth deal funding in the country (&pound;330 million), but at &pound;169 per resident this amounts to less than other major northern cities; spend on planning and development is low, at &pound;15 per capita.</strong></li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.3-cheshire-and-warrington">5.3 Cheshire and Warrington</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Cheshire and Warrington is the most productive economy in the North and compares well with similar regions in Europe. Its GVA per capita is far higher than most similar areas, and of these it comes third to Noord-Brabant and Antwerp in the whole EU. It is a polycentric economy, revolving around a number of thriving towns and the city of Chester. Its location &ndash; between Greater Manchester (with its airport) and Liverpool city-region (with its port), and on the border with Wales &ndash; means it is strategically placed to engage in the international value chain. It is a resilient and prosperous area.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A diverse business base underpins its economic resilience.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high degree of diversity and dynamism</strong>. It has the third-lowest specialisation index in the North, a large share of employment in high-tech (9.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; but in relative decline), knowledge-intensive business services (15.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; and rising ahead of broader trends) and low employment in the public sector (14.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and manufacturing (8.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable goods account for 41.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output &ndash; the highest figure in the North and second highest in England but could leave it vulnerable to turbulence ahead.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-4">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Cheshire and Warrington: Employment is diverse and growing strongly, with specialisms across several modern sectors<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A skilled labour force lies behind these cutting-edge industries and knowledge-intensive businesses.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Residents are highly qualified, but many new graduates tend to leave.</strong> 39.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent are degree-level qualified, but there is an annual net flow of graduates out of the area of 12,000.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Its labour market is an excellent provider of jobs.</strong> It has the highest job density in the North (85.6 jobs for every 100 working-age residents) and while a low proportion of residents work within the area (74.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) it provides employment for almost as many people from outside the area as Greater Manchester does (138,000).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is high.</strong> Unemployment is a low 3.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, relatively few JSA claimants have been claiming long-term (41.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the employment rate is a high 75.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Its economy is dynamic &ndash; especially for a non-metropolitan area.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Startup and survival rates are higher than similar areas.</strong> Self-employment is quite high (15.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and it has a healthy business registration rate of 3.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent a year and businesses tend to survive longer than in similar areas &ndash; 63.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of new businesses survive three years.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses do tend to be innovative, but don&rsquo;t tend to reach high growth rates &ndash; in line with similar areas</strong>. A high proportion of SMEs invested in R&amp;D (18&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but only 6.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups had a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is lagging behind other parts of the North, although the region has been successful in attracting growth deal funding.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance isn&rsquo;t as advanced as other areas.</strong> Unlike other parts of the North, there is no combined authority or potential for a mayor&ndash; largely as a result of the area sitting between two cities but not being one.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-31"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area has been successful in attracting growth deal funding</strong>. In the latest growth deal, the area secured &pound;172 per resident &ndash; the fourth-highest figure among LEPs without extensive devolved powers &ndash; but per capita spending on planning and development is the lowest in the North (&pound;17) and could undermine future growth potential.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.4-tees-valley">5.4 Tees Valley</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">Tees Valley is in the middle of a challenging transition. Like Cheshire and Warrington, and Lancashire, it is a post-industrial urban area, but unlike these areas it still has further distance to travel. It has lower productivity compared to its peers in the North (Cheshire and Warrington and Cumbria) and Europe(places such as Liege and Leipzig). Like these areas it has a high proportion of employment in industry; however, this industry has lower levels of productivity and is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-5">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.5</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Tees Valley: The public sector dominates and is growing disproportionately, but so are the high-tech and knowledge-intensive business services sectors<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="body_para_into_list">This sector-mix lacks diversity, although this is changing.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is the least diverse economy in the North, but high-tech is a particular strength</strong>. It has the highest specialisation index in the North, with high public sector employment (22.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and low employment in knowledge-intensive business services (11.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). However, while manufacturing employment isn&rsquo;t particularly high (9.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), a very high share of employment is in high-tech (9.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and both high-tech and knowledge-intensive business services are growing ahead of wider trends. Tradables make up one-third of the economy (32.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There are deep-seated problems in the labour market.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Qualification levels are low.</strong> Residents&rsquo; qualification levels are low, with 30.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent degree-level qualified and 10.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the working-age population having no qualifications. The relatively small number of people who graduate in the region tend to leave &ndash; there is a retention rate of 77.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and (a net outflow of 12,500).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The area fails to provide jobs for residents.</strong> There are only 66.9&nbsp;jobs per 100 working age residents, 86.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area (middle-ranking amongst northern LEPs) and 3,000 more leave to work than commute.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Many are excluded from the economy.</strong> The employment rate is a low 69&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and unemployment is a high 7.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although the proportion claiming JSA for six months is below average (43.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The business base is surprisingly dynamic.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a strong entrepreneurial economy</strong>. Self-employment is the lowest in the North (10.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the business registration rate was highest in the North &ndash; at 4.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent this was second only to London in England &ndash; and the three-year survival rate was 61&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (better than average).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">However, these don&rsquo;t tend to be high growth or innovative firms</strong>. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D, but only 5.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups make it to the &pound;1 million turnover mark.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Good governance hasn&rsquo;t yet been rewarded with funding.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Tees Valley has stronger governance than its neighbours, but is behind the North&rsquo;s major cities.</strong> The area has a combined authority, and will elect a mayor in 2017. However, its devolution deal lacks the skills and public service reform elements seen in some other deals.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">And direct funding hasn&rsquo;t been forthcoming from government.</strong> The LEP only secured &pound;156 per capita &ndash; this is less than most northern LEPs &ndash; however, spend on planning and development is quite high, at &pound;23 per resident.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.5-lancashire">5.5 Lancashire</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-8">Lancashire&rsquo;s impressive manufacturing reinvention has yet to pull the whole region out of long-term decline, but it is making progress. Its location and its connectivity are crucial assets &ndash; it is strategically positioned adjacent to both Greater Manchester and Liverpool city-regions. This has historically underpinned its manufacturing tradition, and has retained a relatively strong industrial base, but this is now a high productivity, not high employment, sector. In this, it is similar to post-industrial urban areas, found predominantly in the UK and in the Benelux region. However, compared to these, Lancashire fares worse than average for GDP per capita (due to poor service sector productivity). It is one of the most dynamic but vulnerable parts of the North.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The area lacks sector diversity but shows the beginnings of progress.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The economy isn&rsquo;t very diverse, but some of the sectors that dominate are modern. </strong>It is middle ranking within the North for economic diversification, due to both the dominance of manufacturing (20.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and high-tech makes up a relatively large share of employment (8.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but it also has a large share of employment in low-value service activities &ndash; knowledge-intensive business services account for only 9.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment, although this is growing disproportionately, as high-tech employment falls.<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable goods account for 32.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional economy.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-6">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.6</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Lancashire: Employment in the larger sectors isn&rsquo;t growing, but knowledge-intensive business services are on the increase<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Resident qualifications are poor, but the labour market functions well by connecting with its neighbouring cities.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Lancashire&rsquo;s skills base threatens to undermine progress</strong>. Only 30.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents have degree-level qualifications, and 10&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualification at all. Residents who graduate do tend to stay in the area (80.5 per cent doing so) with a net inflow of&nbsp;4,900.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Job creation isn&rsquo;t high enough to provide jobs for all residents</strong>. There are 75.5 jobs for every 100 working-age residents, and while 87.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area, there&rsquo;s a net outflow of 12,000 commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">These linkages appear to be working well for residents.</strong> Unemployment is below the national rate, at 4.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although a higher than average share has been claiming JSA longer than six months (46.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), while the employment rate is 74.2 &ndash; higher than nationally.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Businesses don&rsquo;t tend to be very dynamic or entrepreneurial.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The business base isn&rsquo;t particularly dynamic</strong>. There is a low rate of business registration (1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but quite a high rate of three-year survival (58.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses invest in R&amp;D but not many reach high growth rates</strong>. R&amp;D investment is high among SMEs (18&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) but only 6.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reach a &pound;1 million turnover in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-4">There is historic collaboration across the area, but devolution hasn&rsquo;t yet taken off.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-25"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP benefits somewhat from its rough alignment with an upper-tier authority.</strong> There are some other shared-service arrangements involving generally two or three local authorities, but there is no combined authority or devolution deal proposed.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">This may have held back government funding to an extent</strong>. Lancashire LEP secured &pound;251 million in government funding through its growth deal (&pound;170 per resident) &ndash; higher than average and the fifth-highest among LEPs without combined authorities &ndash; but at &pound;13 per resident, spending per capita on planning and development is one of the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

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<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-5.xhtml#footnote-003-backlink" id="footnote-003">4</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-rural-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">6.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: rural areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-1">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 6.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-5">Non-urban areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.1-cumbria">6.1 Cumbria</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">The Cumbrian economy combines the rural with the industrial.<span class="CharOverride-4"><span id="footnote-005-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-005">5</a></span></span> Its large territory belies a small economy, but this economy has pockets of highly productive industrial employment in what is otherwise a sparse and rural area. It is most similar to north-eastern Scotland within the UK, and to parts of rural Spain and Scandinavia in Europe. However, it is among the less prosperous of these areas: GVA per capita is below their average,<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-004-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-004">6</a></span></span> and it ranks 13th of 17 regions that fit this typology. Cumbria&rsquo;s role is nonetheless vital: its prime sectors &ndash; nuclear and defence &ndash; are of strategic national importance, while the Lake District is a natural asset which helps to underpin the North&rsquo;s attractiveness (NIER 2016). Its economy is, however, more vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy is not diverse, and modern sectors are lacking.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It relies on public sector employment and low-productivity manufacturing.</strong> It has a relatively high specialisation index, and a high proportion of employment in the public sector (23.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and manufacturing (16.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but low employment in both high-tech (4.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable sectors account for a healthy 36.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output, but this leaves the area quite vulnerable to any trade challenges in the years ahead.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-2">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Cumbria: Employment is strong and growing in manufacturing, but it lacks diversity<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>and modern sectors are falling behind<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The labour force is relatively self-sufficient and medium skilled.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Residents tend to be medium- to low-skilled.</strong> There are relatively fewer workers with degree-level qualifications (31&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but also fewer with no qualifications at all (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent); retaining residents who have graduated is a major problem &ndash; there is a net outflow of 22,000 new graduates a year and 72.8 per cent of residents who graduate stay in the area.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is quite self-sufficient</strong> <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">and provides jobs for residents elsewhere.</strong> 95.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents in employment work in the region and there is a net inflow of 17,000 people to work, and a healthy 85.5 jobs per 100 working-age residents.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is above average.</strong> The unemployment rate is a relatively low 4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and employment is a relatively high 76.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; however, a large proportion of JSA claimants have been claiming longer than six months (57.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-20">The economy lacks entrepreneurialism, but most businesses that start survive.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Business registration is low but survival is high</strong>. The business registration rate was only 1.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but 66.6 per cent of firms survived three years (the highest figure in the UK), and self-employment is also high, at 16&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-29"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Investment in R&amp;D is very low, and few of these firms reach high turnover quickly. </strong>Cumbrian SMEs don&rsquo;t tend to invest in R&amp;D (12&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; joint lowest in the North) and their startups are unlikely to have a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years (only 2.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Devolution hasn&rsquo;t yet taken hold in Cumbria.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is no combined authority yet.</strong> Cumbria has so far failed to establish a combined authority or sign a major devolution deal with government, though being a two-tier county this is perhaps more understandable and doesn&rsquo;t necessarily imply poor governance &ndash; discussions are ongoing.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP failed to win much growth deal funding.</strong> The local enterprise partnership managed to secure only &pound;47.7 million (&pound;96 per capita) &ndash; this is the lowest level of funding received in England both in absolute and in relative terms &ndash; and little is spent on planning and development (only &pound;18 per capita).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.2-humber">6.2 Humber</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">The Humber&rsquo;s once-prosperous economy is still adapting to globalisation. The region was once a powerhouse of industries that are now in decline: whether large-scale heavy industry and production of textiles, or fishing and agriculture. The Humber is one of many regions with such a history and composition &ndash; areas like the non-urban industrial heartlands such as the German L&auml;nder of Saxony and Bavaria &ndash; but even compared to these its GVA per capita is poor. Its economy is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The Humber relies on a handful of sectors, but its economy is positioned to trade strongly.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economic base lacks diversity and the manufacturing base needs further modernisation.</strong> It has one of the North&rsquo;s less diverse economies, and while it has high manufacturing employment (16.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) only 4.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment is in high-tech, and only 9.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent is in knowledge-intensive business services &ndash; both are declining at a rate that&rsquo;s disproportionate.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for a healthy 36.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the Humber&rsquo;s GVA &ndash; but this, of course, leaves it more exposed to any turbulence ahead.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-3">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Humber: Manufacturing dominates and is growing, but few other sectors thrive<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>and modern sectors are struggling<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The Humber&rsquo;s labour market has major challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resident qualification rates are low.</strong> It has the lowest share of highly qualified residents in the North: just 27.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess degree-level qualifications, and 9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of its residents have no qualification at all; graduate retention is a low 72.8 per cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economy has fewer jobs.</strong> There are only 70 jobs for every 100 working-age residents, with 89.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents working in the area, and a net outflow of 14,000 commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">This leaves many looking for work for a long time, or giving up.</strong> Unemployment is above average (6.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and employment is below (72.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and quite a high proportion of JSA claimants have been looking for work for more than six months (47&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy could be more dynamic but startups can be successful.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Businesses don&rsquo;t tend to start or do well in this area.</strong> Self-employment is low at 11.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and the business registration rate was only 1.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, with only 53.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of businesses surviving three years after their creation.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Businesses aren&rsquo;t innovative and but quite a high proportion reach high rates of turnover.</strong> Only 12&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D (joint lowest in the North with Cumbria) but 6.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reach a turnover of &pound;1 million in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-2">Poor governance adds to the area&rsquo;s difficulties, but it is planning for the future.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">No devolution has taken place in the Humber</strong>. The geography of devolution has been hotly contested in Yorkshire and within the LEP area itself, and this has held the Humber back &ndash; this is complicated further by the fact that the LEP area includes two local authorities that are part of the Greater Lincolnshire Combined Authority (GLCA)</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">However, the LEP has attracted a reasonable amount of funding.</strong> The LEP secured &pound;114 million of funding from the government (&pound;123 per resident), broadly in line with the average of English LEPs (albeit low in the North); however, the area spends &pound;26 per capita on planning and development &ndash; the highest in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.3-york-north-yorkshire-and-east-riding">6.3 York, North Yorkshire and East Riding</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">York, North Yorkshire and East Riding (YNYER) is a rural and relatively prosperous area within the North. It is one of few northern areas that is neither urban nor industrial &ndash; it has a great deal in common with southern and eastern LEPs in the UK, and places such as Galicia, Bretagne and Friesland in the rest of the EU. York is its only city, and its population is otherwise dispersed among a number of small towns. While it is a prosperous and productive area in its own right, it has important connections with the rest of the North &ndash; and especially Leeds city-region. It is a resilient and prosperous area.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economic base is both diverse and balanced between several sectors &ndash; but lacking any particular specialism.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economic base is diverse and isn&rsquo;t dominated by any particular sector</strong>. It has a specialisation index that is second only to Cheshire and Warrington of the non-metropolitan areas, and isn&rsquo;t dominated by either public sector employment (18.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) or manufacturing (10.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent); both the knowledge-intensive business services and high-tech sectors are smaller than average (9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and 5.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent respectively) and both are shrinking in relative terms.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">This is not an area geared strongly towards trading. The area does not have a strong base in tradables (30.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and lacks either the tradable services or the manufacturing base of many post-industrial towns elsewhere.</p>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">York, North Yorkshire and East Riding: Employment is distributed among a&nbsp;number of sectors, and growth in moderns sectors is low<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A healthy labour market underpins this prosperity.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The population is highly qualified</strong>. It lacks the mass of students found elsewhere, has low graduate retention (67.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 14,000 more graduates leave than come in. However, 36.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have degree-level qualifications and only 6.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualifications.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Job density is average, but many residents commute to nearby city-regions.</strong> There are 78.1 jobs per 100 working-age residents, but a third of residents work outside the area (the highest of any northern LEP) and with 56,000 more people commuting out than commute in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">These linkages work well for residents.</strong> The unemployment rate is low (3.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), the long-term JSA claimant proportion is the lowest in the North (39.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and the employment rate is very high (79.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">New businesses survive well, but aren&rsquo;t particularly innovative or profitable.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Few businesses start but a large proportion survive. A high 17.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of workers are self-employed (among the highest rate in the country), and survival rates are high (61.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), although registration is low, at just 2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">These businesses don&rsquo;t grow fast or show much sign of innovation. Only 13&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D and only 4.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent make &pound;1&nbsp;million turnover after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance and funding let the area down.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance is a major challenge</strong>. There is no combined authority, it overlaps with two other LEPs &ndash; Leeds city-region and the Humber &ndash; and issues over Yorkshire&rsquo;s future devolution and governance remain unresolved.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area has missed out on vital funding.</strong> It only received &pound;98.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;capita in its growth deal &ndash; the second lowest in the North &ndash; but is among the highest spenders on planning and development in the North, at &pound;26 per capita.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-005-backlink" id="footnote-005">5</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-004-backlink" id="footnote-004">6</a> Median</p>
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			<p class="reference">Saya S (2016) <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">The OECD ‘resilient cities’ project Preliminary findings. </em><a href="http://www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/resilient-cities-framework.pdf"><span class="hyperlink">http://www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/resilient-cities-framework.pdf</span></a></p>
			<p class="reference">Springford <a href="https://www.cer.org.uk/personnel/simon-tilford">J, <span class="hyperlink">Tilford</span></a> S, <a href="https://www.cer.org.uk/personnel/christian-odendahl"><span class="hyperlink">Odendahl</span></a> C and McCann P (2016) <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">The economic consequences of leaving the EU: The final report of the CER commission on Brexit 2016</em>, Centre for European Reform. <a href="https://www.cer.org.uk/publications/archive/report/2016/economic-consequences-leaving-eu-final-report-cer-commission-brexit"><span class="hyperlink">https://www.cer.org.uk/publications/archive/report/2016/economic-consequences-leaving-eu-final-report-cer-commission-brexit</span></a></p>
			<p class="reference ParaOverride-3">Stiglitz J, Sen A and Fitoussi J-P (2009) <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Report of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic performance and Social Progress.</em> <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5769Beyond%20GDP%20Indicators%20to%20what%20end_rev.pdf"><span class="hyperlink">https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5769Beyond%20GDP%20Indicators%20to%20what%20end_rev.pdf</span></a></p>
		</div></div></article><article id="annex" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-title">Annex</span></h1><p class="body_para">The authors adapted and modified a typology developed by Aumayr (2007), also using the methodology of de Beer et al (2014) to adapt this to LEP and NUTS 2 areas. The following criteria were used to break European regions into 18 typologies.</p>
			<ol>
<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Metropolitan status:</strong> includes in its entirety a larger urban zone of more than 1.5 million people, or is the principal region covered by the larger urban zone (data on metro area population: Eurostat 2014).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Urban/non-urban:</strong> a region is classified as predominantly urban (PU) if it has more than 40 per cent of the population living in constituent NUTS3 regions that are classified as PU by Eurostat, and less than 33 per cent of the population living in NUTS3 regions that are classified as predominantly rural (PR) by Eurostat. A region is classified as PR if it has more than 33 per cent of the population living in NUTS3 regions that are classified as PR by Eurostat, and less than 40 per cent living in regions classified as PU by Eurostat. All others are classified as intermediate (IN), whether they have <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">both</em> more than 40 per cent living in PU and less than 33 per cent living in PR, or they have <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">neither</em>. In line with the typology developed by Aumayr (2007), there is a distinction in the typology framework between urban (PR) and non-urban (PR and IN). The NUTS3-to-NUTS2 conversion follows the methodology developed by de Beer et al (2014).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Central/peripheral:</strong> a region is classified as peripheral if it is either:<ul>
<li class="bullet_2 _idGenParaOverride-1">entirely insular, or </li>
<li class="bullet_2_last _idGenParaOverride-1">has a population density of less than 84.88 inhabitants per km<span class="CharOverride-4">2</span> (bottom third). </li>
</ul>
</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Industrial employment:</strong> a region with more than 15.32 per cent (median value) of employment in industry is classified as industrial.</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Relative sectorial productivity for industry (HIP/LIP):</strong> the index is calculated as the ratio between the share of GVA in industry and the share of employment in industry. A high industrial productivity region has a relative sectorial productivity index above 1.289 (median value).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Relative sectorial productivity for services (HSP/LSP):</strong> this index is calculated as the ratio between the share of GVA in services and the share of employment in services. A high service productivity region has relative sectorial productivity index above 0.986 (median value).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Tourist economy:</strong> regions are classified as tourist economies if they have more than 20 tourist beds per 1,000 inhabitants.</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Agrarian economy:</strong> regions are classified as agrarian if they have more than 10 per cent of their employment in agriculture.</li>
			</ol>
<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-7">There are far more categories than are necessary for the North’s 11 LEPs, but they are all listed below, with examples from among those LEPs where there is one or more.</p>
			<ol>
<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17">Metropolitan, industrial, high industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, industrial, low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, non-industrial, high services productivity (Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Sheffield city-region)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, non-industrial, low services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, industrial, high industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, industrial, low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial, high services productivity (Liverpool city-region)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial, low services productivity (Lancashire, Cheshire and Warrington, North Eastern, Tees Valley)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, agrarian</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, tourist</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial, high industrial productivity (Cumbria)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, non-industrial, high services productivity<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-006-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-8.xhtml#footnote-006">7</a></span></span>
</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, non-industrial, low services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, industrial, high industrial productivity (Humber)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, industrial low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, non-industrial, high services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last">Non-urban, central, non-industrial, low services productivity (York, North Yorkshire and East Riding).</li>
			</ol>
<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Comparator regions shown in figure 4.1</p>
			<table id="table001" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Metropolitan, non-industrial areas with relatively high services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Andalucía</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Área Metropolitana de Lisboa</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Attiki</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Campania</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Greater Manchester</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Île de France</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Közép-Magyarország</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lazio</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Leeds City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">London</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Mazowieckie</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Noord-Holland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Praha</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Région de Bruxelles-Capitale</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sheffield City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-f-row bas-row _idGenCellOverride-1">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Wien</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="subhead_2">Comparator regions shown in figure 5.1</p>
			<table id="table002" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial areas relatively high services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bratislavský kraj</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Darmstadt</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Eastern Scotland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Essex</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Flevoland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Gelderland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Hampshire and Isle of Wight</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Helsinki-Uusimaa</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Liguria</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Limburg (NL)</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Liverpool City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Vlaams-Brabant</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Surrey, East and West Sussex</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Utrecht</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial areas with relatively low services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Cheshire and Warrington</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Dorset and Somerset</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">East Wales</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Kent</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lancashire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Leipzig</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Noord-Brabant</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Nord - Pas-de-Calais</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">North Eastern</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Overijssel</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Antwerpen</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Hainaut</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Liège</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Tees Valley</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-f-row bas-row _idGenCellOverride-1">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">West Wales and The Valleys</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Comparator regions shown in figure 6.1</p>
			<table id="table003" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial areas with relatively low industrial productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Aragón</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Basilicata</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Castilla-la Mancha</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Comunidad Foral de Navarra</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Cumbria</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Dytiki Makedonia</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Etelä-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">La Rioja</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Länsi-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lietuva</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Norra Mellansverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">North Eastern Scotland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Östra Mellansverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Steiermark</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sterea Ellada</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Västsverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-urban, central, non-industrial areas with relatively low services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bretagne</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">East Anglia</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Friesland (NL)</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Galicia</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Groningen</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lüneburg</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Midtjylland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Principado de Asturias</p>
						</td>
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            <article id="summary" class="chapter current" style=""><div class="Chapter-frame"><div id="_idContainer020" class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-title">Summary</span></h1><p class="body_para">Last year’s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report was full of confident projections of northern powerhouse potential. In substantive terms, little has changed: this year the northern economy has passed the £300 billion mark, jobs growth has motored on, and northern regions topped this year’s EY Attractiveness Survey for foreign investment.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">However, dark clouds are gathering on the horizon following the events of the past six months that have engendered more than a wobble – uncertainty now pervades the northern mood. Regardless of current quarter on quarter national GDP growth, the decision to leave the EU will have a profound effect on the northern economy. Whether in terms of trade, access to skilled labour or EU funding programmes, the implications of Brexit on the North will be profound. There will be upsides of course but for the time being business is cautious and concerned.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">The political fallout from the Brexit vote has also been severe. The champions for the northern powerhouse in the national government – former chancellor George Osborne and financial secretary Jim O’Neill – have both departed the main stage. Meanwhile, devolution deals appear to have stalled, and the focus on regional rebalancing has now been subsumed into a wider initiative to develop an industrial strategy. </p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">All this, however, presents new opportunities. While Osborne’s approach was always too partial, piecemeal and parochial, Greg Clark’s ambition to create a ‘place-based industrial strategy’ led by the powerful new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has the potential to ignite a new era of economic activism around some of the North’s major economic strengths.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">Such developments are timely. Following on from IPPR North’s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Blueprint for a Great North Plan</em> in January 2016, which set out a framework for a modern industrial strategy, Transport for the North unveiled in June the results of the Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review. The review identified four ‘primary economic capabilities’ where the North has been shown to have world-class assets and a further three ‘enabling capabilities’ that will underpin this potential.</p>
			<p class="body_para">Add to this the excellent progress being made in building powerhouse capacity in relation to transport infrastructure, finance, trade and investment; the northern powerhouse strategy and northern powerhouse schools strategy published alongside the chancellor’s autumn statement; and there should be cause for cautious optimism. Instead though, wider events mean that business confidence is weak and once again, the prospects of inclusive growth in the North are looking as distant as ever.</p>
			<p class="body_para">Our <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North 2016</em> report focuses on three key issues that will build business confidence in an era of increasing uncertainty.</p>
			<p id="securing-a-united-northern-voice-at-the-brexit-negotiating-table" class="subhead_1">Securing a united northern voice at the Brexit negotiating table</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4">The North has distinct economic assets and interests that present both opportunities and threats as the UK prepares to leave the European Union. However, the fledgling and patchy development of combined authorities, metro mayors and devolution deals in the North means that the region is not well placed to formulate a coherent response to Brexit. It will therefore struggle to match the response of the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales, or of the mayor of London or other well-established lobbying groups.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-5"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 1:</strong> <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">IPPR North calls for the formation of a Northern Brexit Negotiating Committee to determine the type of Brexit that would best suit the North, to speak with one voice in the negotiations, and to build direct relationships with regions and nations within and beyond the EU in order to develop and enhance its particular trade interests.</strong></p>
			<p id="establishing-clear-principles-for-a-place-based-industrial-strategy" class="subhead_1">Establishing clear principles for a place-based industrial strategy</p>
			<p class="body_para_into_list">The government’s industrial strategy represents an opportunity not only to address the implications of Brexit but also to take a more proactive approach to many of the structural challenges facing the UK economy, not least regional rebalancing. There are numerous ‘types’ of industrial strategy with varying degrees of intervention. IPPR has set out four clear ‘objectives’ that any new approach must address including the need to develop a strong spatial dimension to enable all parts of the country to contribute to its prosperity, but IPPR North believes that industrial strategy must adopt three ‘place-based principles’. </p>
			<ul>
<li class="bullet_1">
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Regional differentiation:</em> Develop a more sophisticated understanding of what drives growth in different types of region rather than the hitherto insufficient account of growth focused on urban agglomeration.</li>
				<li class="bullet_1">
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Co-ordinated investment:</em> Drive up public investment in infrastructure, research and development and other economic assets to match private sector investment and act as a catalyst for business innovation and smart specialisation.</li>
				<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6">
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution:</em> Develop and enhance its approach to devolution both to regional and local tiers of government with a much greater emphasis on fiscal powers to enable subnational bodies to direct investment on local economic opportunities.</li>
			</ul>
<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 2: IPPR North calls upon government to adopt a place-based approach to industrial strategy with the three core principles of regional differentiation, coordinated investment and devolution as its foundation.</strong></p>
			<p id="focusing-on-local-economic-resilience-alongside-growth-and-devolution" class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">FOCUSING ON LOCAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE ALONGSIDE GROWTH AND DEVOLUTION</strong></p>
			<p class="body_para">The large majority of our <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North 2016</em> report focuses on the importance of building local economic resilience. As with industrial strategy, there is a rich literature on how local economies resist and recover from economic shocks. Building on the work of Martin and Sunley (2014), IPPR North has developed a resilience framework consisting of four factors, each with a set of key indicators, and has used these to profile each of the 11 local enterprise partnership (LEP) areas across the North of England.</p>
			<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-8">Our analysis finds that the North’s resilience is as varied as its geography, but we have been able to group the North’s LEP areas into the following categories.</p>
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<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resilient or prosperous:</strong> areas that are relatively well prepared, with a diverse economy and strong labour market</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dynamic but vulnerable:</strong> areas where there is a diverse or diversifying economic base, but have some structural flaws, especially compared to similar city-regions in the EU</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last ParaOverride-10">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dependent or vulnerable:</strong> areas that are reliant on a single industry or small group of industries, and have significant structural issues to overcome.</li>
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<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 3: IPPR North recommends conducting LEP resilience audits. The North’s LEPs, working closely with relevant local and combined authorities, should each conduct a resilience audit that sets out in detail the threats to their economy in the wake of Brexit. This audit should then be used to inform a strategic response, and a set of asks from the government that are tailored to acting on this strategy as part of a new round of devolution deals with each LEP area.</strong></p>
		</div></div></article><article id="context" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">1.</span><span class="chapter-title">Context</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="chapter_subhead">Brexit and industrial strategy</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-11">The UK economy is set for a period of significant disruption. The EU referendum result pitched the nation into economic uncertainty, with Brexit itself looming just two years from April 2017. A new government has come to power, affording a prominent role to industrial strategy and inclusive growth. Meanwhile the northern powerhouse is now under new ownership with different ministers and new mayors soon to be elected in its major cities. These are significant changes, which will have a different effect on different parts of the North. Chapter 1 explores this changing context and argues that a principled, place-based industrial strategy could build a North that is more resilient to economic turbulence.</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.1-the-uk-and-the-european-union">1.1 The UK and the European Union</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-11">The nature of Brexit is subject to a range of political influences and decisions that are as yet unknown. The referendum vote signalled that the UK will leave the EU, but the terms of departure remain uncertain: parliament and various interest groups will seek to shape the settlement to their interests. The final deal will also be subject to the increasingly volatile politics of the EU itself and within some of its major constituent nations &ndash; France and Germany especially &ndash; which multiplies this uncertainty further. As a result some of the fundamental policies that underpin the UK economy are under threat, especially: trade policy, with the EU and other countries; migration policy with EU states; and foreign direct investment from within and outside the EU.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Uncertain politics makes for an uncertain economic outlook. Up until now the impact of the Brexit vote has been mixed: the first release of GDP since the referendum indicated only a marginal slip (post-referendum quarterly growth was 0.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, compared to 0.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent before); but the value of the pound has collapsed dramatically &ndash; the effective exchange rate (weighted for trade flows) has slipped to the lowest level on record (Hunter&nbsp;et al 2016). In this uncertain time, any forecast is to be treated with caution, but some of the major organisations that analyse the British economy have downgraded their forecasts for 2017 (see IMF 2016, OECD 2016). Moreover, the background economic conditions pre-Brexit were themselves far from healthy: economic growth has been low in the UK since the recession, while structural labour market issues and inequality persist.</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-3">Earlier this year, IPPR North published a report exploring these issues from the perspective of the north of England (Dickinson and Cox 2016). The report identified eight interrelated issues where the North is likely to have specific concerns on account of its distinctive economic mix. These concerns are specific to particular economic sectors that predominate in the North and where the region has particular economic strengths, such as advanced manufacturing, energy, health innovation and the digital economy. Related to each of these economic strengths are the following concerns:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">the North has a higher proportion of international trade with the EU than many other parts of the UK</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">sector-specific skills and labour market issues</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">engagement with pan-European innovation systems and access to particular streams of research funding</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-13">particular regulations and issues around public procurement, state aid and assisted areas</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">regional and subregional economic development funds.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">The impact of the EU on UK GDP is far larger than that of other countries. For example, it is around three times that of the US (3.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and four times that of the combined &lsquo;BRIC&rsquo; emerging economies (2.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) (Springford et al 2016). This is because EU &lsquo;value chains&rsquo; have strong multiplier effects throughout the economy, with manufacturing goods and service sector trade closely interrelated. Given that the EU-UK demand multiplier value is 2.4, it is estimated that a 1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent reduction in UK exports to the EU &ndash; equivalent to 0.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of UK GDP &ndash; leads to a reduction in UK GDP of 0.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; equal to our net EU budget contribution (ibid).</p>

<p class="body_para">These figures are, however, aggregated at the UK level. Critically, dependence on EU trade is far greater in the regions outside London. Academic research shows that most UK regions outside London are anything from 50 to 100&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent more dependent upon EU trade than London, and that they have become more dependent on EU trade since 2000, while London has become less dependent (McCann 2016). As a consequence, the impact of any reduction in EU trade will be significantly greater in the north of England and the Midlands than elsewhere. Ironically, it&nbsp;is those areas that voted in favour of Brexit where both local labour income&nbsp;and local productivity is likely to be most adversely affected.</p>

<p class="body_para">It is therefore essential that the North ensures that it has the tools it needs in order to both exploit the opportunities that Brexit offers, and mitigate the risks that it will pose.</p>

<p class="body_para">The fledgling and patchy development of combined authorities, metro mayors and devolution deals in the North means that the region is not well placed to formulate a coherent response to Brexit that will match those of the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, or that of the mayor of London or other well-established lobbying groups. Furthermore, it is quite impossible for central government to deal meaningfully with the demands of over 30 upper-tier local authorities, and 11&nbsp;local enterprise partnership areas, in the North one by one.</p>

<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Recommendation 1: A Northern Brexit Negotiating Committee should be established to determine the type of Brexit that best suits the North, to speak with one voice in the negotiations, and to build direct relationships with regions and nations within and beyond the EU in order to develop and enhance its particular trade interests.</strong></p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.2-place-based-industrial-strategy-and-inclusive-growth">1.2 Place-based industrial strategy and inclusive growth</p>

<p class="body_para">In part as a response to the implications of Brexit and the underlying sense of urgency for rebalancing the economy, the new government has set out its intention to develop and implement a &lsquo;place based&rsquo; industrial strategy to drive growth &lsquo;up and down the country&rsquo; (Clarke 2016, May 2016). The formation of a new department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is poised to intervene strategically in the economy, something which hasn&rsquo;t been done so overtly for many years. There is also a powerful economy and industrial strategy cabinet committee &ndash; chaired by the prime minister &ndash; geared towards this end. This approach will bring the UK into line with similar countries, such as Germany and France, who have a long history of being more interventionist in relation to regional economic development. Articulating her view on the government&rsquo;s new industrial strategy, the prime minister recently stated that:</p>

<p class="blockquote ParaOverride-14"><span class="CharOverride-2">&lsquo;</span>We will identify the sectors of the economy&hellip; that are of strategic importance to our economy, and do everything we can to encourage, develop and support them. And we will identify the places that have the potential to contribute to economic growth and become the homes to millions of new jobs. That means inspiring an economic and cultural revival in all of our great regional cities.<span class="CharOverride-2">&rsquo;</span></p>

<p class="blockquote_ref">May 2016</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-12">IPPR has already set out four clear objectives for a new national industrial strategy (Colebrook 2016). One of these objectives is the need to develop a strong spatial dimension to facilitate a more even spread of economic activity across the country. Building on this, it is crucial that the <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">geography</em> of industry is embedded in this new industrial strategy. Doing so should bring together five strands of policy:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-15"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Sectoral strategy.</strong> This focuses on enabling specific sectors to grow, for example by investing in specific technologies, or subsidising businesses directly, often without factoring in geographical considerations.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Regional strategy.</strong> This is concerned with the geography of economic growth, and is often simplified as a desire to &lsquo;rebalance the economy&rsquo;. This tends to focus non-sector specific or &lsquo;horizontal&rsquo; interventions at the regional level &ndash; such as transport investment, skills and innovation.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Smart specialisation.</strong> There is a further concept which sits at the juncture of these strategies: &lsquo;smart specialisation&rsquo;, which aims to understand and drive innovation. This concept originates within industrial theory, but more recently has been transposed onto regional economics (McCann and Ortega-Argil&eacute;s 2011).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution.</strong> Regional structures have now been replaced by far looser local enterprise partnerships across England, and far more focused combined authorities in some major cities. The lessons from Europe indicate that regional governments are very well placed to drive industrial strategy, and McCann (2016) concludes &ndash; from a comprehensive analysis of the UK economy &ndash; that institutional change and spatial rebalancing must go hand-in-hand.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Inclusive growth.</strong> For many years policymakers have made the mistake of overprioritising GDP growth as a policy objective. There has been some surprise that GDP growth hasn&rsquo;t improved living standards for many. This in turn has led to an academic and often abstract debate about how policy should go beyond GDP, or how economic growth can be made more &lsquo;inclusive&rsquo; (Stiglitz et al 2009, RSA 2016, Lupton et al 2016). It has been clear for some time that, alongside GDP (or GVA), policymakers should prioritise employment, wages, progression and the inclusion of disadvantaged groups.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">Building on these five strands of policy, this <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report argues that any place-based industrial strategy should rest upon three principles that relate to the &lsquo;place&rsquo; element of industrial strategy.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 1: Regional differentiation.</strong> There is a need for a more sophisticated understanding of what drives growth in different types of region (OECD 2012, NEFC 2012). The role of cities is vital, but the agglomeration hypothesis is overplayed &ndash; a UK city with double the population of another comparable UK city will only be 1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent more productive &ndash; far less than in many similar countries (Ahrend et al 2015). Policy should instead draw on modern understandings of regional economics that, while accounting for the importance of cities, prioritise the wider region in both their analysis and the policy prognosis that results (McCann 2016).</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">Many smaller towns and cities make a significant contribution both individually and through their interactions with the bigger cities. Furthermore, in the North important prime capabilities &ndash; advanced manufacturing and energy sectors for example &ndash; are largely based outside cities, though they often rely on them for their supply chain and labour pool (Cox and Longlands 2016, NIER 2016). In order to account for this, place-based industrial strategy must allow for sufficient regional differentiation in terms of the sectors it chooses to prioritise, the investments it chooses to make, and the tools and powers it chooses to devolve.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 2: Coordinated investment. </strong>Building on principle 1, interactions need to happen between businesses within prime sectors; and between them and their supply chains, enabling capabilities and underpinning assets &ndash; especially the universities (McCann and Ortega-Argil&eacute;s 2011, NIER 2016)<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">. </strong>Infrastructure &ndash; including transport, broadband and facilities (such as lab space) &ndash; can enable the ecosystem that businesses need to develop organically; R&amp;D investment generates overspills within places; and transport infrastructure can broaden the labour force that a diverse business cluster has access to. There needs to be a significant increase in public investment in infrastructure, research and development and other economic assets to match private sector investment and act as a catalyst for business innovation and smart specialisation. Such investment needs to be coordinated both in terms of a sectoral and geographical approach but also between public and private partners.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-7"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 3: Devolution. </strong>In order to achieve principles 1 and 2 most effectively, central government needs to devolve further powers and collaborate with regional and local government. Regional government in Europe has proven highly capable of implementing industrial strategy. In the UK &ndash; especially the North &ndash; local government is both well informed about local economic capabilities, and in many areas is developing the institutions to take on a much greater level of responsibility in this regard. To date, however, devolution deals have been too partial and piecemeal and there needs to be a more radical consideration of the potential for greater fiscal devolution and powers held at a more strategic &lsquo;mezzanine&rsquo; tier &ndash; such as the North.</p>

<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 2: IPPR North calls upon government to adopt a place-based approach to industrial strategy with the three core principles of regional differentiation, coordinated investment and devolution as its foundation.</strong></p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.3-north-first-northern-potential-as-an-exemplar-for-industrial-strategy-and-inclusive-growth">1.3 North first: northern potential as an exemplar for industrial strategy and inclusive growth</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The North could be an exemplar region for place-based industrial strategy and inclusive growth. There are significant foundations on which to build, and demonstrable benefit from taking such an approach.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There are a number of assets that &ndash; with the right investment &ndash; could enable the North to thrive.</strong> The northern powerhouse agenda may lack definition, but it does speak to the North&rsquo;s economic potential: it is home to 15 million people; it contributes &pound;304 billion to UK economic growth; and it ties together 5 major cities, 8 major ports and 29 universities (Cox and Raikes 2015).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-16"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There are institutions taking form which could take it forward</strong><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">.</strong> The northern powerhouse has started to take shape: Transport for the North is soon to gain statutory status, and in May 2017 new metro mayors will be elected across a wide swathe of the North.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The prime and enabling capabilities of the North are well recognised, and understood by local stakeholders.</strong> Crucially, the North has already set out the prime capabilities that such an industrial strategy can harness, and the enabling capabilities that can support these. Transport for the North recently undertook the Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review (NIER), in which it analysed the concentration of sectors and listed the assets within the North. From this, the NIER set out the North&rsquo;s prime capabilities: advanced manufacturing, health innovation, energy and digital; and its enabling capabilities: financial and professional services, higher education and logistics (NIER 2016).</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">The North is also well placed to deliver <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">inclusive</em> economic growth. The combined authorities &ndash; with or without mayors &ndash; are able to bring together public service reform and economic policy within a place in a new and crucial way: for example by commissioning the work and health programme in a way which aligns with demand-side activity (Raikes and Davies 2016). Some northern cities are already setting out their strategies for inclusive growth, and even aligning this with industrial strategy objectives: Greater Manchester is already seeking to use its skills powers to prioritise sectors which offer entry-level jobs to be taken up by those who are the focus of public service reform (GMCA et al 2014).</p>

<p class="body_para">However, any broad, place-based industrial strategy &ndash; let alone one focused on inclusive growth &ndash; will only succeed if it is founded upon strong and resilient local economies. The focus of this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report will therefore now shift to the importance of local economic resilience, followed by a series of resilience profiles assessing the economic strengths and weaknesses of the North&rsquo;s 11 local enterprise partnership areas.</p>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 1.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Elements of an industrial strategy for the North</p>

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</div></article><article id="understanding-economic-38-160-resilience" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">2.</span><span class="chapter-title">Understanding economic&#160;resilience</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">The ability to adapt to any economic turbulence ahead will vary from area to area. Chapter 2 introduces the concept of economic resilience: it first sets out how this concept can be defined, before looking at different ways in which it can be measured, and then setting out our methodology for this project.</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.1-defining-resilience">2.1 Defining resilience</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">Defining resilience is a complex but important task. For obvious reasons, the subject has received much attention &ndash; the financial crash clearly had an impact on policymakers and academics. However, for perhaps less obvious reasons, the field has been of increasing prominence since the turn of the century &ndash; driven largely by the long-term decline of industry in developed countries (Christopherson et al 2010).</p>

<p class="body_para">For many, the concept remains somewhat &lsquo;fuzzy&rsquo; (ibid, Pendall et al 2009). Many definitions require some kind of &lsquo;normal&rsquo; to be defined, so that an economy&rsquo;s ability to remain in this state can be derived: resisting or absorbing a shock in employment or output; recovering quickly to such a shock; or maintaining core system performance (Martin et al 2013).</p>

<p class="body_para">Resilience clearly isn&rsquo;t simply a matter of how sharply an area or industry contracts or recovers. While useful context, these definitions fail to account for fundamental transformation as a response either to shock, or to long-term structural changes (Christopherson et al 2010). In response some have expanded the scope of resilience to be more conceptual and so incorporate diversity, modularity, social capital, innovation, overlap, tight feedback loops and ecosystem services; pushed a little further, resilience is seen by some as &lsquo;dynamic adaptation&rsquo; (Lewis and Conaty 2012, Greenham et al 2013).</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.2-measuring-resilience">2.2 Measuring resilience</p>

<p class="body_para">The focus of this report is on how well prepared areas are for the years of uncertainty ahead. While the concept of resilience is itself the subject of debate, there is some consensus that a number of factors will help an economy to survive and adapt to changes. Martin and Sunley (2014) set out a framework that we will develop, illustrated in figure 2.1.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Others have given more tangible form to this framework, and some have sought to aggregate a number of measures into a single index. The OECD makes use of a number of social and environmental indicators to inform its work on city resilience &ndash; in the economy domain, it is diversity, dynamism, innovation and employment and skills which are the priority (Saya 2016). Local and regional governments in the UK have used a range of common indicators as proxies for these: Advantage West Midlands used workforce skills, employment rates and business turnover (AWM 2010); Ekosgen used a similar set of indicators when they analysed the resilience of Sheffield city-region (Ekosgen 2009). Some organisations have sought to incorporate environmental and social considerations into their measurements (Greenham et al 2013) &ndash; however, given the focus of this report on post-Brexit economic resilience, we do not take these into our own analysis.</p>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 2.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Resilience can be determined by the interaction of four economic&nbsp;subsystems<br />
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Determinants of regional economic resilience</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Martin and Sunley 2014</p>
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<p class="subhead_1" id="2.3-our-methodology">2.3 Our methodology</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">We draw on the above research, but adapt it to the current situation: that is, with the North and the nation on the brink of Brexit. In the case studies in chapters 4&ndash;6 we have attempted to summarise each of the 11 northern LEP areas from a resilience perspective, using both data analysis and qualitative judgement where appropriate. The picture will inevitably be incomplete, and not all of the above determinants of resilience can be measured: some factors are determined nationally, and are therefore irrelevant for local comparisons (national economic policies for example); others are not measured locally (such as debt structure and financial strength) even though it would be helpful if they were. Some indicators require proxies (we used business registration rate as a measure of entrepreneurship); and others are qualitative judgements made on the best evidence available (those related to governance especially). It is important to note that some of these indicators could be interpreted differently: for example, having a large output from tradables is often seen as strength, but here we regard it with more caution because trade is under threat from Brexit.</p>

<p class="body_para">Bearing in mind these different considerations we have developed the following 20 indicators that relate to economic resilience:</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Sector diversity &ndash; measured in absolute terms by the Herfindahl-Hirschman index</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">knowledge-intensive business services employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">high-tech employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">output from tradable goods</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">location quotients</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">shift share analysis.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Qualification level of working-age residents</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">local graduate retention</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">commuting rates</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">job density</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">unemployment rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">employment rate.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Business registration rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">business three-year survival rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">self-employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">high-growth SMEs</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">SME investment in R&amp;D.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Assessment of progress on devolution</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">local spending on planning and development per capita</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">growth deal per capita.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Using these indicators we have built up a &lsquo;resilience profile&rsquo; for each of the 11 local enterprise partnership areas across the North. However, each of these profiles begins by setting the LEP in an international context. Even without Brexit it would be vital to compare northern subregions with those in Europe &ndash; it is often these areas with which they are competing for investment and trade, rather than just neighbouring regions in the UK. We have done this by taking a typology developed by Aumayr (2007), and adapting this to northern LEP geographies using a methodology developed by de&nbsp;Beer&nbsp;et al (2014).</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-7">The detail of this typology is included in the annex of this report but in broad terms the 11 northern LEPs are categorised by:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">their metropolitan status</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">whether they are rural or urban</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">whether they are central or peripheral</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the proportion of employment in industry</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the relative productivity of their industry</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the relative productivity of their services sector</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the prevalence of tourism</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">the prevalence of agrarian activities.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Based on this, the North&rsquo;s subregions fall into three broad categories.</p>

<ol>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Metropolitan areas: </strong><strong class="medium CharOverride-3">this includes Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, and Sheffield city-region, which compare with a range of European cities, including major capitals such as Brussels Capital Region, and Ile de France</strong></li>
	<li class="number_list_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Urban areas: </strong><strong class="medium CharOverride-3">this includes Cheshire and Warrington, Tees Valley, Liverpool city-region and North Eastern and Lancashire &ndash; some of which are conventionally regarded as quite rural, but have an economy concentrated in their small cities, and are significantly less rural than many European areas. These compare to areas such as Nord Pas de Calais and Darmstadt.</strong></li>
	<li class="number_list_1_last ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Rural areas</strong>: this includes Cumbria, York, North Yorkshire and East Riding, and the Humber. These compare to areas like Basilicata, La Rioja and Munster.</li>
</ol>
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</div></article><article id="analysis" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">3.</span><span class="chapter-title">Analysis</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="chapter_subhead ParaOverride-19">local economic resilience across the north of England</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="3.1-findings">3.1 Findings</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-2">The North&rsquo;s resilience is as varied as its geography. The indicators are summarised in figures 3.1 to 3.4, and taken collectively present a picture &ndash; albeit partial &ndash; of the relative resilience of northern LEPs. However, measuring resilience is not an exact science &ndash; nor is it purely a quantitative task, requiring qualitative assessment and judgement. Based on this analysis we grouped the North&rsquo;s LEPs into the following three categories.</p>

<ol>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resilient or prosperous:</strong> areas that are relatively well prepared, with a diverse economy and strong labour market &ndash; Cheshire and Warrington, and York North Yorkshire and East Riding fall into this category. These will require an approach that boosts innovation in their thriving sectors to world-class status, and transport connectivity that enables neighbouring regions to benefit from their&nbsp;growth.</li>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dynamic but vulnerable:</strong> Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Lancashire, North Eastern and Liverpool city-region have a diverse or diversifying economic base, but have some structural flaws, especially compared to similar city-regions in the EU &ndash; primarily in their labour market, but also in their connectivity with one another. These will require an approach that accelerates this transformation by connecting these major cities with one another so that innovation spillovers are maximised and further focus on education and skills.</li>
	<li class="number_list_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dependent or vulnerable:</strong> the Humber, Tees Valley, Sheffield city-region and Cumbria are all areas that have not yet diversified, are reliant on a single industry or small group of industries, and still have significant structural issues to overcome. These urgently need support to avoid the risk of yet further decline, and in many cases there is mutual benefit in connecting these areas to their more prosperous neighbours.</li>
</ol>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Business base</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Labour force</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Entrepreneurialism</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 3.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Governance</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-21">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="subhead_1" id="3.2-priorities">3.2 Priorities</p>

<p class="body_para">The government&rsquo;s place-based industrial strategy must build resilient local economies across the North. It cannot just subsidise large employers already here to persuade them to stay, it must aim to diversify the North&rsquo;s economy, and resolve some of the fundamental challenges that persist &ndash; in&nbsp;the supply of skills, transport connectivity, and the lack of innovation.</p>

<p class="body_para">In order to take forward this approach, the third main recommendation for this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report is driven from the bottom-up.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Recommendation 3: The North&rsquo;s LEPs, working closely with relevant local and combined authorities, should each conduct a resilience audit that sets out in detail the threats to their economy in the wake of Brexit. This audit should then be used to inform a strategic response, and a set of asks from the government that are tailored to acting on this strategy as part of a new round of devolution deals with each LEP area that mesh LEP priorities with those of the industrial strategy being developed by central government.</strong></p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">The remainder of this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report assesses each of the LEPs in turn. First we turn to the core cities of the North: Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Liverpool city-region, the North East and Sheffield. We then analyse the (often polycentric) urban areas that are often adjacent to these core cities: Cheshire and Warrington, Tees Valley and Lancashire. Finally, we assess the more rural and peripheral areas of the North: Cumbria, the Humber and York, and North Yorkshire and East Riding.</p>
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</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-metropolitan-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">4.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: metropolitan areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-1">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 4.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Metropolitan, non-industrial areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
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<p class="subhead_1" id="4.1-greater-manchester">4.1 Greater Manchester</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Greater Manchester is the second largest metropolitan hub in the North. Its scale is significant: it has a population of 2.8 million a GVA of &pound;56&nbsp;billion (larger than that of Wales).<span class="CharOverride-4"><span id="footnote-002-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-002">1</a></span></span> The city&rsquo;s horizons have always reached beyond UK borders, but compared to similar regions in Europe it is only middle ranking: it has a population the size of Lisbon&rsquo;s; an economy the size of Prague&rsquo;s; productivity levels that compare to Berlin; and a rate of unemployment similar to Rotterdam and Warsaw. It is highly dynamic and able to adapt, but its labour force leaves it more vulnerable than it should be to any future difficulties.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Greater Manchester has a diverse and modern economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Diversity is high, with thriving modern and trading sectors.</strong> It has the second-lowest specialisation index of northern LEPs, its high-tech sector is the largest of the core cities (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and knowledge-intensive business services employment is second highest only to Cheshire and Warrington in the North (at 14.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) &ndash; both these sectors are growing faster than wider trends; however, tradable sectors account for a low 29.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of output.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-8">Greater Manchester: The economy is diverse with disproportionate growth in both knowledge-intensive business services and high-tech manufacturing<br />
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-23">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
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<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There is a large pool of talent to draw on, but low resident qualifications mean many are excluded.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-15"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a large labour pool, but qualification rates are low.</strong> Retention of residents who have graduated is high (81.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 15,000 more graduates move in each year than leave &ndash; and yet only a third (33.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) of residents have degree-level qualifications,<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-001-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-001">2</a></span></span> and 10.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Job creation fails to keep up with population growth</strong>. Despite its vibrant economic base, there are only 71.5 jobs for every 100 working-age residents; although 22,000 more people commute into the city than leave for work and 89.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work there.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-24"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is low</strong>. The unemployment rate is quite high, at 6.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although the proportion of JSA claimants claiming for more than six months is slightly below average, at 45&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; and the employment rate is below average, at 70.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy is dynamic and innovative.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is high rate of businesses churning in the economy</strong>. Business registration was a healthy 3.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent a year, but only 57.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent survived three years, and self-employment is below average (13&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to reach high growth rates</strong>. 6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups managed to achieve a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years (among the highest of English LEP areas), although SME investment in R&amp;D was relatively low (15&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region is an exemplar for devolution and governance in the UK.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">City-region institutions are strong, well established and cohesive.</strong> Decades of city-wide collaboration crystallised with the country&rsquo;s first combined authority in 2011 and a mayor will be elected in 2017.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The results of good governance are being recognised.</strong> Not only did the city-region secure &pound;533 million (&pound;193 per capita), but it is exercising some control over &pound;6 billion of health and social care spending; planning and development spending is also high, at &pound;24&nbsp;per capita.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="4.2-leeds-city-region">4.2 Leeds city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Leeds city-region sits at the core of the northern powerhouse. With 3&nbsp;million people and &pound;63 billion economic output, it is the largest LEP area outside London. Like many UK cities, it deindustrialised long ago, however, unlike these cities it suffers from low productivity &ndash; behind Greater Manchester and Sheffield who share its service-oriented economy, and also behind Birmingham and Glasgow city-regions. Among similar city-regions it has more in common with Athens than with other mid-ranking continental cities such as Prague or Vienna. It is one of the dynamic but vulnerable parts of the North: with a diverse economy, but a labour force that needs to adapt.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has a diverse and modern metropolitan economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economy is diverse and service-oriented.</strong> It has the most diverse economy in the North, with a relatively low share of public sector employment (18.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), it has a larger manufacturing base than other northern cities (10.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and high-tech employment is 5.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (although falling disproportionately), and knowledge intensive business services employment is high compared to northern areas &ndash; below the national concentration (13.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but catching up. Despite a small advanced manufacturing sector, the area has an above average share of GVA from tradables (32&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), due to its service sector.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Leeds city-region: There are a range of specialisms in this diverse economy, and modern sectors are growing<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
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<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Leeds city-region has a more self-contained labour market.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-25"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Despite its strong higher education sector, the skills of the overall workforce are low.</strong> Residents who graduate tend not to stay in Leeds as much as in other major cities (74.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and only a relatively small number of students flow in (1,300); only 31.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess degree-level qualifications and 9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The labour market is self-contained.</strong> Job density is about average at 75.7 jobs for every 100 residents, but the LEP covers a large area containing many towns and cities &ndash; as a result 93.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work within the LEP area, and only marginally more (860) come in than leave.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">However, economic inclusion is average.</strong> Unemployment is slightly higher than average (5.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the employment rate is slightly poorer than nationally (72.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the long-term JSA claimant proportion is slightly lower (44.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">New businesses tend to be healthy and dynamic.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The area appears to be quite entrepreneurial</strong>. Self-employment is 13.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, business registration is 3.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and 60.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of businesses survive their first three years (these compare very well with other northern city-regions).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to be quite innovative and many reach high turnover rates</strong>. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invest in R&amp;D, while 6.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent reach &pound;1 million turnover in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-4">Leeds city-region&rsquo;s LEP has been successful in drawing down money from central government, but its lack of governance reform has held back devolution.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-13"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Progress on devolution has been held back over geography and forms of governance.</strong> There is a combined authority, but unlike Greater Manchester its geography doesn&rsquo;t match with that of the LEP or the historic West Yorkshire county. There has been a devolution deal but devolution has so far been curtailed as local stakeholders fail to agree on whether to have a mayor or the geography over which they might exercise new powers.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-26"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">But this hasn&rsquo;t held it back from receiving government funding.</strong> The LEP has been highly successful in attracting funds from central government, securing &pound;628 million (&pound;207&nbsp;per resident) &ndash; the most generous of any growth deal &ndash; but it is middle ranking for spending on planning and development per capita, at &pound;18 per resident.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="4.3-sheffield-city-region">4.3 Sheffield city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">Sheffield city-region&rsquo;s economy falls between two stools: it has both the service-intensive economy of the major metropolitan areas and the high-tech economy of the urban areas but it fails to specialise in either of these. It has higher GVA per capita than neighbouring Leeds CR, but in other respects has more in common with the urban areas that are still struggling to transition from post-industrial to modern, prosperous regions. Its economy is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The business base lacks diversity and is still in transition from its industrial past.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is lacking in diversity or modern sectors</strong>. Sector diversity is lower than the other major cities and it retains a relatively large proportion of employment in manufacturing, which makes up 11.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment, and although only 5.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment is in high-tech this is increasing ahead of wider trends; knowledge-intensive business services employment is relatively low (9.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and in relative decline, while the public sector makes up a high 21.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent. The city does not export very much: at 29.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent its tradable share of output is the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Sheffield city-region: Employment isn&rsquo;t diverse, nor is it diversifying quickly<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city has major labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Qualification levels are poor &ndash; though not as bad as the North&rsquo;s other metropolitan areas.</strong> Only a small proportion are degree-level qualified (28.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), while 9.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent hold no qualifications at all; graduate retention is poor (70.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 15,000 more graduates leave each year than move in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Part of the problem is lack of jobs.</strong> There are only 69.6 jobs per 100 residents, only 86.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the city-region (second lowest of the North&rsquo;s major cities), and 14,800 more people leave than come into the region to work.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">And too many don&rsquo;t work at all.</strong> Unemployment remains relatively high at 6.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, as does the proportion of long-term JSA claimants (47.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and the employment rate is low at 71.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Entrepreneurialism is about average, but a fair number of firms thrive.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high rate of startups but a relatively high number fail</strong>. New business registration is a relatively high 3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but the three-year survival rate is a relatively low 59.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; the area has below average self-employment (12.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-5">Innovation appears quite high and a good proportion do very well</strong><span class="CharOverride-5">. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of SMEs invested in R&amp;D, and a relatively high proportion of startups reached &pound;1 million turnover in these three years &ndash; 7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (higher than Greater Manchester or Leeds city-region). </span></li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is well established though must keep pace with other northern cities.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance is relatively strong</strong>. The area has established a combined authority, and will elect a mayor in 2017, but there are challenges concerning its overlap with the D2N2 local enterprise partnership<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-000-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-000">3</a></span></span> &ndash; stretching across into the East Midlands region &ndash; and its devolution deal is less expansive than elsewhere.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">A growth deal will help the city-region invest.</strong> The LEP was able to secure &pound;177 per capita in its recent growth deal &ndash; the third-highest funding per capita in the North &ndash; and at &pound;18 per capita, it is middle ranking in its spend on planning and development.</li>
</ul>

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<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-002-backlink" id="footnote-002">1</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-001-backlink" id="footnote-001">2</a> All references to &lsquo;degree-level qualifications&rsquo; mean NVQ level 4 or above.</p>
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<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-000-backlink" id="footnote-000">3</a> Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire LEP.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-urban-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">5.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: urban areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 5.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-4">Urban non-industrial areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1" id="5.1-liverpool-city-region">5.1 Liverpool city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Liverpool city-region has a deindustrialised economy, with low levels of employment in industrial activities, and productivity rate in the service sector that&rsquo;s relatively high.<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-003-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-5.xhtml#footnote-003">4</a></span></span> For this reason it reflects a cluster of highly tertiarised urban centres including four Dutch regions as well as some prosperous shires in the south of England but, despite some economic and geographical similarities, Liverpool city-region lacks their prosperity &ndash; in GVA per capita terms it ranks last of these &ndash; and within the North it sits alongside areas such as Tees Valley and the North East.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Niche specialisms have broken through in an otherwise lagging economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The city-region lacks sector diversity and depends on the public sector.</strong> It has the lowest diversity of the northern cities, with high public sector employment (22.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and low employment in manufacturing (7.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and high-tech (5.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and knowledge-intensive business services (10.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). Compared to wider trends, high-tech employment is falling but, encouragingly, knowledge-intensive business services employment is rising at a faster rate.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for 29.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional production &ndash; below UK and Northern average, reflecting both its deindustrialisation and a service sector that is on the rise.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-2">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Liverpool city-region: There is little specialism and few sectors are high growth, although there are signs of increasing modernisation<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has significant labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Despite strong universities, resident qualification levels are poor</strong>. Retention of resident graduates is very high (83.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the city fails to attract enough from elsewhere, meaning 6,700 more leave than come in; only 29.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents hold the equivalent of a degree and 11.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents have no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There simply aren&rsquo;t enough jobs to provide work for residents or attract people from elsewhere</strong>. Despite being a city, there are only 65.6 jobs for every 100 residents &ndash; the lowest job density in the North &ndash; and only 84&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area, with 100,000 residents leaving the area to work, and only 69,000 commuting in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">A large proportion of residents are excluded from the labour market.</strong> Unemployment is high, at 6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but long-term unemployment is a high 52.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and the employment rate is the lowest in the North, at 67.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There is no lack of entrepreneurial spirit, but few businesses survive or grow quickly.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high rate of business registration but a significant proportion fail.</strong> The business startup rate is a healthy 3.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (as high as 11&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent in 2015), but self-employment is low (11.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the three-year survival rate was 58.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; lower than most other northern city-regions.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to be highly innovative, but in general don&rsquo;t reach high rates of turnover</strong>. SME R&amp;D activity was the highest in the North (19&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but only 6.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups achieved a turnover of &pound;1 million after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is stronger than in many areas, and the area has been quite successful at winning funds from the government.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution is well under way.</strong> The city-region has a cohesive policy geography: the LEP and combined authority are well aligned with historic Merseyside boundaries; its devolution deal secured a range of powers; and a mayor will be elected in 2017.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Funding has been won &ndash; but not as much as in other northern cities</strong>. Liverpool city-region secured &pound;264 million in government funding through its growth deal (&pound;173 per resident) &ndash; in absolute and relative terms this is well above the LEP average but below Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield city-region &ndash; and at &pound;13 per capita, spending on planning and development is the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.2-north-eastern">5.2 North Eastern</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">The North Eastern LEP area has undergone major changes to its business base but continues to lag behind other parts of the north on a range of economic indicators &ndash; although recent trends are more encouraging. The region has much in common with &lsquo;post-industrial success stories&rsquo; &ndash; predominantly in the UK (Lancashire, Cheshire and Warrington, and Tees Valley in the North) and in the Benelux region. These tend to have an industrial sector that is highly productive relative to the rest of the economy, but is relatively low in employment. Compared to these areas, though, the North Eastern LEP area performs below average in terms of GDP per capita. It is a dynamic but vulnerable area that has historically suffered because of lower skills in its labour force.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Low sector diversity risks hindering prosperity.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area&rsquo;s economy isn&rsquo;t particularly diverse and growth is relatively slow in modern sectors. </strong>It is less diverse than LEP areas which include a core city, with a relatively high proportion of employment in the public sector (21.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and it has a high proportion of manufacturing (11.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and high-tech (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). However, its knowledge-intensive business services are underrepresented (10.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and increasing in employment far slower than nationally.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for 31.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output &ndash; broadly in line with UK figures.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-3">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">North Eastern: Diversity is low and modern sectors are falling behind<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has significant labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Residents&rsquo; qualification levels are low</strong>. A high proportion of residents who graduate stay in the city (79.9 per cent) than leave each year; however, the proportion of degree-level qualified residents is 30.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, while 10.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent hold no qualifications at all. However, these figures relate to the whole of the North East population, and the region&rsquo;s younger residents are relatively well qualified: qualification rates in Newcastle compare very favourably to other core cities, and&nbsp;there is a particularly high rate of vocational qualification in the LEP area.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">There aren&rsquo;t enough jobs to go round</strong>. Job density is low (69.2 per 100 residents), and while a high proportion of residents work in the area (94.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent): more than 49,000 residents commute outward &ndash;compared to 34,000 inward commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-29"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is still has some distance to travel. </strong>Despite impressive jobs growth in recent years the employment rate is low (69.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and there are high rates of unemployment (7.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), although the long-term JSA claimant proportion is about average (45.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-11">Business could be more dynamic, but a large number of startups are very successful.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Entrepreneurship is below average.</strong> Self-employment was among the lowest in the North (10.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and business registration and survival were just below average (2.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and 59&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent respectively.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Innovation is low but growth rates are high.</strong> SME investment in R&amp;D was 16&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but 7.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reached &pound;1 million turnover in three years &ndash; the highest rate in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Despite previous successes, governance is running into difficulties.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution showed initial progress but has recently encountered setbacks.</strong> The North East Combined Authority (NECA) aligned with the LEP and was set for a mayor &ndash; however, after internal differences devolution is now on hold and there are plans afoot for three of these local authorities to go it alone &ndash; Newcastle, Northumberland and North Tyneside.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">Its ability to spend on the local economy is more limited than in other northern cities. <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP has been relatively successful in securing funding from government. It secured the fifth-largest growth deal funding in the country (&pound;330 million), but at &pound;169 per resident this amounts to less than other major northern cities; spend on planning and development is low, at &pound;15 per capita.</strong></li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.3-cheshire-and-warrington">5.3 Cheshire and Warrington</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Cheshire and Warrington is the most productive economy in the North and compares well with similar regions in Europe. Its GVA per capita is far higher than most similar areas, and of these it comes third to Noord-Brabant and Antwerp in the whole EU. It is a polycentric economy, revolving around a number of thriving towns and the city of Chester. Its location &ndash; between Greater Manchester (with its airport) and Liverpool city-region (with its port), and on the border with Wales &ndash; means it is strategically placed to engage in the international value chain. It is a resilient and prosperous area.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A diverse business base underpins its economic resilience.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high degree of diversity and dynamism</strong>. It has the third-lowest specialisation index in the North, a large share of employment in high-tech (9.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; but in relative decline), knowledge-intensive business services (15.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; and rising ahead of broader trends) and low employment in the public sector (14.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and manufacturing (8.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable goods account for 41.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output &ndash; the highest figure in the North and second highest in England but could leave it vulnerable to turbulence ahead.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-4">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Cheshire and Warrington: Employment is diverse and growing strongly, with specialisms across several modern sectors<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A skilled labour force lies behind these cutting-edge industries and knowledge-intensive businesses.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Residents are highly qualified, but many new graduates tend to leave.</strong> 39.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent are degree-level qualified, but there is an annual net flow of graduates out of the area of 12,000.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Its labour market is an excellent provider of jobs.</strong> It has the highest job density in the North (85.6 jobs for every 100 working-age residents) and while a low proportion of residents work within the area (74.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) it provides employment for almost as many people from outside the area as Greater Manchester does (138,000).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is high.</strong> Unemployment is a low 3.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, relatively few JSA claimants have been claiming long-term (41.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the employment rate is a high 75.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Its economy is dynamic &ndash; especially for a non-metropolitan area.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Startup and survival rates are higher than similar areas.</strong> Self-employment is quite high (15.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and it has a healthy business registration rate of 3.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent a year and businesses tend to survive longer than in similar areas &ndash; 63.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of new businesses survive three years.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses do tend to be innovative, but don&rsquo;t tend to reach high growth rates &ndash; in line with similar areas</strong>. A high proportion of SMEs invested in R&amp;D (18&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but only 6.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups had a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is lagging behind other parts of the North, although the region has been successful in attracting growth deal funding.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance isn&rsquo;t as advanced as other areas.</strong> Unlike other parts of the North, there is no combined authority or potential for a mayor&ndash; largely as a result of the area sitting between two cities but not being one.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-31"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area has been successful in attracting growth deal funding</strong>. In the latest growth deal, the area secured &pound;172 per resident &ndash; the fourth-highest figure among LEPs without extensive devolved powers &ndash; but per capita spending on planning and development is the lowest in the North (&pound;17) and could undermine future growth potential.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.4-tees-valley">5.4 Tees Valley</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">Tees Valley is in the middle of a challenging transition. Like Cheshire and Warrington, and Lancashire, it is a post-industrial urban area, but unlike these areas it still has further distance to travel. It has lower productivity compared to its peers in the North (Cheshire and Warrington and Cumbria) and Europe(places such as Liege and Leipzig). Like these areas it has a high proportion of employment in industry; however, this industry has lower levels of productivity and is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.5</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Tees Valley: The public sector dominates and is growing disproportionately, but so are the high-tech and knowledge-intensive business services sectors<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="body_para_into_list">This sector-mix lacks diversity, although this is changing.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is the least diverse economy in the North, but high-tech is a particular strength</strong>. It has the highest specialisation index in the North, with high public sector employment (22.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and low employment in knowledge-intensive business services (11.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). However, while manufacturing employment isn&rsquo;t particularly high (9.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), a very high share of employment is in high-tech (9.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and both high-tech and knowledge-intensive business services are growing ahead of wider trends. Tradables make up one-third of the economy (32.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There are deep-seated problems in the labour market.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Qualification levels are low.</strong> Residents&rsquo; qualification levels are low, with 30.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent degree-level qualified and 10.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the working-age population having no qualifications. The relatively small number of people who graduate in the region tend to leave &ndash; there is a retention rate of 77.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and (a net outflow of 12,500).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The area fails to provide jobs for residents.</strong> There are only 66.9&nbsp;jobs per 100 working age residents, 86.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area (middle-ranking amongst northern LEPs) and 3,000 more leave to work than commute.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Many are excluded from the economy.</strong> The employment rate is a low 69&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and unemployment is a high 7.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although the proportion claiming JSA for six months is below average (43.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The business base is surprisingly dynamic.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a strong entrepreneurial economy</strong>. Self-employment is the lowest in the North (10.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the business registration rate was highest in the North &ndash; at 4.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent this was second only to London in England &ndash; and the three-year survival rate was 61&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (better than average).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">However, these don&rsquo;t tend to be high growth or innovative firms</strong>. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D, but only 5.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups make it to the &pound;1 million turnover mark.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Good governance hasn&rsquo;t yet been rewarded with funding.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Tees Valley has stronger governance than its neighbours, but is behind the North&rsquo;s major cities.</strong> The area has a combined authority, and will elect a mayor in 2017. However, its devolution deal lacks the skills and public service reform elements seen in some other deals.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">And direct funding hasn&rsquo;t been forthcoming from government.</strong> The LEP only secured &pound;156 per capita &ndash; this is less than most northern LEPs &ndash; however, spend on planning and development is quite high, at &pound;23 per resident.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.5-lancashire">5.5 Lancashire</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-8">Lancashire&rsquo;s impressive manufacturing reinvention has yet to pull the whole region out of long-term decline, but it is making progress. Its location and its connectivity are crucial assets &ndash; it is strategically positioned adjacent to both Greater Manchester and Liverpool city-regions. This has historically underpinned its manufacturing tradition, and has retained a relatively strong industrial base, but this is now a high productivity, not high employment, sector. In this, it is similar to post-industrial urban areas, found predominantly in the UK and in the Benelux region. However, compared to these, Lancashire fares worse than average for GDP per capita (due to poor service sector productivity). It is one of the most dynamic but vulnerable parts of the North.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The area lacks sector diversity but shows the beginnings of progress.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The economy isn&rsquo;t very diverse, but some of the sectors that dominate are modern. </strong>It is middle ranking within the North for economic diversification, due to both the dominance of manufacturing (20.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and high-tech makes up a relatively large share of employment (8.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but it also has a large share of employment in low-value service activities &ndash; knowledge-intensive business services account for only 9.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment, although this is growing disproportionately, as high-tech employment falls.<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable goods account for 32.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional economy.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-6">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.6</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Lancashire: Employment in the larger sectors isn&rsquo;t growing, but knowledge-intensive business services are on the increase<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Resident qualifications are poor, but the labour market functions well by connecting with its neighbouring cities.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Lancashire&rsquo;s skills base threatens to undermine progress</strong>. Only 30.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents have degree-level qualifications, and 10&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualification at all. Residents who graduate do tend to stay in the area (80.5 per cent doing so) with a net inflow of&nbsp;4,900.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Job creation isn&rsquo;t high enough to provide jobs for all residents</strong>. There are 75.5 jobs for every 100 working-age residents, and while 87.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area, there&rsquo;s a net outflow of 12,000 commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">These linkages appear to be working well for residents.</strong> Unemployment is below the national rate, at 4.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although a higher than average share has been claiming JSA longer than six months (46.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), while the employment rate is 74.2 &ndash; higher than nationally.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Businesses don&rsquo;t tend to be very dynamic or entrepreneurial.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The business base isn&rsquo;t particularly dynamic</strong>. There is a low rate of business registration (1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but quite a high rate of three-year survival (58.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses invest in R&amp;D but not many reach high growth rates</strong>. R&amp;D investment is high among SMEs (18&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) but only 6.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reach a &pound;1 million turnover in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-4">There is historic collaboration across the area, but devolution hasn&rsquo;t yet taken off.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-25"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP benefits somewhat from its rough alignment with an upper-tier authority.</strong> There are some other shared-service arrangements involving generally two or three local authorities, but there is no combined authority or devolution deal proposed.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">This may have held back government funding to an extent</strong>. Lancashire LEP secured &pound;251 million in government funding through its growth deal (&pound;170 per resident) &ndash; higher than average and the fifth-highest among LEPs without combined authorities &ndash; but at &pound;13 per resident, spending per capita on planning and development is one of the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

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<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-5.xhtml#footnote-003-backlink" id="footnote-003">4</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-rural-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">6.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: rural areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-1">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 6.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-5">Non-urban areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.1-cumbria">6.1 Cumbria</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">The Cumbrian economy combines the rural with the industrial.<span class="CharOverride-4"><span id="footnote-005-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-005">5</a></span></span> Its large territory belies a small economy, but this economy has pockets of highly productive industrial employment in what is otherwise a sparse and rural area. It is most similar to north-eastern Scotland within the UK, and to parts of rural Spain and Scandinavia in Europe. However, it is among the less prosperous of these areas: GVA per capita is below their average,<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-004-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-004">6</a></span></span> and it ranks 13th of 17 regions that fit this typology. Cumbria&rsquo;s role is nonetheless vital: its prime sectors &ndash; nuclear and defence &ndash; are of strategic national importance, while the Lake District is a natural asset which helps to underpin the North&rsquo;s attractiveness (NIER 2016). Its economy is, however, more vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy is not diverse, and modern sectors are lacking.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It relies on public sector employment and low-productivity manufacturing.</strong> It has a relatively high specialisation index, and a high proportion of employment in the public sector (23.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and manufacturing (16.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but low employment in both high-tech (4.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable sectors account for a healthy 36.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output, but this leaves the area quite vulnerable to any trade challenges in the years ahead.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-2">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Cumbria: Employment is strong and growing in manufacturing, but it lacks diversity<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>and modern sectors are falling behind<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The labour force is relatively self-sufficient and medium skilled.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Residents tend to be medium- to low-skilled.</strong> There are relatively fewer workers with degree-level qualifications (31&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but also fewer with no qualifications at all (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent); retaining residents who have graduated is a major problem &ndash; there is a net outflow of 22,000 new graduates a year and 72.8 per cent of residents who graduate stay in the area.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is quite self-sufficient</strong> <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">and provides jobs for residents elsewhere.</strong> 95.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents in employment work in the region and there is a net inflow of 17,000 people to work, and a healthy 85.5 jobs per 100 working-age residents.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is above average.</strong> The unemployment rate is a relatively low 4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and employment is a relatively high 76.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; however, a large proportion of JSA claimants have been claiming longer than six months (57.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-20">The economy lacks entrepreneurialism, but most businesses that start survive.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Business registration is low but survival is high</strong>. The business registration rate was only 1.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but 66.6 per cent of firms survived three years (the highest figure in the UK), and self-employment is also high, at 16&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-29"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Investment in R&amp;D is very low, and few of these firms reach high turnover quickly. </strong>Cumbrian SMEs don&rsquo;t tend to invest in R&amp;D (12&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; joint lowest in the North) and their startups are unlikely to have a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years (only 2.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Devolution hasn&rsquo;t yet taken hold in Cumbria.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is no combined authority yet.</strong> Cumbria has so far failed to establish a combined authority or sign a major devolution deal with government, though being a two-tier county this is perhaps more understandable and doesn&rsquo;t necessarily imply poor governance &ndash; discussions are ongoing.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP failed to win much growth deal funding.</strong> The local enterprise partnership managed to secure only &pound;47.7 million (&pound;96 per capita) &ndash; this is the lowest level of funding received in England both in absolute and in relative terms &ndash; and little is spent on planning and development (only &pound;18 per capita).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.2-humber">6.2 Humber</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">The Humber&rsquo;s once-prosperous economy is still adapting to globalisation. The region was once a powerhouse of industries that are now in decline: whether large-scale heavy industry and production of textiles, or fishing and agriculture. The Humber is one of many regions with such a history and composition &ndash; areas like the non-urban industrial heartlands such as the German L&auml;nder of Saxony and Bavaria &ndash; but even compared to these its GVA per capita is poor. Its economy is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The Humber relies on a handful of sectors, but its economy is positioned to trade strongly.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economic base lacks diversity and the manufacturing base needs further modernisation.</strong> It has one of the North&rsquo;s less diverse economies, and while it has high manufacturing employment (16.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) only 4.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment is in high-tech, and only 9.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent is in knowledge-intensive business services &ndash; both are declining at a rate that&rsquo;s disproportionate.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for a healthy 36.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the Humber&rsquo;s GVA &ndash; but this, of course, leaves it more exposed to any turbulence ahead.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-3">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Humber: Manufacturing dominates and is growing, but few other sectors thrive<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>and modern sectors are struggling<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The Humber&rsquo;s labour market has major challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resident qualification rates are low.</strong> It has the lowest share of highly qualified residents in the North: just 27.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess degree-level qualifications, and 9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of its residents have no qualification at all; graduate retention is a low 72.8 per cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economy has fewer jobs.</strong> There are only 70 jobs for every 100 working-age residents, with 89.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents working in the area, and a net outflow of 14,000 commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">This leaves many looking for work for a long time, or giving up.</strong> Unemployment is above average (6.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and employment is below (72.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and quite a high proportion of JSA claimants have been looking for work for more than six months (47&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy could be more dynamic but startups can be successful.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Businesses don&rsquo;t tend to start or do well in this area.</strong> Self-employment is low at 11.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and the business registration rate was only 1.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, with only 53.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of businesses surviving three years after their creation.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Businesses aren&rsquo;t innovative and but quite a high proportion reach high rates of turnover.</strong> Only 12&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D (joint lowest in the North with Cumbria) but 6.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reach a turnover of &pound;1 million in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-2">Poor governance adds to the area&rsquo;s difficulties, but it is planning for the future.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">No devolution has taken place in the Humber</strong>. The geography of devolution has been hotly contested in Yorkshire and within the LEP area itself, and this has held the Humber back &ndash; this is complicated further by the fact that the LEP area includes two local authorities that are part of the Greater Lincolnshire Combined Authority (GLCA)</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">However, the LEP has attracted a reasonable amount of funding.</strong> The LEP secured &pound;114 million of funding from the government (&pound;123 per resident), broadly in line with the average of English LEPs (albeit low in the North); however, the area spends &pound;26 per capita on planning and development &ndash; the highest in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.3-york-north-yorkshire-and-east-riding">6.3 York, North Yorkshire and East Riding</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">York, North Yorkshire and East Riding (YNYER) is a rural and relatively prosperous area within the North. It is one of few northern areas that is neither urban nor industrial &ndash; it has a great deal in common with southern and eastern LEPs in the UK, and places such as Galicia, Bretagne and Friesland in the rest of the EU. York is its only city, and its population is otherwise dispersed among a number of small towns. While it is a prosperous and productive area in its own right, it has important connections with the rest of the North &ndash; and especially Leeds city-region. It is a resilient and prosperous area.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economic base is both diverse and balanced between several sectors &ndash; but lacking any particular specialism.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economic base is diverse and isn&rsquo;t dominated by any particular sector</strong>. It has a specialisation index that is second only to Cheshire and Warrington of the non-metropolitan areas, and isn&rsquo;t dominated by either public sector employment (18.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) or manufacturing (10.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent); both the knowledge-intensive business services and high-tech sectors are smaller than average (9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and 5.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent respectively) and both are shrinking in relative terms.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">This is not an area geared strongly towards trading. The area does not have a strong base in tradables (30.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and lacks either the tradable services or the manufacturing base of many post-industrial towns elsewhere.</p>

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<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">York, North Yorkshire and East Riding: Employment is distributed among a&nbsp;number of sectors, and growth in moderns sectors is low<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
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<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A healthy labour market underpins this prosperity.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The population is highly qualified</strong>. It lacks the mass of students found elsewhere, has low graduate retention (67.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 14,000 more graduates leave than come in. However, 36.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have degree-level qualifications and only 6.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualifications.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Job density is average, but many residents commute to nearby city-regions.</strong> There are 78.1 jobs per 100 working-age residents, but a third of residents work outside the area (the highest of any northern LEP) and with 56,000 more people commuting out than commute in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">These linkages work well for residents.</strong> The unemployment rate is low (3.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), the long-term JSA claimant proportion is the lowest in the North (39.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and the employment rate is very high (79.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">New businesses survive well, but aren&rsquo;t particularly innovative or profitable.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Few businesses start but a large proportion survive. A high 17.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of workers are self-employed (among the highest rate in the country), and survival rates are high (61.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), although registration is low, at just 2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">These businesses don&rsquo;t grow fast or show much sign of innovation. Only 13&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D and only 4.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent make &pound;1&nbsp;million turnover after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance and funding let the area down.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance is a major challenge</strong>. There is no combined authority, it overlaps with two other LEPs &ndash; Leeds city-region and the Humber &ndash; and issues over Yorkshire&rsquo;s future devolution and governance remain unresolved.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area has missed out on vital funding.</strong> It only received &pound;98.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;capita in its growth deal &ndash; the second lowest in the North &ndash; but is among the highest spenders on planning and development in the North, at &pound;26 per capita.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-005-backlink" id="footnote-005">5</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-004-backlink" id="footnote-004">6</a> Median</p>
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		</div></div></article><article id="annex" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-title">Annex</span></h1><p class="body_para">The authors adapted and modified a typology developed by Aumayr (2007), also using the methodology of de Beer et al (2014) to adapt this to LEP and NUTS 2 areas. The following criteria were used to break European regions into 18 typologies.</p>
			<ol>
<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Metropolitan status:</strong> includes in its entirety a larger urban zone of more than 1.5 million people, or is the principal region covered by the larger urban zone (data on metro area population: Eurostat 2014).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Urban/non-urban:</strong> a region is classified as predominantly urban (PU) if it has more than 40 per cent of the population living in constituent NUTS3 regions that are classified as PU by Eurostat, and less than 33 per cent of the population living in NUTS3 regions that are classified as predominantly rural (PR) by Eurostat. A region is classified as PR if it has more than 33 per cent of the population living in NUTS3 regions that are classified as PR by Eurostat, and less than 40 per cent living in regions classified as PU by Eurostat. All others are classified as intermediate (IN), whether they have <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">both</em> more than 40 per cent living in PU and less than 33 per cent living in PR, or they have <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">neither</em>. In line with the typology developed by Aumayr (2007), there is a distinction in the typology framework between urban (PR) and non-urban (PR and IN). The NUTS3-to-NUTS2 conversion follows the methodology developed by de Beer et al (2014).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Central/peripheral:</strong> a region is classified as peripheral if it is either:<ul>
<li class="bullet_2 _idGenParaOverride-1">entirely insular, or </li>
<li class="bullet_2_last _idGenParaOverride-1">has a population density of less than 84.88 inhabitants per km<span class="CharOverride-4">2</span> (bottom third). </li>
</ul>
</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Industrial employment:</strong> a region with more than 15.32 per cent (median value) of employment in industry is classified as industrial.</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Relative sectorial productivity for industry (HIP/LIP):</strong> the index is calculated as the ratio between the share of GVA in industry and the share of employment in industry. A high industrial productivity region has a relative sectorial productivity index above 1.289 (median value).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Relative sectorial productivity for services (HSP/LSP):</strong> this index is calculated as the ratio between the share of GVA in services and the share of employment in services. A high service productivity region has relative sectorial productivity index above 0.986 (median value).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Tourist economy:</strong> regions are classified as tourist economies if they have more than 20 tourist beds per 1,000 inhabitants.</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Agrarian economy:</strong> regions are classified as agrarian if they have more than 10 per cent of their employment in agriculture.</li>
			</ol>
<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-7">There are far more categories than are necessary for the North’s 11 LEPs, but they are all listed below, with examples from among those LEPs where there is one or more.</p>
			<ol>
<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17">Metropolitan, industrial, high industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, industrial, low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, non-industrial, high services productivity (Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Sheffield city-region)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, non-industrial, low services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, industrial, high industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, industrial, low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial, high services productivity (Liverpool city-region)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial, low services productivity (Lancashire, Cheshire and Warrington, North Eastern, Tees Valley)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, agrarian</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, tourist</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial, high industrial productivity (Cumbria)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, non-industrial, high services productivity<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-006-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-8.xhtml#footnote-006">7</a></span></span>
</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, non-industrial, low services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, industrial, high industrial productivity (Humber)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, industrial low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, non-industrial, high services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last">Non-urban, central, non-industrial, low services productivity (York, North Yorkshire and East Riding).</li>
			</ol>
<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Comparator regions shown in figure 4.1</p>
			<table id="table001" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Metropolitan, non-industrial areas with relatively high services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Andalucía</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Área Metropolitana de Lisboa</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Attiki</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Campania</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Greater Manchester</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Île de France</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Közép-Magyarország</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lazio</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Leeds City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">London</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Mazowieckie</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Noord-Holland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Praha</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Région de Bruxelles-Capitale</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sheffield City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-f-row bas-row _idGenCellOverride-1">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Wien</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="subhead_2">Comparator regions shown in figure 5.1</p>
			<table id="table002" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial areas relatively high services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bratislavský kraj</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Darmstadt</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Eastern Scotland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Essex</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Flevoland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Gelderland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Hampshire and Isle of Wight</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Helsinki-Uusimaa</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Liguria</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Limburg (NL)</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Liverpool City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Vlaams-Brabant</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Surrey, East and West Sussex</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Utrecht</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial areas with relatively low services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Cheshire and Warrington</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Dorset and Somerset</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">East Wales</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Kent</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lancashire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Leipzig</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Noord-Brabant</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Nord - Pas-de-Calais</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">North Eastern</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Overijssel</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Antwerpen</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Hainaut</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Liège</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Tees Valley</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-f-row bas-row _idGenCellOverride-1">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">West Wales and The Valleys</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Comparator regions shown in figure 6.1</p>
			<table id="table003" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial areas with relatively low industrial productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Aragón</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Basilicata</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Castilla-la Mancha</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Comunidad Foral de Navarra</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Cumbria</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Dytiki Makedonia</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Etelä-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">La Rioja</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Länsi-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lietuva</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Norra Mellansverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">North Eastern Scotland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Östra Mellansverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Steiermark</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sterea Ellada</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Västsverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-urban, central, non-industrial areas with relatively low services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bretagne</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">East Anglia</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Friesland (NL)</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Galicia</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Groningen</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lüneburg</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Midtjylland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Principado de Asturias</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Brabant Wallon</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Schleswig-Holstein</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sjælland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Southern and Eastern</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">York, North Yorkshire and East Riding</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-urban, central, non-industrial areas with relatively high industrial productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Braunschweig</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Cantabria</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Észak-Magyarország</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Haute-Normandie</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Humber</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Münster</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Niederbayern</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Niederösterreich</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
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            <article id="summary" class="chapter current" style=""><div class="Chapter-frame"><div id="_idContainer020" class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-title">Summary</span></h1><p class="body_para">Last year’s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report was full of confident projections of northern powerhouse potential. In substantive terms, little has changed: this year the northern economy has passed the £300 billion mark, jobs growth has motored on, and northern regions topped this year’s EY Attractiveness Survey for foreign investment.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">However, dark clouds are gathering on the horizon following the events of the past six months that have engendered more than a wobble – uncertainty now pervades the northern mood. Regardless of current quarter on quarter national GDP growth, the decision to leave the EU will have a profound effect on the northern economy. Whether in terms of trade, access to skilled labour or EU funding programmes, the implications of Brexit on the North will be profound. There will be upsides of course but for the time being business is cautious and concerned.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">The political fallout from the Brexit vote has also been severe. The champions for the northern powerhouse in the national government – former chancellor George Osborne and financial secretary Jim O’Neill – have both departed the main stage. Meanwhile, devolution deals appear to have stalled, and the focus on regional rebalancing has now been subsumed into a wider initiative to develop an industrial strategy. </p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">All this, however, presents new opportunities. While Osborne’s approach was always too partial, piecemeal and parochial, Greg Clark’s ambition to create a ‘place-based industrial strategy’ led by the powerful new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has the potential to ignite a new era of economic activism around some of the North’s major economic strengths.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">Such developments are timely. Following on from IPPR North’s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Blueprint for a Great North Plan</em> in January 2016, which set out a framework for a modern industrial strategy, Transport for the North unveiled in June the results of the Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review. The review identified four ‘primary economic capabilities’ where the North has been shown to have world-class assets and a further three ‘enabling capabilities’ that will underpin this potential.</p>
			<p class="body_para">Add to this the excellent progress being made in building powerhouse capacity in relation to transport infrastructure, finance, trade and investment; the northern powerhouse strategy and northern powerhouse schools strategy published alongside the chancellor’s autumn statement; and there should be cause for cautious optimism. Instead though, wider events mean that business confidence is weak and once again, the prospects of inclusive growth in the North are looking as distant as ever.</p>
			<p class="body_para">Our <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North 2016</em> report focuses on three key issues that will build business confidence in an era of increasing uncertainty.</p>
			<p id="securing-a-united-northern-voice-at-the-brexit-negotiating-table" class="subhead_1">Securing a united northern voice at the Brexit negotiating table</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4">The North has distinct economic assets and interests that present both opportunities and threats as the UK prepares to leave the European Union. However, the fledgling and patchy development of combined authorities, metro mayors and devolution deals in the North means that the region is not well placed to formulate a coherent response to Brexit. It will therefore struggle to match the response of the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales, or of the mayor of London or other well-established lobbying groups.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-5"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 1:</strong> <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">IPPR North calls for the formation of a Northern Brexit Negotiating Committee to determine the type of Brexit that would best suit the North, to speak with one voice in the negotiations, and to build direct relationships with regions and nations within and beyond the EU in order to develop and enhance its particular trade interests.</strong></p>
			<p id="establishing-clear-principles-for-a-place-based-industrial-strategy" class="subhead_1">Establishing clear principles for a place-based industrial strategy</p>
			<p class="body_para_into_list">The government’s industrial strategy represents an opportunity not only to address the implications of Brexit but also to take a more proactive approach to many of the structural challenges facing the UK economy, not least regional rebalancing. There are numerous ‘types’ of industrial strategy with varying degrees of intervention. IPPR has set out four clear ‘objectives’ that any new approach must address including the need to develop a strong spatial dimension to enable all parts of the country to contribute to its prosperity, but IPPR North believes that industrial strategy must adopt three ‘place-based principles’. </p>
			<ul>
<li class="bullet_1">
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Regional differentiation:</em> Develop a more sophisticated understanding of what drives growth in different types of region rather than the hitherto insufficient account of growth focused on urban agglomeration.</li>
				<li class="bullet_1">
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Co-ordinated investment:</em> Drive up public investment in infrastructure, research and development and other economic assets to match private sector investment and act as a catalyst for business innovation and smart specialisation.</li>
				<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6">
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution:</em> Develop and enhance its approach to devolution both to regional and local tiers of government with a much greater emphasis on fiscal powers to enable subnational bodies to direct investment on local economic opportunities.</li>
			</ul>
<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 2: IPPR North calls upon government to adopt a place-based approach to industrial strategy with the three core principles of regional differentiation, coordinated investment and devolution as its foundation.</strong></p>
			<p id="focusing-on-local-economic-resilience-alongside-growth-and-devolution" class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">FOCUSING ON LOCAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE ALONGSIDE GROWTH AND DEVOLUTION</strong></p>
			<p class="body_para">The large majority of our <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North 2016</em> report focuses on the importance of building local economic resilience. As with industrial strategy, there is a rich literature on how local economies resist and recover from economic shocks. Building on the work of Martin and Sunley (2014), IPPR North has developed a resilience framework consisting of four factors, each with a set of key indicators, and has used these to profile each of the 11 local enterprise partnership (LEP) areas across the North of England.</p>
			<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-8">Our analysis finds that the North’s resilience is as varied as its geography, but we have been able to group the North’s LEP areas into the following categories.</p>
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<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-9">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resilient or prosperous:</strong> areas that are relatively well prepared, with a diverse economy and strong labour market</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dynamic but vulnerable:</strong> areas where there is a diverse or diversifying economic base, but have some structural flaws, especially compared to similar city-regions in the EU</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last ParaOverride-10">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dependent or vulnerable:</strong> areas that are reliant on a single industry or small group of industries, and have significant structural issues to overcome.</li>
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<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 3: IPPR North recommends conducting LEP resilience audits. The North’s LEPs, working closely with relevant local and combined authorities, should each conduct a resilience audit that sets out in detail the threats to their economy in the wake of Brexit. This audit should then be used to inform a strategic response, and a set of asks from the government that are tailored to acting on this strategy as part of a new round of devolution deals with each LEP area.</strong></p>
		</div></div></article><article id="context" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">1.</span><span class="chapter-title">Context</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="chapter_subhead">Brexit and industrial strategy</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-11">The UK economy is set for a period of significant disruption. The EU referendum result pitched the nation into economic uncertainty, with Brexit itself looming just two years from April 2017. A new government has come to power, affording a prominent role to industrial strategy and inclusive growth. Meanwhile the northern powerhouse is now under new ownership with different ministers and new mayors soon to be elected in its major cities. These are significant changes, which will have a different effect on different parts of the North. Chapter 1 explores this changing context and argues that a principled, place-based industrial strategy could build a North that is more resilient to economic turbulence.</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.1-the-uk-and-the-european-union">1.1 The UK and the European Union</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-11">The nature of Brexit is subject to a range of political influences and decisions that are as yet unknown. The referendum vote signalled that the UK will leave the EU, but the terms of departure remain uncertain: parliament and various interest groups will seek to shape the settlement to their interests. The final deal will also be subject to the increasingly volatile politics of the EU itself and within some of its major constituent nations &ndash; France and Germany especially &ndash; which multiplies this uncertainty further. As a result some of the fundamental policies that underpin the UK economy are under threat, especially: trade policy, with the EU and other countries; migration policy with EU states; and foreign direct investment from within and outside the EU.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Uncertain politics makes for an uncertain economic outlook. Up until now the impact of the Brexit vote has been mixed: the first release of GDP since the referendum indicated only a marginal slip (post-referendum quarterly growth was 0.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, compared to 0.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent before); but the value of the pound has collapsed dramatically &ndash; the effective exchange rate (weighted for trade flows) has slipped to the lowest level on record (Hunter&nbsp;et al 2016). In this uncertain time, any forecast is to be treated with caution, but some of the major organisations that analyse the British economy have downgraded their forecasts for 2017 (see IMF 2016, OECD 2016). Moreover, the background economic conditions pre-Brexit were themselves far from healthy: economic growth has been low in the UK since the recession, while structural labour market issues and inequality persist.</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-3">Earlier this year, IPPR North published a report exploring these issues from the perspective of the north of England (Dickinson and Cox 2016). The report identified eight interrelated issues where the North is likely to have specific concerns on account of its distinctive economic mix. These concerns are specific to particular economic sectors that predominate in the North and where the region has particular economic strengths, such as advanced manufacturing, energy, health innovation and the digital economy. Related to each of these economic strengths are the following concerns:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">the North has a higher proportion of international trade with the EU than many other parts of the UK</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">sector-specific skills and labour market issues</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">engagement with pan-European innovation systems and access to particular streams of research funding</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-13">particular regulations and issues around public procurement, state aid and assisted areas</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">regional and subregional economic development funds.</li>
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<p class="body_para">The impact of the EU on UK GDP is far larger than that of other countries. For example, it is around three times that of the US (3.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and four times that of the combined &lsquo;BRIC&rsquo; emerging economies (2.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) (Springford et al 2016). This is because EU &lsquo;value chains&rsquo; have strong multiplier effects throughout the economy, with manufacturing goods and service sector trade closely interrelated. Given that the EU-UK demand multiplier value is 2.4, it is estimated that a 1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent reduction in UK exports to the EU &ndash; equivalent to 0.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of UK GDP &ndash; leads to a reduction in UK GDP of 0.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; equal to our net EU budget contribution (ibid).</p>

<p class="body_para">These figures are, however, aggregated at the UK level. Critically, dependence on EU trade is far greater in the regions outside London. Academic research shows that most UK regions outside London are anything from 50 to 100&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent more dependent upon EU trade than London, and that they have become more dependent on EU trade since 2000, while London has become less dependent (McCann 2016). As a consequence, the impact of any reduction in EU trade will be significantly greater in the north of England and the Midlands than elsewhere. Ironically, it&nbsp;is those areas that voted in favour of Brexit where both local labour income&nbsp;and local productivity is likely to be most adversely affected.</p>

<p class="body_para">It is therefore essential that the North ensures that it has the tools it needs in order to both exploit the opportunities that Brexit offers, and mitigate the risks that it will pose.</p>

<p class="body_para">The fledgling and patchy development of combined authorities, metro mayors and devolution deals in the North means that the region is not well placed to formulate a coherent response to Brexit that will match those of the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, or that of the mayor of London or other well-established lobbying groups. Furthermore, it is quite impossible for central government to deal meaningfully with the demands of over 30 upper-tier local authorities, and 11&nbsp;local enterprise partnership areas, in the North one by one.</p>

<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Recommendation 1: A Northern Brexit Negotiating Committee should be established to determine the type of Brexit that best suits the North, to speak with one voice in the negotiations, and to build direct relationships with regions and nations within and beyond the EU in order to develop and enhance its particular trade interests.</strong></p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.2-place-based-industrial-strategy-and-inclusive-growth">1.2 Place-based industrial strategy and inclusive growth</p>

<p class="body_para">In part as a response to the implications of Brexit and the underlying sense of urgency for rebalancing the economy, the new government has set out its intention to develop and implement a &lsquo;place based&rsquo; industrial strategy to drive growth &lsquo;up and down the country&rsquo; (Clarke 2016, May 2016). The formation of a new department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is poised to intervene strategically in the economy, something which hasn&rsquo;t been done so overtly for many years. There is also a powerful economy and industrial strategy cabinet committee &ndash; chaired by the prime minister &ndash; geared towards this end. This approach will bring the UK into line with similar countries, such as Germany and France, who have a long history of being more interventionist in relation to regional economic development. Articulating her view on the government&rsquo;s new industrial strategy, the prime minister recently stated that:</p>

<p class="blockquote ParaOverride-14"><span class="CharOverride-2">&lsquo;</span>We will identify the sectors of the economy&hellip; that are of strategic importance to our economy, and do everything we can to encourage, develop and support them. And we will identify the places that have the potential to contribute to economic growth and become the homes to millions of new jobs. That means inspiring an economic and cultural revival in all of our great regional cities.<span class="CharOverride-2">&rsquo;</span></p>

<p class="blockquote_ref">May 2016</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-12">IPPR has already set out four clear objectives for a new national industrial strategy (Colebrook 2016). One of these objectives is the need to develop a strong spatial dimension to facilitate a more even spread of economic activity across the country. Building on this, it is crucial that the <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">geography</em> of industry is embedded in this new industrial strategy. Doing so should bring together five strands of policy:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-15"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Sectoral strategy.</strong> This focuses on enabling specific sectors to grow, for example by investing in specific technologies, or subsidising businesses directly, often without factoring in geographical considerations.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Regional strategy.</strong> This is concerned with the geography of economic growth, and is often simplified as a desire to &lsquo;rebalance the economy&rsquo;. This tends to focus non-sector specific or &lsquo;horizontal&rsquo; interventions at the regional level &ndash; such as transport investment, skills and innovation.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Smart specialisation.</strong> There is a further concept which sits at the juncture of these strategies: &lsquo;smart specialisation&rsquo;, which aims to understand and drive innovation. This concept originates within industrial theory, but more recently has been transposed onto regional economics (McCann and Ortega-Argil&eacute;s 2011).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution.</strong> Regional structures have now been replaced by far looser local enterprise partnerships across England, and far more focused combined authorities in some major cities. The lessons from Europe indicate that regional governments are very well placed to drive industrial strategy, and McCann (2016) concludes &ndash; from a comprehensive analysis of the UK economy &ndash; that institutional change and spatial rebalancing must go hand-in-hand.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Inclusive growth.</strong> For many years policymakers have made the mistake of overprioritising GDP growth as a policy objective. There has been some surprise that GDP growth hasn&rsquo;t improved living standards for many. This in turn has led to an academic and often abstract debate about how policy should go beyond GDP, or how economic growth can be made more &lsquo;inclusive&rsquo; (Stiglitz et al 2009, RSA 2016, Lupton et al 2016). It has been clear for some time that, alongside GDP (or GVA), policymakers should prioritise employment, wages, progression and the inclusion of disadvantaged groups.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">Building on these five strands of policy, this <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report argues that any place-based industrial strategy should rest upon three principles that relate to the &lsquo;place&rsquo; element of industrial strategy.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 1: Regional differentiation.</strong> There is a need for a more sophisticated understanding of what drives growth in different types of region (OECD 2012, NEFC 2012). The role of cities is vital, but the agglomeration hypothesis is overplayed &ndash; a UK city with double the population of another comparable UK city will only be 1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent more productive &ndash; far less than in many similar countries (Ahrend et al 2015). Policy should instead draw on modern understandings of regional economics that, while accounting for the importance of cities, prioritise the wider region in both their analysis and the policy prognosis that results (McCann 2016).</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">Many smaller towns and cities make a significant contribution both individually and through their interactions with the bigger cities. Furthermore, in the North important prime capabilities &ndash; advanced manufacturing and energy sectors for example &ndash; are largely based outside cities, though they often rely on them for their supply chain and labour pool (Cox and Longlands 2016, NIER 2016). In order to account for this, place-based industrial strategy must allow for sufficient regional differentiation in terms of the sectors it chooses to prioritise, the investments it chooses to make, and the tools and powers it chooses to devolve.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 2: Coordinated investment. </strong>Building on principle 1, interactions need to happen between businesses within prime sectors; and between them and their supply chains, enabling capabilities and underpinning assets &ndash; especially the universities (McCann and Ortega-Argil&eacute;s 2011, NIER 2016)<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">. </strong>Infrastructure &ndash; including transport, broadband and facilities (such as lab space) &ndash; can enable the ecosystem that businesses need to develop organically; R&amp;D investment generates overspills within places; and transport infrastructure can broaden the labour force that a diverse business cluster has access to. There needs to be a significant increase in public investment in infrastructure, research and development and other economic assets to match private sector investment and act as a catalyst for business innovation and smart specialisation. Such investment needs to be coordinated both in terms of a sectoral and geographical approach but also between public and private partners.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-7"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 3: Devolution. </strong>In order to achieve principles 1 and 2 most effectively, central government needs to devolve further powers and collaborate with regional and local government. Regional government in Europe has proven highly capable of implementing industrial strategy. In the UK &ndash; especially the North &ndash; local government is both well informed about local economic capabilities, and in many areas is developing the institutions to take on a much greater level of responsibility in this regard. To date, however, devolution deals have been too partial and piecemeal and there needs to be a more radical consideration of the potential for greater fiscal devolution and powers held at a more strategic &lsquo;mezzanine&rsquo; tier &ndash; such as the North.</p>

<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 2: IPPR North calls upon government to adopt a place-based approach to industrial strategy with the three core principles of regional differentiation, coordinated investment and devolution as its foundation.</strong></p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.3-north-first-northern-potential-as-an-exemplar-for-industrial-strategy-and-inclusive-growth">1.3 North first: northern potential as an exemplar for industrial strategy and inclusive growth</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The North could be an exemplar region for place-based industrial strategy and inclusive growth. There are significant foundations on which to build, and demonstrable benefit from taking such an approach.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There are a number of assets that &ndash; with the right investment &ndash; could enable the North to thrive.</strong> The northern powerhouse agenda may lack definition, but it does speak to the North&rsquo;s economic potential: it is home to 15 million people; it contributes &pound;304 billion to UK economic growth; and it ties together 5 major cities, 8 major ports and 29 universities (Cox and Raikes 2015).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-16"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There are institutions taking form which could take it forward</strong><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">.</strong> The northern powerhouse has started to take shape: Transport for the North is soon to gain statutory status, and in May 2017 new metro mayors will be elected across a wide swathe of the North.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The prime and enabling capabilities of the North are well recognised, and understood by local stakeholders.</strong> Crucially, the North has already set out the prime capabilities that such an industrial strategy can harness, and the enabling capabilities that can support these. Transport for the North recently undertook the Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review (NIER), in which it analysed the concentration of sectors and listed the assets within the North. From this, the NIER set out the North&rsquo;s prime capabilities: advanced manufacturing, health innovation, energy and digital; and its enabling capabilities: financial and professional services, higher education and logistics (NIER 2016).</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">The North is also well placed to deliver <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">inclusive</em> economic growth. The combined authorities &ndash; with or without mayors &ndash; are able to bring together public service reform and economic policy within a place in a new and crucial way: for example by commissioning the work and health programme in a way which aligns with demand-side activity (Raikes and Davies 2016). Some northern cities are already setting out their strategies for inclusive growth, and even aligning this with industrial strategy objectives: Greater Manchester is already seeking to use its skills powers to prioritise sectors which offer entry-level jobs to be taken up by those who are the focus of public service reform (GMCA et al 2014).</p>

<p class="body_para">However, any broad, place-based industrial strategy &ndash; let alone one focused on inclusive growth &ndash; will only succeed if it is founded upon strong and resilient local economies. The focus of this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report will therefore now shift to the importance of local economic resilience, followed by a series of resilience profiles assessing the economic strengths and weaknesses of the North&rsquo;s 11 local enterprise partnership areas.</p>

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<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Elements of an industrial strategy for the North</p>

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</div></article><article id="understanding-economic-38-160-resilience" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">2.</span><span class="chapter-title">Understanding economic&#160;resilience</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">The ability to adapt to any economic turbulence ahead will vary from area to area. Chapter 2 introduces the concept of economic resilience: it first sets out how this concept can be defined, before looking at different ways in which it can be measured, and then setting out our methodology for this project.</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.1-defining-resilience">2.1 Defining resilience</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">Defining resilience is a complex but important task. For obvious reasons, the subject has received much attention &ndash; the financial crash clearly had an impact on policymakers and academics. However, for perhaps less obvious reasons, the field has been of increasing prominence since the turn of the century &ndash; driven largely by the long-term decline of industry in developed countries (Christopherson et al 2010).</p>

<p class="body_para">For many, the concept remains somewhat &lsquo;fuzzy&rsquo; (ibid, Pendall et al 2009). Many definitions require some kind of &lsquo;normal&rsquo; to be defined, so that an economy&rsquo;s ability to remain in this state can be derived: resisting or absorbing a shock in employment or output; recovering quickly to such a shock; or maintaining core system performance (Martin et al 2013).</p>

<p class="body_para">Resilience clearly isn&rsquo;t simply a matter of how sharply an area or industry contracts or recovers. While useful context, these definitions fail to account for fundamental transformation as a response either to shock, or to long-term structural changes (Christopherson et al 2010). In response some have expanded the scope of resilience to be more conceptual and so incorporate diversity, modularity, social capital, innovation, overlap, tight feedback loops and ecosystem services; pushed a little further, resilience is seen by some as &lsquo;dynamic adaptation&rsquo; (Lewis and Conaty 2012, Greenham et al 2013).</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.2-measuring-resilience">2.2 Measuring resilience</p>

<p class="body_para">The focus of this report is on how well prepared areas are for the years of uncertainty ahead. While the concept of resilience is itself the subject of debate, there is some consensus that a number of factors will help an economy to survive and adapt to changes. Martin and Sunley (2014) set out a framework that we will develop, illustrated in figure 2.1.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Others have given more tangible form to this framework, and some have sought to aggregate a number of measures into a single index. The OECD makes use of a number of social and environmental indicators to inform its work on city resilience &ndash; in the economy domain, it is diversity, dynamism, innovation and employment and skills which are the priority (Saya 2016). Local and regional governments in the UK have used a range of common indicators as proxies for these: Advantage West Midlands used workforce skills, employment rates and business turnover (AWM 2010); Ekosgen used a similar set of indicators when they analysed the resilience of Sheffield city-region (Ekosgen 2009). Some organisations have sought to incorporate environmental and social considerations into their measurements (Greenham et al 2013) &ndash; however, given the focus of this report on post-Brexit economic resilience, we do not take these into our own analysis.</p>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 2.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Resilience can be determined by the interaction of four economic&nbsp;subsystems<br />
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Determinants of regional economic resilience</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Martin and Sunley 2014</p>
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<p class="subhead_1" id="2.3-our-methodology">2.3 Our methodology</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">We draw on the above research, but adapt it to the current situation: that is, with the North and the nation on the brink of Brexit. In the case studies in chapters 4&ndash;6 we have attempted to summarise each of the 11 northern LEP areas from a resilience perspective, using both data analysis and qualitative judgement where appropriate. The picture will inevitably be incomplete, and not all of the above determinants of resilience can be measured: some factors are determined nationally, and are therefore irrelevant for local comparisons (national economic policies for example); others are not measured locally (such as debt structure and financial strength) even though it would be helpful if they were. Some indicators require proxies (we used business registration rate as a measure of entrepreneurship); and others are qualitative judgements made on the best evidence available (those related to governance especially). It is important to note that some of these indicators could be interpreted differently: for example, having a large output from tradables is often seen as strength, but here we regard it with more caution because trade is under threat from Brexit.</p>

<p class="body_para">Bearing in mind these different considerations we have developed the following 20 indicators that relate to economic resilience:</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Sector diversity &ndash; measured in absolute terms by the Herfindahl-Hirschman index</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">knowledge-intensive business services employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">high-tech employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">output from tradable goods</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">location quotients</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">shift share analysis.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Qualification level of working-age residents</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">local graduate retention</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">commuting rates</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">job density</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">unemployment rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">employment rate.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Business registration rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">business three-year survival rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">self-employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">high-growth SMEs</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">SME investment in R&amp;D.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Assessment of progress on devolution</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">local spending on planning and development per capita</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">growth deal per capita.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Using these indicators we have built up a &lsquo;resilience profile&rsquo; for each of the 11 local enterprise partnership areas across the North. However, each of these profiles begins by setting the LEP in an international context. Even without Brexit it would be vital to compare northern subregions with those in Europe &ndash; it is often these areas with which they are competing for investment and trade, rather than just neighbouring regions in the UK. We have done this by taking a typology developed by Aumayr (2007), and adapting this to northern LEP geographies using a methodology developed by de&nbsp;Beer&nbsp;et al (2014).</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-7">The detail of this typology is included in the annex of this report but in broad terms the 11 northern LEPs are categorised by:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">their metropolitan status</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">whether they are rural or urban</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">whether they are central or peripheral</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the proportion of employment in industry</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the relative productivity of their industry</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the relative productivity of their services sector</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the prevalence of tourism</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">the prevalence of agrarian activities.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Based on this, the North&rsquo;s subregions fall into three broad categories.</p>

<ol>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Metropolitan areas: </strong><strong class="medium CharOverride-3">this includes Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, and Sheffield city-region, which compare with a range of European cities, including major capitals such as Brussels Capital Region, and Ile de France</strong></li>
	<li class="number_list_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Urban areas: </strong><strong class="medium CharOverride-3">this includes Cheshire and Warrington, Tees Valley, Liverpool city-region and North Eastern and Lancashire &ndash; some of which are conventionally regarded as quite rural, but have an economy concentrated in their small cities, and are significantly less rural than many European areas. These compare to areas such as Nord Pas de Calais and Darmstadt.</strong></li>
	<li class="number_list_1_last ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Rural areas</strong>: this includes Cumbria, York, North Yorkshire and East Riding, and the Humber. These compare to areas like Basilicata, La Rioja and Munster.</li>
</ol>
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</div></article><article id="analysis" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">3.</span><span class="chapter-title">Analysis</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="chapter_subhead ParaOverride-19">local economic resilience across the north of England</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="3.1-findings">3.1 Findings</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-2">The North&rsquo;s resilience is as varied as its geography. The indicators are summarised in figures 3.1 to 3.4, and taken collectively present a picture &ndash; albeit partial &ndash; of the relative resilience of northern LEPs. However, measuring resilience is not an exact science &ndash; nor is it purely a quantitative task, requiring qualitative assessment and judgement. Based on this analysis we grouped the North&rsquo;s LEPs into the following three categories.</p>

<ol>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resilient or prosperous:</strong> areas that are relatively well prepared, with a diverse economy and strong labour market &ndash; Cheshire and Warrington, and York North Yorkshire and East Riding fall into this category. These will require an approach that boosts innovation in their thriving sectors to world-class status, and transport connectivity that enables neighbouring regions to benefit from their&nbsp;growth.</li>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dynamic but vulnerable:</strong> Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Lancashire, North Eastern and Liverpool city-region have a diverse or diversifying economic base, but have some structural flaws, especially compared to similar city-regions in the EU &ndash; primarily in their labour market, but also in their connectivity with one another. These will require an approach that accelerates this transformation by connecting these major cities with one another so that innovation spillovers are maximised and further focus on education and skills.</li>
	<li class="number_list_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dependent or vulnerable:</strong> the Humber, Tees Valley, Sheffield city-region and Cumbria are all areas that have not yet diversified, are reliant on a single industry or small group of industries, and still have significant structural issues to overcome. These urgently need support to avoid the risk of yet further decline, and in many cases there is mutual benefit in connecting these areas to their more prosperous neighbours.</li>
</ol>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Business base</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</figure>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Labour force</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</figure>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Entrepreneurialism</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 3.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Governance</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-21">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="subhead_1" id="3.2-priorities">3.2 Priorities</p>

<p class="body_para">The government&rsquo;s place-based industrial strategy must build resilient local economies across the North. It cannot just subsidise large employers already here to persuade them to stay, it must aim to diversify the North&rsquo;s economy, and resolve some of the fundamental challenges that persist &ndash; in&nbsp;the supply of skills, transport connectivity, and the lack of innovation.</p>

<p class="body_para">In order to take forward this approach, the third main recommendation for this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report is driven from the bottom-up.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Recommendation 3: The North&rsquo;s LEPs, working closely with relevant local and combined authorities, should each conduct a resilience audit that sets out in detail the threats to their economy in the wake of Brexit. This audit should then be used to inform a strategic response, and a set of asks from the government that are tailored to acting on this strategy as part of a new round of devolution deals with each LEP area that mesh LEP priorities with those of the industrial strategy being developed by central government.</strong></p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">The remainder of this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report assesses each of the LEPs in turn. First we turn to the core cities of the North: Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Liverpool city-region, the North East and Sheffield. We then analyse the (often polycentric) urban areas that are often adjacent to these core cities: Cheshire and Warrington, Tees Valley and Lancashire. Finally, we assess the more rural and peripheral areas of the North: Cumbria, the Humber and York, and North Yorkshire and East Riding.</p>
</div>
</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-metropolitan-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">4.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: metropolitan areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-1">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 4.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Metropolitan, non-industrial areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1" id="4.1-greater-manchester">4.1 Greater Manchester</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Greater Manchester is the second largest metropolitan hub in the North. Its scale is significant: it has a population of 2.8 million a GVA of &pound;56&nbsp;billion (larger than that of Wales).<span class="CharOverride-4"><span id="footnote-002-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-002">1</a></span></span> The city&rsquo;s horizons have always reached beyond UK borders, but compared to similar regions in Europe it is only middle ranking: it has a population the size of Lisbon&rsquo;s; an economy the size of Prague&rsquo;s; productivity levels that compare to Berlin; and a rate of unemployment similar to Rotterdam and Warsaw. It is highly dynamic and able to adapt, but its labour force leaves it more vulnerable than it should be to any future difficulties.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Greater Manchester has a diverse and modern economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Diversity is high, with thriving modern and trading sectors.</strong> It has the second-lowest specialisation index of northern LEPs, its high-tech sector is the largest of the core cities (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and knowledge-intensive business services employment is second highest only to Cheshire and Warrington in the North (at 14.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) &ndash; both these sectors are growing faster than wider trends; however, tradable sectors account for a low 29.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of output.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-8">Greater Manchester: The economy is diverse with disproportionate growth in both knowledge-intensive business services and high-tech manufacturing<br />
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-23">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There is a large pool of talent to draw on, but low resident qualifications mean many are excluded.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-15"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a large labour pool, but qualification rates are low.</strong> Retention of residents who have graduated is high (81.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 15,000 more graduates move in each year than leave &ndash; and yet only a third (33.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) of residents have degree-level qualifications,<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-001-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-001">2</a></span></span> and 10.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Job creation fails to keep up with population growth</strong>. Despite its vibrant economic base, there are only 71.5 jobs for every 100 working-age residents; although 22,000 more people commute into the city than leave for work and 89.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work there.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-24"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is low</strong>. The unemployment rate is quite high, at 6.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although the proportion of JSA claimants claiming for more than six months is slightly below average, at 45&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; and the employment rate is below average, at 70.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy is dynamic and innovative.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is high rate of businesses churning in the economy</strong>. Business registration was a healthy 3.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent a year, but only 57.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent survived three years, and self-employment is below average (13&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to reach high growth rates</strong>. 6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups managed to achieve a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years (among the highest of English LEP areas), although SME investment in R&amp;D was relatively low (15&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region is an exemplar for devolution and governance in the UK.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">City-region institutions are strong, well established and cohesive.</strong> Decades of city-wide collaboration crystallised with the country&rsquo;s first combined authority in 2011 and a mayor will be elected in 2017.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The results of good governance are being recognised.</strong> Not only did the city-region secure &pound;533 million (&pound;193 per capita), but it is exercising some control over &pound;6 billion of health and social care spending; planning and development spending is also high, at &pound;24&nbsp;per capita.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="4.2-leeds-city-region">4.2 Leeds city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Leeds city-region sits at the core of the northern powerhouse. With 3&nbsp;million people and &pound;63 billion economic output, it is the largest LEP area outside London. Like many UK cities, it deindustrialised long ago, however, unlike these cities it suffers from low productivity &ndash; behind Greater Manchester and Sheffield who share its service-oriented economy, and also behind Birmingham and Glasgow city-regions. Among similar city-regions it has more in common with Athens than with other mid-ranking continental cities such as Prague or Vienna. It is one of the dynamic but vulnerable parts of the North: with a diverse economy, but a labour force that needs to adapt.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has a diverse and modern metropolitan economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economy is diverse and service-oriented.</strong> It has the most diverse economy in the North, with a relatively low share of public sector employment (18.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), it has a larger manufacturing base than other northern cities (10.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and high-tech employment is 5.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (although falling disproportionately), and knowledge intensive business services employment is high compared to northern areas &ndash; below the national concentration (13.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but catching up. Despite a small advanced manufacturing sector, the area has an above average share of GVA from tradables (32&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), due to its service sector.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Leeds city-region: There are a range of specialisms in this diverse economy, and modern sectors are growing<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
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<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Leeds city-region has a more self-contained labour market.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-25"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Despite its strong higher education sector, the skills of the overall workforce are low.</strong> Residents who graduate tend not to stay in Leeds as much as in other major cities (74.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and only a relatively small number of students flow in (1,300); only 31.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess degree-level qualifications and 9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The labour market is self-contained.</strong> Job density is about average at 75.7 jobs for every 100 residents, but the LEP covers a large area containing many towns and cities &ndash; as a result 93.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work within the LEP area, and only marginally more (860) come in than leave.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">However, economic inclusion is average.</strong> Unemployment is slightly higher than average (5.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the employment rate is slightly poorer than nationally (72.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the long-term JSA claimant proportion is slightly lower (44.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">New businesses tend to be healthy and dynamic.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The area appears to be quite entrepreneurial</strong>. Self-employment is 13.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, business registration is 3.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and 60.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of businesses survive their first three years (these compare very well with other northern city-regions).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to be quite innovative and many reach high turnover rates</strong>. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invest in R&amp;D, while 6.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent reach &pound;1 million turnover in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-4">Leeds city-region&rsquo;s LEP has been successful in drawing down money from central government, but its lack of governance reform has held back devolution.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-13"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Progress on devolution has been held back over geography and forms of governance.</strong> There is a combined authority, but unlike Greater Manchester its geography doesn&rsquo;t match with that of the LEP or the historic West Yorkshire county. There has been a devolution deal but devolution has so far been curtailed as local stakeholders fail to agree on whether to have a mayor or the geography over which they might exercise new powers.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-26"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">But this hasn&rsquo;t held it back from receiving government funding.</strong> The LEP has been highly successful in attracting funds from central government, securing &pound;628 million (&pound;207&nbsp;per resident) &ndash; the most generous of any growth deal &ndash; but it is middle ranking for spending on planning and development per capita, at &pound;18 per resident.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="4.3-sheffield-city-region">4.3 Sheffield city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">Sheffield city-region&rsquo;s economy falls between two stools: it has both the service-intensive economy of the major metropolitan areas and the high-tech economy of the urban areas but it fails to specialise in either of these. It has higher GVA per capita than neighbouring Leeds CR, but in other respects has more in common with the urban areas that are still struggling to transition from post-industrial to modern, prosperous regions. Its economy is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The business base lacks diversity and is still in transition from its industrial past.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is lacking in diversity or modern sectors</strong>. Sector diversity is lower than the other major cities and it retains a relatively large proportion of employment in manufacturing, which makes up 11.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment, and although only 5.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment is in high-tech this is increasing ahead of wider trends; knowledge-intensive business services employment is relatively low (9.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and in relative decline, while the public sector makes up a high 21.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent. The city does not export very much: at 29.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent its tradable share of output is the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Sheffield city-region: Employment isn&rsquo;t diverse, nor is it diversifying quickly<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city has major labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Qualification levels are poor &ndash; though not as bad as the North&rsquo;s other metropolitan areas.</strong> Only a small proportion are degree-level qualified (28.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), while 9.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent hold no qualifications at all; graduate retention is poor (70.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 15,000 more graduates leave each year than move in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Part of the problem is lack of jobs.</strong> There are only 69.6 jobs per 100 residents, only 86.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the city-region (second lowest of the North&rsquo;s major cities), and 14,800 more people leave than come into the region to work.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">And too many don&rsquo;t work at all.</strong> Unemployment remains relatively high at 6.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, as does the proportion of long-term JSA claimants (47.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and the employment rate is low at 71.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Entrepreneurialism is about average, but a fair number of firms thrive.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high rate of startups but a relatively high number fail</strong>. New business registration is a relatively high 3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but the three-year survival rate is a relatively low 59.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; the area has below average self-employment (12.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-5">Innovation appears quite high and a good proportion do very well</strong><span class="CharOverride-5">. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of SMEs invested in R&amp;D, and a relatively high proportion of startups reached &pound;1 million turnover in these three years &ndash; 7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (higher than Greater Manchester or Leeds city-region). </span></li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is well established though must keep pace with other northern cities.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance is relatively strong</strong>. The area has established a combined authority, and will elect a mayor in 2017, but there are challenges concerning its overlap with the D2N2 local enterprise partnership<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-000-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-000">3</a></span></span> &ndash; stretching across into the East Midlands region &ndash; and its devolution deal is less expansive than elsewhere.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">A growth deal will help the city-region invest.</strong> The LEP was able to secure &pound;177 per capita in its recent growth deal &ndash; the third-highest funding per capita in the North &ndash; and at &pound;18 per capita, it is middle ranking in its spend on planning and development.</li>
</ul>

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<div class="footnotes">
<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-002-backlink" id="footnote-002">1</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</div>

<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-001-backlink" id="footnote-001">2</a> All references to &lsquo;degree-level qualifications&rsquo; mean NVQ level 4 or above.</p>
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<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-000-backlink" id="footnote-000">3</a> Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire LEP.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-urban-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">5.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: urban areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-1">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 5.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-4">Urban non-industrial areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1" id="5.1-liverpool-city-region">5.1 Liverpool city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Liverpool city-region has a deindustrialised economy, with low levels of employment in industrial activities, and productivity rate in the service sector that&rsquo;s relatively high.<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-003-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-5.xhtml#footnote-003">4</a></span></span> For this reason it reflects a cluster of highly tertiarised urban centres including four Dutch regions as well as some prosperous shires in the south of England but, despite some economic and geographical similarities, Liverpool city-region lacks their prosperity &ndash; in GVA per capita terms it ranks last of these &ndash; and within the North it sits alongside areas such as Tees Valley and the North East.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Niche specialisms have broken through in an otherwise lagging economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The city-region lacks sector diversity and depends on the public sector.</strong> It has the lowest diversity of the northern cities, with high public sector employment (22.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and low employment in manufacturing (7.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and high-tech (5.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and knowledge-intensive business services (10.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). Compared to wider trends, high-tech employment is falling but, encouragingly, knowledge-intensive business services employment is rising at a faster rate.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for 29.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional production &ndash; below UK and Northern average, reflecting both its deindustrialisation and a service sector that is on the rise.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-2">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Liverpool city-region: There is little specialism and few sectors are high growth, although there are signs of increasing modernisation<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has significant labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Despite strong universities, resident qualification levels are poor</strong>. Retention of resident graduates is very high (83.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the city fails to attract enough from elsewhere, meaning 6,700 more leave than come in; only 29.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents hold the equivalent of a degree and 11.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents have no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There simply aren&rsquo;t enough jobs to provide work for residents or attract people from elsewhere</strong>. Despite being a city, there are only 65.6 jobs for every 100 residents &ndash; the lowest job density in the North &ndash; and only 84&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area, with 100,000 residents leaving the area to work, and only 69,000 commuting in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">A large proportion of residents are excluded from the labour market.</strong> Unemployment is high, at 6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but long-term unemployment is a high 52.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and the employment rate is the lowest in the North, at 67.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There is no lack of entrepreneurial spirit, but few businesses survive or grow quickly.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high rate of business registration but a significant proportion fail.</strong> The business startup rate is a healthy 3.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (as high as 11&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent in 2015), but self-employment is low (11.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the three-year survival rate was 58.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; lower than most other northern city-regions.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to be highly innovative, but in general don&rsquo;t reach high rates of turnover</strong>. SME R&amp;D activity was the highest in the North (19&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but only 6.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups achieved a turnover of &pound;1 million after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is stronger than in many areas, and the area has been quite successful at winning funds from the government.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution is well under way.</strong> The city-region has a cohesive policy geography: the LEP and combined authority are well aligned with historic Merseyside boundaries; its devolution deal secured a range of powers; and a mayor will be elected in 2017.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Funding has been won &ndash; but not as much as in other northern cities</strong>. Liverpool city-region secured &pound;264 million in government funding through its growth deal (&pound;173 per resident) &ndash; in absolute and relative terms this is well above the LEP average but below Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield city-region &ndash; and at &pound;13 per capita, spending on planning and development is the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.2-north-eastern">5.2 North Eastern</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">The North Eastern LEP area has undergone major changes to its business base but continues to lag behind other parts of the north on a range of economic indicators &ndash; although recent trends are more encouraging. The region has much in common with &lsquo;post-industrial success stories&rsquo; &ndash; predominantly in the UK (Lancashire, Cheshire and Warrington, and Tees Valley in the North) and in the Benelux region. These tend to have an industrial sector that is highly productive relative to the rest of the economy, but is relatively low in employment. Compared to these areas, though, the North Eastern LEP area performs below average in terms of GDP per capita. It is a dynamic but vulnerable area that has historically suffered because of lower skills in its labour force.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Low sector diversity risks hindering prosperity.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area&rsquo;s economy isn&rsquo;t particularly diverse and growth is relatively slow in modern sectors. </strong>It is less diverse than LEP areas which include a core city, with a relatively high proportion of employment in the public sector (21.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and it has a high proportion of manufacturing (11.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and high-tech (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). However, its knowledge-intensive business services are underrepresented (10.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and increasing in employment far slower than nationally.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for 31.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output &ndash; broadly in line with UK figures.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-3">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">North Eastern: Diversity is low and modern sectors are falling behind<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has significant labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Residents&rsquo; qualification levels are low</strong>. A high proportion of residents who graduate stay in the city (79.9 per cent) than leave each year; however, the proportion of degree-level qualified residents is 30.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, while 10.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent hold no qualifications at all. However, these figures relate to the whole of the North East population, and the region&rsquo;s younger residents are relatively well qualified: qualification rates in Newcastle compare very favourably to other core cities, and&nbsp;there is a particularly high rate of vocational qualification in the LEP area.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">There aren&rsquo;t enough jobs to go round</strong>. Job density is low (69.2 per 100 residents), and while a high proportion of residents work in the area (94.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent): more than 49,000 residents commute outward &ndash;compared to 34,000 inward commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-29"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is still has some distance to travel. </strong>Despite impressive jobs growth in recent years the employment rate is low (69.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and there are high rates of unemployment (7.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), although the long-term JSA claimant proportion is about average (45.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-11">Business could be more dynamic, but a large number of startups are very successful.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Entrepreneurship is below average.</strong> Self-employment was among the lowest in the North (10.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and business registration and survival were just below average (2.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and 59&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent respectively.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Innovation is low but growth rates are high.</strong> SME investment in R&amp;D was 16&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but 7.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reached &pound;1 million turnover in three years &ndash; the highest rate in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Despite previous successes, governance is running into difficulties.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution showed initial progress but has recently encountered setbacks.</strong> The North East Combined Authority (NECA) aligned with the LEP and was set for a mayor &ndash; however, after internal differences devolution is now on hold and there are plans afoot for three of these local authorities to go it alone &ndash; Newcastle, Northumberland and North Tyneside.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">Its ability to spend on the local economy is more limited than in other northern cities. <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP has been relatively successful in securing funding from government. It secured the fifth-largest growth deal funding in the country (&pound;330 million), but at &pound;169 per resident this amounts to less than other major northern cities; spend on planning and development is low, at &pound;15 per capita.</strong></li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.3-cheshire-and-warrington">5.3 Cheshire and Warrington</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Cheshire and Warrington is the most productive economy in the North and compares well with similar regions in Europe. Its GVA per capita is far higher than most similar areas, and of these it comes third to Noord-Brabant and Antwerp in the whole EU. It is a polycentric economy, revolving around a number of thriving towns and the city of Chester. Its location &ndash; between Greater Manchester (with its airport) and Liverpool city-region (with its port), and on the border with Wales &ndash; means it is strategically placed to engage in the international value chain. It is a resilient and prosperous area.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A diverse business base underpins its economic resilience.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high degree of diversity and dynamism</strong>. It has the third-lowest specialisation index in the North, a large share of employment in high-tech (9.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; but in relative decline), knowledge-intensive business services (15.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; and rising ahead of broader trends) and low employment in the public sector (14.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and manufacturing (8.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable goods account for 41.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output &ndash; the highest figure in the North and second highest in England but could leave it vulnerable to turbulence ahead.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-4">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Cheshire and Warrington: Employment is diverse and growing strongly, with specialisms across several modern sectors<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A skilled labour force lies behind these cutting-edge industries and knowledge-intensive businesses.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Residents are highly qualified, but many new graduates tend to leave.</strong> 39.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent are degree-level qualified, but there is an annual net flow of graduates out of the area of 12,000.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Its labour market is an excellent provider of jobs.</strong> It has the highest job density in the North (85.6 jobs for every 100 working-age residents) and while a low proportion of residents work within the area (74.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) it provides employment for almost as many people from outside the area as Greater Manchester does (138,000).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is high.</strong> Unemployment is a low 3.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, relatively few JSA claimants have been claiming long-term (41.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the employment rate is a high 75.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Its economy is dynamic &ndash; especially for a non-metropolitan area.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Startup and survival rates are higher than similar areas.</strong> Self-employment is quite high (15.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and it has a healthy business registration rate of 3.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent a year and businesses tend to survive longer than in similar areas &ndash; 63.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of new businesses survive three years.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses do tend to be innovative, but don&rsquo;t tend to reach high growth rates &ndash; in line with similar areas</strong>. A high proportion of SMEs invested in R&amp;D (18&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but only 6.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups had a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is lagging behind other parts of the North, although the region has been successful in attracting growth deal funding.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance isn&rsquo;t as advanced as other areas.</strong> Unlike other parts of the North, there is no combined authority or potential for a mayor&ndash; largely as a result of the area sitting between two cities but not being one.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-31"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area has been successful in attracting growth deal funding</strong>. In the latest growth deal, the area secured &pound;172 per resident &ndash; the fourth-highest figure among LEPs without extensive devolved powers &ndash; but per capita spending on planning and development is the lowest in the North (&pound;17) and could undermine future growth potential.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.4-tees-valley">5.4 Tees Valley</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">Tees Valley is in the middle of a challenging transition. Like Cheshire and Warrington, and Lancashire, it is a post-industrial urban area, but unlike these areas it still has further distance to travel. It has lower productivity compared to its peers in the North (Cheshire and Warrington and Cumbria) and Europe(places such as Liege and Leipzig). Like these areas it has a high proportion of employment in industry; however, this industry has lower levels of productivity and is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-5">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.5</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Tees Valley: The public sector dominates and is growing disproportionately, but so are the high-tech and knowledge-intensive business services sectors<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="body_para_into_list">This sector-mix lacks diversity, although this is changing.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is the least diverse economy in the North, but high-tech is a particular strength</strong>. It has the highest specialisation index in the North, with high public sector employment (22.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and low employment in knowledge-intensive business services (11.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). However, while manufacturing employment isn&rsquo;t particularly high (9.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), a very high share of employment is in high-tech (9.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and both high-tech and knowledge-intensive business services are growing ahead of wider trends. Tradables make up one-third of the economy (32.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There are deep-seated problems in the labour market.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Qualification levels are low.</strong> Residents&rsquo; qualification levels are low, with 30.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent degree-level qualified and 10.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the working-age population having no qualifications. The relatively small number of people who graduate in the region tend to leave &ndash; there is a retention rate of 77.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and (a net outflow of 12,500).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The area fails to provide jobs for residents.</strong> There are only 66.9&nbsp;jobs per 100 working age residents, 86.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area (middle-ranking amongst northern LEPs) and 3,000 more leave to work than commute.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Many are excluded from the economy.</strong> The employment rate is a low 69&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and unemployment is a high 7.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although the proportion claiming JSA for six months is below average (43.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The business base is surprisingly dynamic.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a strong entrepreneurial economy</strong>. Self-employment is the lowest in the North (10.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the business registration rate was highest in the North &ndash; at 4.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent this was second only to London in England &ndash; and the three-year survival rate was 61&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (better than average).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">However, these don&rsquo;t tend to be high growth or innovative firms</strong>. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D, but only 5.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups make it to the &pound;1 million turnover mark.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Good governance hasn&rsquo;t yet been rewarded with funding.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Tees Valley has stronger governance than its neighbours, but is behind the North&rsquo;s major cities.</strong> The area has a combined authority, and will elect a mayor in 2017. However, its devolution deal lacks the skills and public service reform elements seen in some other deals.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">And direct funding hasn&rsquo;t been forthcoming from government.</strong> The LEP only secured &pound;156 per capita &ndash; this is less than most northern LEPs &ndash; however, spend on planning and development is quite high, at &pound;23 per resident.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.5-lancashire">5.5 Lancashire</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-8">Lancashire&rsquo;s impressive manufacturing reinvention has yet to pull the whole region out of long-term decline, but it is making progress. Its location and its connectivity are crucial assets &ndash; it is strategically positioned adjacent to both Greater Manchester and Liverpool city-regions. This has historically underpinned its manufacturing tradition, and has retained a relatively strong industrial base, but this is now a high productivity, not high employment, sector. In this, it is similar to post-industrial urban areas, found predominantly in the UK and in the Benelux region. However, compared to these, Lancashire fares worse than average for GDP per capita (due to poor service sector productivity). It is one of the most dynamic but vulnerable parts of the North.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The area lacks sector diversity but shows the beginnings of progress.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The economy isn&rsquo;t very diverse, but some of the sectors that dominate are modern. </strong>It is middle ranking within the North for economic diversification, due to both the dominance of manufacturing (20.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and high-tech makes up a relatively large share of employment (8.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but it also has a large share of employment in low-value service activities &ndash; knowledge-intensive business services account for only 9.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment, although this is growing disproportionately, as high-tech employment falls.<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable goods account for 32.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional economy.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.6</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Lancashire: Employment in the larger sectors isn&rsquo;t growing, but knowledge-intensive business services are on the increase<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Resident qualifications are poor, but the labour market functions well by connecting with its neighbouring cities.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Lancashire&rsquo;s skills base threatens to undermine progress</strong>. Only 30.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents have degree-level qualifications, and 10&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualification at all. Residents who graduate do tend to stay in the area (80.5 per cent doing so) with a net inflow of&nbsp;4,900.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Job creation isn&rsquo;t high enough to provide jobs for all residents</strong>. There are 75.5 jobs for every 100 working-age residents, and while 87.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area, there&rsquo;s a net outflow of 12,000 commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">These linkages appear to be working well for residents.</strong> Unemployment is below the national rate, at 4.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although a higher than average share has been claiming JSA longer than six months (46.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), while the employment rate is 74.2 &ndash; higher than nationally.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Businesses don&rsquo;t tend to be very dynamic or entrepreneurial.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The business base isn&rsquo;t particularly dynamic</strong>. There is a low rate of business registration (1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but quite a high rate of three-year survival (58.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses invest in R&amp;D but not many reach high growth rates</strong>. R&amp;D investment is high among SMEs (18&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) but only 6.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reach a &pound;1 million turnover in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-4">There is historic collaboration across the area, but devolution hasn&rsquo;t yet taken off.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-25"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP benefits somewhat from its rough alignment with an upper-tier authority.</strong> There are some other shared-service arrangements involving generally two or three local authorities, but there is no combined authority or devolution deal proposed.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">This may have held back government funding to an extent</strong>. Lancashire LEP secured &pound;251 million in government funding through its growth deal (&pound;170 per resident) &ndash; higher than average and the fifth-highest among LEPs without combined authorities &ndash; but at &pound;13 per resident, spending per capita on planning and development is one of the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

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<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-5.xhtml#footnote-003-backlink" id="footnote-003">4</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-rural-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">6.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: rural areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-1">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 6.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-5">Non-urban areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.1-cumbria">6.1 Cumbria</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">The Cumbrian economy combines the rural with the industrial.<span class="CharOverride-4"><span id="footnote-005-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-005">5</a></span></span> Its large territory belies a small economy, but this economy has pockets of highly productive industrial employment in what is otherwise a sparse and rural area. It is most similar to north-eastern Scotland within the UK, and to parts of rural Spain and Scandinavia in Europe. However, it is among the less prosperous of these areas: GVA per capita is below their average,<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-004-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-004">6</a></span></span> and it ranks 13th of 17 regions that fit this typology. Cumbria&rsquo;s role is nonetheless vital: its prime sectors &ndash; nuclear and defence &ndash; are of strategic national importance, while the Lake District is a natural asset which helps to underpin the North&rsquo;s attractiveness (NIER 2016). Its economy is, however, more vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy is not diverse, and modern sectors are lacking.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It relies on public sector employment and low-productivity manufacturing.</strong> It has a relatively high specialisation index, and a high proportion of employment in the public sector (23.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and manufacturing (16.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but low employment in both high-tech (4.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable sectors account for a healthy 36.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output, but this leaves the area quite vulnerable to any trade challenges in the years ahead.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Cumbria: Employment is strong and growing in manufacturing, but it lacks diversity<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>and modern sectors are falling behind<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The labour force is relatively self-sufficient and medium skilled.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Residents tend to be medium- to low-skilled.</strong> There are relatively fewer workers with degree-level qualifications (31&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but also fewer with no qualifications at all (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent); retaining residents who have graduated is a major problem &ndash; there is a net outflow of 22,000 new graduates a year and 72.8 per cent of residents who graduate stay in the area.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is quite self-sufficient</strong> <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">and provides jobs for residents elsewhere.</strong> 95.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents in employment work in the region and there is a net inflow of 17,000 people to work, and a healthy 85.5 jobs per 100 working-age residents.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is above average.</strong> The unemployment rate is a relatively low 4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and employment is a relatively high 76.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; however, a large proportion of JSA claimants have been claiming longer than six months (57.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-20">The economy lacks entrepreneurialism, but most businesses that start survive.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Business registration is low but survival is high</strong>. The business registration rate was only 1.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but 66.6 per cent of firms survived three years (the highest figure in the UK), and self-employment is also high, at 16&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-29"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Investment in R&amp;D is very low, and few of these firms reach high turnover quickly. </strong>Cumbrian SMEs don&rsquo;t tend to invest in R&amp;D (12&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; joint lowest in the North) and their startups are unlikely to have a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years (only 2.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Devolution hasn&rsquo;t yet taken hold in Cumbria.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is no combined authority yet.</strong> Cumbria has so far failed to establish a combined authority or sign a major devolution deal with government, though being a two-tier county this is perhaps more understandable and doesn&rsquo;t necessarily imply poor governance &ndash; discussions are ongoing.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP failed to win much growth deal funding.</strong> The local enterprise partnership managed to secure only &pound;47.7 million (&pound;96 per capita) &ndash; this is the lowest level of funding received in England both in absolute and in relative terms &ndash; and little is spent on planning and development (only &pound;18 per capita).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.2-humber">6.2 Humber</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">The Humber&rsquo;s once-prosperous economy is still adapting to globalisation. The region was once a powerhouse of industries that are now in decline: whether large-scale heavy industry and production of textiles, or fishing and agriculture. The Humber is one of many regions with such a history and composition &ndash; areas like the non-urban industrial heartlands such as the German L&auml;nder of Saxony and Bavaria &ndash; but even compared to these its GVA per capita is poor. Its economy is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The Humber relies on a handful of sectors, but its economy is positioned to trade strongly.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economic base lacks diversity and the manufacturing base needs further modernisation.</strong> It has one of the North&rsquo;s less diverse economies, and while it has high manufacturing employment (16.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) only 4.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment is in high-tech, and only 9.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent is in knowledge-intensive business services &ndash; both are declining at a rate that&rsquo;s disproportionate.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for a healthy 36.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the Humber&rsquo;s GVA &ndash; but this, of course, leaves it more exposed to any turbulence ahead.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-3">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Humber: Manufacturing dominates and is growing, but few other sectors thrive<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>and modern sectors are struggling<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The Humber&rsquo;s labour market has major challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resident qualification rates are low.</strong> It has the lowest share of highly qualified residents in the North: just 27.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess degree-level qualifications, and 9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of its residents have no qualification at all; graduate retention is a low 72.8 per cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economy has fewer jobs.</strong> There are only 70 jobs for every 100 working-age residents, with 89.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents working in the area, and a net outflow of 14,000 commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">This leaves many looking for work for a long time, or giving up.</strong> Unemployment is above average (6.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and employment is below (72.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and quite a high proportion of JSA claimants have been looking for work for more than six months (47&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy could be more dynamic but startups can be successful.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Businesses don&rsquo;t tend to start or do well in this area.</strong> Self-employment is low at 11.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and the business registration rate was only 1.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, with only 53.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of businesses surviving three years after their creation.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Businesses aren&rsquo;t innovative and but quite a high proportion reach high rates of turnover.</strong> Only 12&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D (joint lowest in the North with Cumbria) but 6.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reach a turnover of &pound;1 million in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-2">Poor governance adds to the area&rsquo;s difficulties, but it is planning for the future.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">No devolution has taken place in the Humber</strong>. The geography of devolution has been hotly contested in Yorkshire and within the LEP area itself, and this has held the Humber back &ndash; this is complicated further by the fact that the LEP area includes two local authorities that are part of the Greater Lincolnshire Combined Authority (GLCA)</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">However, the LEP has attracted a reasonable amount of funding.</strong> The LEP secured &pound;114 million of funding from the government (&pound;123 per resident), broadly in line with the average of English LEPs (albeit low in the North); however, the area spends &pound;26 per capita on planning and development &ndash; the highest in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.3-york-north-yorkshire-and-east-riding">6.3 York, North Yorkshire and East Riding</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">York, North Yorkshire and East Riding (YNYER) is a rural and relatively prosperous area within the North. It is one of few northern areas that is neither urban nor industrial &ndash; it has a great deal in common with southern and eastern LEPs in the UK, and places such as Galicia, Bretagne and Friesland in the rest of the EU. York is its only city, and its population is otherwise dispersed among a number of small towns. While it is a prosperous and productive area in its own right, it has important connections with the rest of the North &ndash; and especially Leeds city-region. It is a resilient and prosperous area.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economic base is both diverse and balanced between several sectors &ndash; but lacking any particular specialism.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economic base is diverse and isn&rsquo;t dominated by any particular sector</strong>. It has a specialisation index that is second only to Cheshire and Warrington of the non-metropolitan areas, and isn&rsquo;t dominated by either public sector employment (18.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) or manufacturing (10.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent); both the knowledge-intensive business services and high-tech sectors are smaller than average (9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and 5.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent respectively) and both are shrinking in relative terms.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">This is not an area geared strongly towards trading. The area does not have a strong base in tradables (30.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and lacks either the tradable services or the manufacturing base of many post-industrial towns elsewhere.</p>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-4">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">York, North Yorkshire and East Riding: Employment is distributed among a&nbsp;number of sectors, and growth in moderns sectors is low<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A healthy labour market underpins this prosperity.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The population is highly qualified</strong>. It lacks the mass of students found elsewhere, has low graduate retention (67.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 14,000 more graduates leave than come in. However, 36.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have degree-level qualifications and only 6.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualifications.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Job density is average, but many residents commute to nearby city-regions.</strong> There are 78.1 jobs per 100 working-age residents, but a third of residents work outside the area (the highest of any northern LEP) and with 56,000 more people commuting out than commute in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">These linkages work well for residents.</strong> The unemployment rate is low (3.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), the long-term JSA claimant proportion is the lowest in the North (39.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and the employment rate is very high (79.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">New businesses survive well, but aren&rsquo;t particularly innovative or profitable.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Few businesses start but a large proportion survive. A high 17.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of workers are self-employed (among the highest rate in the country), and survival rates are high (61.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), although registration is low, at just 2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">These businesses don&rsquo;t grow fast or show much sign of innovation. Only 13&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D and only 4.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent make &pound;1&nbsp;million turnover after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance and funding let the area down.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance is a major challenge</strong>. There is no combined authority, it overlaps with two other LEPs &ndash; Leeds city-region and the Humber &ndash; and issues over Yorkshire&rsquo;s future devolution and governance remain unresolved.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area has missed out on vital funding.</strong> It only received &pound;98.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;capita in its growth deal &ndash; the second lowest in the North &ndash; but is among the highest spenders on planning and development in the North, at &pound;26 per capita.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-005-backlink" id="footnote-005">5</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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		</div></div></article><article id="annex" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-title">Annex</span></h1><p class="body_para">The authors adapted and modified a typology developed by Aumayr (2007), also using the methodology of de Beer et al (2014) to adapt this to LEP and NUTS 2 areas. The following criteria were used to break European regions into 18 typologies.</p>
			<ol>
<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Metropolitan status:</strong> includes in its entirety a larger urban zone of more than 1.5 million people, or is the principal region covered by the larger urban zone (data on metro area population: Eurostat 2014).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Urban/non-urban:</strong> a region is classified as predominantly urban (PU) if it has more than 40 per cent of the population living in constituent NUTS3 regions that are classified as PU by Eurostat, and less than 33 per cent of the population living in NUTS3 regions that are classified as predominantly rural (PR) by Eurostat. A region is classified as PR if it has more than 33 per cent of the population living in NUTS3 regions that are classified as PR by Eurostat, and less than 40 per cent living in regions classified as PU by Eurostat. All others are classified as intermediate (IN), whether they have <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">both</em> more than 40 per cent living in PU and less than 33 per cent living in PR, or they have <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">neither</em>. In line with the typology developed by Aumayr (2007), there is a distinction in the typology framework between urban (PR) and non-urban (PR and IN). The NUTS3-to-NUTS2 conversion follows the methodology developed by de Beer et al (2014).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Central/peripheral:</strong> a region is classified as peripheral if it is either:<ul>
<li class="bullet_2 _idGenParaOverride-1">entirely insular, or </li>
<li class="bullet_2_last _idGenParaOverride-1">has a population density of less than 84.88 inhabitants per km<span class="CharOverride-4">2</span> (bottom third). </li>
</ul>
</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Industrial employment:</strong> a region with more than 15.32 per cent (median value) of employment in industry is classified as industrial.</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Relative sectorial productivity for industry (HIP/LIP):</strong> the index is calculated as the ratio between the share of GVA in industry and the share of employment in industry. A high industrial productivity region has a relative sectorial productivity index above 1.289 (median value).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Relative sectorial productivity for services (HSP/LSP):</strong> this index is calculated as the ratio between the share of GVA in services and the share of employment in services. A high service productivity region has relative sectorial productivity index above 0.986 (median value).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Tourist economy:</strong> regions are classified as tourist economies if they have more than 20 tourist beds per 1,000 inhabitants.</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Agrarian economy:</strong> regions are classified as agrarian if they have more than 10 per cent of their employment in agriculture.</li>
			</ol>
<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-7">There are far more categories than are necessary for the North’s 11 LEPs, but they are all listed below, with examples from among those LEPs where there is one or more.</p>
			<ol>
<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17">Metropolitan, industrial, high industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, industrial, low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, non-industrial, high services productivity (Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Sheffield city-region)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, non-industrial, low services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, industrial, high industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, industrial, low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial, high services productivity (Liverpool city-region)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial, low services productivity (Lancashire, Cheshire and Warrington, North Eastern, Tees Valley)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, agrarian</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, tourist</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial, high industrial productivity (Cumbria)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, non-industrial, high services productivity<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-006-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-8.xhtml#footnote-006">7</a></span></span>
</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, non-industrial, low services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, industrial, high industrial productivity (Humber)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, industrial low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, non-industrial, high services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last">Non-urban, central, non-industrial, low services productivity (York, North Yorkshire and East Riding).</li>
			</ol>
<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Comparator regions shown in figure 4.1</p>
			<table id="table001" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Metropolitan, non-industrial areas with relatively high services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Andalucía</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Área Metropolitana de Lisboa</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Attiki</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Campania</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Greater Manchester</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Île de France</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Közép-Magyarország</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lazio</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Leeds City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">London</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Mazowieckie</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Noord-Holland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Praha</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Région de Bruxelles-Capitale</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sheffield City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-f-row bas-row _idGenCellOverride-1">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Wien</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="subhead_2">Comparator regions shown in figure 5.1</p>
			<table id="table002" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial areas relatively high services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bratislavský kraj</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Darmstadt</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Eastern Scotland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Essex</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Flevoland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Gelderland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Hampshire and Isle of Wight</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Helsinki-Uusimaa</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Liguria</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Limburg (NL)</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Liverpool City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Vlaams-Brabant</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Surrey, East and West Sussex</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Utrecht</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial areas with relatively low services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Cheshire and Warrington</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Dorset and Somerset</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">East Wales</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Kent</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lancashire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Leipzig</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Noord-Brabant</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Nord - Pas-de-Calais</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">North Eastern</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Overijssel</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Antwerpen</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Hainaut</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Liège</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Tees Valley</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-f-row bas-row _idGenCellOverride-1">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">West Wales and The Valleys</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Comparator regions shown in figure 6.1</p>
			<table id="table003" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial areas with relatively low industrial productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Aragón</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Basilicata</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Castilla-la Mancha</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Comunidad Foral de Navarra</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Cumbria</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Dytiki Makedonia</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Etelä-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">La Rioja</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Länsi-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lietuva</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Norra Mellansverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">North Eastern Scotland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Östra Mellansverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Steiermark</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sterea Ellada</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Västsverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-urban, central, non-industrial areas with relatively low services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bretagne</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">East Anglia</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Friesland (NL)</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Galicia</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Groningen</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lüneburg</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Midtjylland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Principado de Asturias</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Brabant Wallon</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Schleswig-Holstein</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sjælland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Southern and Eastern</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">York, North Yorkshire and East Riding</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-urban, central, non-industrial areas with relatively high industrial productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Braunschweig</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Cantabria</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Észak-Magyarország</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Haute-Normandie</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Humber</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Münster</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Niederbayern</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Niederösterreich</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Nyugat-Dunántúl</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Oberösterreich</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Oberpfalz</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sachsen-Anhalt</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Schwaben</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Trier</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Tübingen</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-f-row bas-row _idGenCellOverride-1">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Weser-Ems</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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                      <p class="footnote"><a id="footnote-006" class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-8.xhtml#footnote-006-backlink">7</a>	Three urban peripheral regions (Malta, Sicily and Madeira) have also been included, as their insularity makes them more comparable to peripheral non-urban than to non-peripheral urban regions.</p>
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                    <a class="analysis" href="#analysis" title="Analysis"><span class="chapter-number">3.</span><span class="chapter-title">Analysis</span><br class="clear" /></a>                </li>
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                    <a class="resilience-profiles-urban-areas" href="#resilience-profiles-urban-areas" title="Resilience profiles: urban areas"><span class="chapter-number">5.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: urban areas</span><br class="clear" /></a>                </li>
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                    <a class="resilience-profiles-rural-areas" href="#resilience-profiles-rural-areas" title="Resilience profiles: rural areas"><span class="chapter-number">6.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: rural areas</span><br class="clear" /></a>                </li>
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            <article id="summary" class="chapter current" style=""><div class="Chapter-frame"><div id="_idContainer020" class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-title">Summary</span></h1><p class="body_para">Last year’s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report was full of confident projections of northern powerhouse potential. In substantive terms, little has changed: this year the northern economy has passed the £300 billion mark, jobs growth has motored on, and northern regions topped this year’s EY Attractiveness Survey for foreign investment.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">However, dark clouds are gathering on the horizon following the events of the past six months that have engendered more than a wobble – uncertainty now pervades the northern mood. Regardless of current quarter on quarter national GDP growth, the decision to leave the EU will have a profound effect on the northern economy. Whether in terms of trade, access to skilled labour or EU funding programmes, the implications of Brexit on the North will be profound. There will be upsides of course but for the time being business is cautious and concerned.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">The political fallout from the Brexit vote has also been severe. The champions for the northern powerhouse in the national government – former chancellor George Osborne and financial secretary Jim O’Neill – have both departed the main stage. Meanwhile, devolution deals appear to have stalled, and the focus on regional rebalancing has now been subsumed into a wider initiative to develop an industrial strategy. </p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">All this, however, presents new opportunities. While Osborne’s approach was always too partial, piecemeal and parochial, Greg Clark’s ambition to create a ‘place-based industrial strategy’ led by the powerful new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has the potential to ignite a new era of economic activism around some of the North’s major economic strengths.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">Such developments are timely. Following on from IPPR North’s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Blueprint for a Great North Plan</em> in January 2016, which set out a framework for a modern industrial strategy, Transport for the North unveiled in June the results of the Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review. The review identified four ‘primary economic capabilities’ where the North has been shown to have world-class assets and a further three ‘enabling capabilities’ that will underpin this potential.</p>
			<p class="body_para">Add to this the excellent progress being made in building powerhouse capacity in relation to transport infrastructure, finance, trade and investment; the northern powerhouse strategy and northern powerhouse schools strategy published alongside the chancellor’s autumn statement; and there should be cause for cautious optimism. Instead though, wider events mean that business confidence is weak and once again, the prospects of inclusive growth in the North are looking as distant as ever.</p>
			<p class="body_para">Our <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North 2016</em> report focuses on three key issues that will build business confidence in an era of increasing uncertainty.</p>
			<p id="securing-a-united-northern-voice-at-the-brexit-negotiating-table" class="subhead_1">Securing a united northern voice at the Brexit negotiating table</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4">The North has distinct economic assets and interests that present both opportunities and threats as the UK prepares to leave the European Union. However, the fledgling and patchy development of combined authorities, metro mayors and devolution deals in the North means that the region is not well placed to formulate a coherent response to Brexit. It will therefore struggle to match the response of the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales, or of the mayor of London or other well-established lobbying groups.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-5"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 1:</strong> <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">IPPR North calls for the formation of a Northern Brexit Negotiating Committee to determine the type of Brexit that would best suit the North, to speak with one voice in the negotiations, and to build direct relationships with regions and nations within and beyond the EU in order to develop and enhance its particular trade interests.</strong></p>
			<p id="establishing-clear-principles-for-a-place-based-industrial-strategy" class="subhead_1">Establishing clear principles for a place-based industrial strategy</p>
			<p class="body_para_into_list">The government’s industrial strategy represents an opportunity not only to address the implications of Brexit but also to take a more proactive approach to many of the structural challenges facing the UK economy, not least regional rebalancing. There are numerous ‘types’ of industrial strategy with varying degrees of intervention. IPPR has set out four clear ‘objectives’ that any new approach must address including the need to develop a strong spatial dimension to enable all parts of the country to contribute to its prosperity, but IPPR North believes that industrial strategy must adopt three ‘place-based principles’. </p>
			<ul>
<li class="bullet_1">
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Regional differentiation:</em> Develop a more sophisticated understanding of what drives growth in different types of region rather than the hitherto insufficient account of growth focused on urban agglomeration.</li>
				<li class="bullet_1">
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Co-ordinated investment:</em> Drive up public investment in infrastructure, research and development and other economic assets to match private sector investment and act as a catalyst for business innovation and smart specialisation.</li>
				<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6">
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution:</em> Develop and enhance its approach to devolution both to regional and local tiers of government with a much greater emphasis on fiscal powers to enable subnational bodies to direct investment on local economic opportunities.</li>
			</ul>
<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 2: IPPR North calls upon government to adopt a place-based approach to industrial strategy with the three core principles of regional differentiation, coordinated investment and devolution as its foundation.</strong></p>
			<p id="focusing-on-local-economic-resilience-alongside-growth-and-devolution" class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">FOCUSING ON LOCAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE ALONGSIDE GROWTH AND DEVOLUTION</strong></p>
			<p class="body_para">The large majority of our <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North 2016</em> report focuses on the importance of building local economic resilience. As with industrial strategy, there is a rich literature on how local economies resist and recover from economic shocks. Building on the work of Martin and Sunley (2014), IPPR North has developed a resilience framework consisting of four factors, each with a set of key indicators, and has used these to profile each of the 11 local enterprise partnership (LEP) areas across the North of England.</p>
			<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-8">Our analysis finds that the North’s resilience is as varied as its geography, but we have been able to group the North’s LEP areas into the following categories.</p>
			<ol>
<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-9">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resilient or prosperous:</strong> areas that are relatively well prepared, with a diverse economy and strong labour market</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dynamic but vulnerable:</strong> areas where there is a diverse or diversifying economic base, but have some structural flaws, especially compared to similar city-regions in the EU</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last ParaOverride-10">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dependent or vulnerable:</strong> areas that are reliant on a single industry or small group of industries, and have significant structural issues to overcome.</li>
			</ol>
<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 3: IPPR North recommends conducting LEP resilience audits. The North’s LEPs, working closely with relevant local and combined authorities, should each conduct a resilience audit that sets out in detail the threats to their economy in the wake of Brexit. This audit should then be used to inform a strategic response, and a set of asks from the government that are tailored to acting on this strategy as part of a new round of devolution deals with each LEP area.</strong></p>
		</div></div></article><article id="context" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">1.</span><span class="chapter-title">Context</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="chapter_subhead">Brexit and industrial strategy</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-11">The UK economy is set for a period of significant disruption. The EU referendum result pitched the nation into economic uncertainty, with Brexit itself looming just two years from April 2017. A new government has come to power, affording a prominent role to industrial strategy and inclusive growth. Meanwhile the northern powerhouse is now under new ownership with different ministers and new mayors soon to be elected in its major cities. These are significant changes, which will have a different effect on different parts of the North. Chapter 1 explores this changing context and argues that a principled, place-based industrial strategy could build a North that is more resilient to economic turbulence.</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.1-the-uk-and-the-european-union">1.1 The UK and the European Union</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-11">The nature of Brexit is subject to a range of political influences and decisions that are as yet unknown. The referendum vote signalled that the UK will leave the EU, but the terms of departure remain uncertain: parliament and various interest groups will seek to shape the settlement to their interests. The final deal will also be subject to the increasingly volatile politics of the EU itself and within some of its major constituent nations &ndash; France and Germany especially &ndash; which multiplies this uncertainty further. As a result some of the fundamental policies that underpin the UK economy are under threat, especially: trade policy, with the EU and other countries; migration policy with EU states; and foreign direct investment from within and outside the EU.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Uncertain politics makes for an uncertain economic outlook. Up until now the impact of the Brexit vote has been mixed: the first release of GDP since the referendum indicated only a marginal slip (post-referendum quarterly growth was 0.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, compared to 0.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent before); but the value of the pound has collapsed dramatically &ndash; the effective exchange rate (weighted for trade flows) has slipped to the lowest level on record (Hunter&nbsp;et al 2016). In this uncertain time, any forecast is to be treated with caution, but some of the major organisations that analyse the British economy have downgraded their forecasts for 2017 (see IMF 2016, OECD 2016). Moreover, the background economic conditions pre-Brexit were themselves far from healthy: economic growth has been low in the UK since the recession, while structural labour market issues and inequality persist.</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-3">Earlier this year, IPPR North published a report exploring these issues from the perspective of the north of England (Dickinson and Cox 2016). The report identified eight interrelated issues where the North is likely to have specific concerns on account of its distinctive economic mix. These concerns are specific to particular economic sectors that predominate in the North and where the region has particular economic strengths, such as advanced manufacturing, energy, health innovation and the digital economy. Related to each of these economic strengths are the following concerns:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">the North has a higher proportion of international trade with the EU than many other parts of the UK</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">sector-specific skills and labour market issues</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">engagement with pan-European innovation systems and access to particular streams of research funding</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-13">particular regulations and issues around public procurement, state aid and assisted areas</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">regional and subregional economic development funds.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">The impact of the EU on UK GDP is far larger than that of other countries. For example, it is around three times that of the US (3.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and four times that of the combined &lsquo;BRIC&rsquo; emerging economies (2.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) (Springford et al 2016). This is because EU &lsquo;value chains&rsquo; have strong multiplier effects throughout the economy, with manufacturing goods and service sector trade closely interrelated. Given that the EU-UK demand multiplier value is 2.4, it is estimated that a 1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent reduction in UK exports to the EU &ndash; equivalent to 0.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of UK GDP &ndash; leads to a reduction in UK GDP of 0.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; equal to our net EU budget contribution (ibid).</p>

<p class="body_para">These figures are, however, aggregated at the UK level. Critically, dependence on EU trade is far greater in the regions outside London. Academic research shows that most UK regions outside London are anything from 50 to 100&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent more dependent upon EU trade than London, and that they have become more dependent on EU trade since 2000, while London has become less dependent (McCann 2016). As a consequence, the impact of any reduction in EU trade will be significantly greater in the north of England and the Midlands than elsewhere. Ironically, it&nbsp;is those areas that voted in favour of Brexit where both local labour income&nbsp;and local productivity is likely to be most adversely affected.</p>

<p class="body_para">It is therefore essential that the North ensures that it has the tools it needs in order to both exploit the opportunities that Brexit offers, and mitigate the risks that it will pose.</p>

<p class="body_para">The fledgling and patchy development of combined authorities, metro mayors and devolution deals in the North means that the region is not well placed to formulate a coherent response to Brexit that will match those of the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, or that of the mayor of London or other well-established lobbying groups. Furthermore, it is quite impossible for central government to deal meaningfully with the demands of over 30 upper-tier local authorities, and 11&nbsp;local enterprise partnership areas, in the North one by one.</p>

<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Recommendation 1: A Northern Brexit Negotiating Committee should be established to determine the type of Brexit that best suits the North, to speak with one voice in the negotiations, and to build direct relationships with regions and nations within and beyond the EU in order to develop and enhance its particular trade interests.</strong></p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.2-place-based-industrial-strategy-and-inclusive-growth">1.2 Place-based industrial strategy and inclusive growth</p>

<p class="body_para">In part as a response to the implications of Brexit and the underlying sense of urgency for rebalancing the economy, the new government has set out its intention to develop and implement a &lsquo;place based&rsquo; industrial strategy to drive growth &lsquo;up and down the country&rsquo; (Clarke 2016, May 2016). The formation of a new department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is poised to intervene strategically in the economy, something which hasn&rsquo;t been done so overtly for many years. There is also a powerful economy and industrial strategy cabinet committee &ndash; chaired by the prime minister &ndash; geared towards this end. This approach will bring the UK into line with similar countries, such as Germany and France, who have a long history of being more interventionist in relation to regional economic development. Articulating her view on the government&rsquo;s new industrial strategy, the prime minister recently stated that:</p>

<p class="blockquote ParaOverride-14"><span class="CharOverride-2">&lsquo;</span>We will identify the sectors of the economy&hellip; that are of strategic importance to our economy, and do everything we can to encourage, develop and support them. And we will identify the places that have the potential to contribute to economic growth and become the homes to millions of new jobs. That means inspiring an economic and cultural revival in all of our great regional cities.<span class="CharOverride-2">&rsquo;</span></p>

<p class="blockquote_ref">May 2016</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-12">IPPR has already set out four clear objectives for a new national industrial strategy (Colebrook 2016). One of these objectives is the need to develop a strong spatial dimension to facilitate a more even spread of economic activity across the country. Building on this, it is crucial that the <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">geography</em> of industry is embedded in this new industrial strategy. Doing so should bring together five strands of policy:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-15"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Sectoral strategy.</strong> This focuses on enabling specific sectors to grow, for example by investing in specific technologies, or subsidising businesses directly, often without factoring in geographical considerations.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Regional strategy.</strong> This is concerned with the geography of economic growth, and is often simplified as a desire to &lsquo;rebalance the economy&rsquo;. This tends to focus non-sector specific or &lsquo;horizontal&rsquo; interventions at the regional level &ndash; such as transport investment, skills and innovation.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Smart specialisation.</strong> There is a further concept which sits at the juncture of these strategies: &lsquo;smart specialisation&rsquo;, which aims to understand and drive innovation. This concept originates within industrial theory, but more recently has been transposed onto regional economics (McCann and Ortega-Argil&eacute;s 2011).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution.</strong> Regional structures have now been replaced by far looser local enterprise partnerships across England, and far more focused combined authorities in some major cities. The lessons from Europe indicate that regional governments are very well placed to drive industrial strategy, and McCann (2016) concludes &ndash; from a comprehensive analysis of the UK economy &ndash; that institutional change and spatial rebalancing must go hand-in-hand.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Inclusive growth.</strong> For many years policymakers have made the mistake of overprioritising GDP growth as a policy objective. There has been some surprise that GDP growth hasn&rsquo;t improved living standards for many. This in turn has led to an academic and often abstract debate about how policy should go beyond GDP, or how economic growth can be made more &lsquo;inclusive&rsquo; (Stiglitz et al 2009, RSA 2016, Lupton et al 2016). It has been clear for some time that, alongside GDP (or GVA), policymakers should prioritise employment, wages, progression and the inclusion of disadvantaged groups.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">Building on these five strands of policy, this <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report argues that any place-based industrial strategy should rest upon three principles that relate to the &lsquo;place&rsquo; element of industrial strategy.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 1: Regional differentiation.</strong> There is a need for a more sophisticated understanding of what drives growth in different types of region (OECD 2012, NEFC 2012). The role of cities is vital, but the agglomeration hypothesis is overplayed &ndash; a UK city with double the population of another comparable UK city will only be 1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent more productive &ndash; far less than in many similar countries (Ahrend et al 2015). Policy should instead draw on modern understandings of regional economics that, while accounting for the importance of cities, prioritise the wider region in both their analysis and the policy prognosis that results (McCann 2016).</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">Many smaller towns and cities make a significant contribution both individually and through their interactions with the bigger cities. Furthermore, in the North important prime capabilities &ndash; advanced manufacturing and energy sectors for example &ndash; are largely based outside cities, though they often rely on them for their supply chain and labour pool (Cox and Longlands 2016, NIER 2016). In order to account for this, place-based industrial strategy must allow for sufficient regional differentiation in terms of the sectors it chooses to prioritise, the investments it chooses to make, and the tools and powers it chooses to devolve.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 2: Coordinated investment. </strong>Building on principle 1, interactions need to happen between businesses within prime sectors; and between them and their supply chains, enabling capabilities and underpinning assets &ndash; especially the universities (McCann and Ortega-Argil&eacute;s 2011, NIER 2016)<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">. </strong>Infrastructure &ndash; including transport, broadband and facilities (such as lab space) &ndash; can enable the ecosystem that businesses need to develop organically; R&amp;D investment generates overspills within places; and transport infrastructure can broaden the labour force that a diverse business cluster has access to. There needs to be a significant increase in public investment in infrastructure, research and development and other economic assets to match private sector investment and act as a catalyst for business innovation and smart specialisation. Such investment needs to be coordinated both in terms of a sectoral and geographical approach but also between public and private partners.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-7"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 3: Devolution. </strong>In order to achieve principles 1 and 2 most effectively, central government needs to devolve further powers and collaborate with regional and local government. Regional government in Europe has proven highly capable of implementing industrial strategy. In the UK &ndash; especially the North &ndash; local government is both well informed about local economic capabilities, and in many areas is developing the institutions to take on a much greater level of responsibility in this regard. To date, however, devolution deals have been too partial and piecemeal and there needs to be a more radical consideration of the potential for greater fiscal devolution and powers held at a more strategic &lsquo;mezzanine&rsquo; tier &ndash; such as the North.</p>

<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 2: IPPR North calls upon government to adopt a place-based approach to industrial strategy with the three core principles of regional differentiation, coordinated investment and devolution as its foundation.</strong></p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.3-north-first-northern-potential-as-an-exemplar-for-industrial-strategy-and-inclusive-growth">1.3 North first: northern potential as an exemplar for industrial strategy and inclusive growth</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The North could be an exemplar region for place-based industrial strategy and inclusive growth. There are significant foundations on which to build, and demonstrable benefit from taking such an approach.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There are a number of assets that &ndash; with the right investment &ndash; could enable the North to thrive.</strong> The northern powerhouse agenda may lack definition, but it does speak to the North&rsquo;s economic potential: it is home to 15 million people; it contributes &pound;304 billion to UK economic growth; and it ties together 5 major cities, 8 major ports and 29 universities (Cox and Raikes 2015).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-16"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There are institutions taking form which could take it forward</strong><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">.</strong> The northern powerhouse has started to take shape: Transport for the North is soon to gain statutory status, and in May 2017 new metro mayors will be elected across a wide swathe of the North.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The prime and enabling capabilities of the North are well recognised, and understood by local stakeholders.</strong> Crucially, the North has already set out the prime capabilities that such an industrial strategy can harness, and the enabling capabilities that can support these. Transport for the North recently undertook the Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review (NIER), in which it analysed the concentration of sectors and listed the assets within the North. From this, the NIER set out the North&rsquo;s prime capabilities: advanced manufacturing, health innovation, energy and digital; and its enabling capabilities: financial and professional services, higher education and logistics (NIER 2016).</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">The North is also well placed to deliver <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">inclusive</em> economic growth. The combined authorities &ndash; with or without mayors &ndash; are able to bring together public service reform and economic policy within a place in a new and crucial way: for example by commissioning the work and health programme in a way which aligns with demand-side activity (Raikes and Davies 2016). Some northern cities are already setting out their strategies for inclusive growth, and even aligning this with industrial strategy objectives: Greater Manchester is already seeking to use its skills powers to prioritise sectors which offer entry-level jobs to be taken up by those who are the focus of public service reform (GMCA et al 2014).</p>

<p class="body_para">However, any broad, place-based industrial strategy &ndash; let alone one focused on inclusive growth &ndash; will only succeed if it is founded upon strong and resilient local economies. The focus of this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report will therefore now shift to the importance of local economic resilience, followed by a series of resilience profiles assessing the economic strengths and weaknesses of the North&rsquo;s 11 local enterprise partnership areas.</p>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 1.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Elements of an industrial strategy for the North</p>

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</div></article><article id="understanding-economic-38-160-resilience" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">2.</span><span class="chapter-title">Understanding economic&#160;resilience</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">The ability to adapt to any economic turbulence ahead will vary from area to area. Chapter 2 introduces the concept of economic resilience: it first sets out how this concept can be defined, before looking at different ways in which it can be measured, and then setting out our methodology for this project.</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.1-defining-resilience">2.1 Defining resilience</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">Defining resilience is a complex but important task. For obvious reasons, the subject has received much attention &ndash; the financial crash clearly had an impact on policymakers and academics. However, for perhaps less obvious reasons, the field has been of increasing prominence since the turn of the century &ndash; driven largely by the long-term decline of industry in developed countries (Christopherson et al 2010).</p>

<p class="body_para">For many, the concept remains somewhat &lsquo;fuzzy&rsquo; (ibid, Pendall et al 2009). Many definitions require some kind of &lsquo;normal&rsquo; to be defined, so that an economy&rsquo;s ability to remain in this state can be derived: resisting or absorbing a shock in employment or output; recovering quickly to such a shock; or maintaining core system performance (Martin et al 2013).</p>

<p class="body_para">Resilience clearly isn&rsquo;t simply a matter of how sharply an area or industry contracts or recovers. While useful context, these definitions fail to account for fundamental transformation as a response either to shock, or to long-term structural changes (Christopherson et al 2010). In response some have expanded the scope of resilience to be more conceptual and so incorporate diversity, modularity, social capital, innovation, overlap, tight feedback loops and ecosystem services; pushed a little further, resilience is seen by some as &lsquo;dynamic adaptation&rsquo; (Lewis and Conaty 2012, Greenham et al 2013).</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.2-measuring-resilience">2.2 Measuring resilience</p>

<p class="body_para">The focus of this report is on how well prepared areas are for the years of uncertainty ahead. While the concept of resilience is itself the subject of debate, there is some consensus that a number of factors will help an economy to survive and adapt to changes. Martin and Sunley (2014) set out a framework that we will develop, illustrated in figure 2.1.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Others have given more tangible form to this framework, and some have sought to aggregate a number of measures into a single index. The OECD makes use of a number of social and environmental indicators to inform its work on city resilience &ndash; in the economy domain, it is diversity, dynamism, innovation and employment and skills which are the priority (Saya 2016). Local and regional governments in the UK have used a range of common indicators as proxies for these: Advantage West Midlands used workforce skills, employment rates and business turnover (AWM 2010); Ekosgen used a similar set of indicators when they analysed the resilience of Sheffield city-region (Ekosgen 2009). Some organisations have sought to incorporate environmental and social considerations into their measurements (Greenham et al 2013) &ndash; however, given the focus of this report on post-Brexit economic resilience, we do not take these into our own analysis.</p>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-1">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 2.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Resilience can be determined by the interaction of four economic&nbsp;subsystems<br />
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Determinants of regional economic resilience</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Martin and Sunley 2014</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.3-our-methodology">2.3 Our methodology</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">We draw on the above research, but adapt it to the current situation: that is, with the North and the nation on the brink of Brexit. In the case studies in chapters 4&ndash;6 we have attempted to summarise each of the 11 northern LEP areas from a resilience perspective, using both data analysis and qualitative judgement where appropriate. The picture will inevitably be incomplete, and not all of the above determinants of resilience can be measured: some factors are determined nationally, and are therefore irrelevant for local comparisons (national economic policies for example); others are not measured locally (such as debt structure and financial strength) even though it would be helpful if they were. Some indicators require proxies (we used business registration rate as a measure of entrepreneurship); and others are qualitative judgements made on the best evidence available (those related to governance especially). It is important to note that some of these indicators could be interpreted differently: for example, having a large output from tradables is often seen as strength, but here we regard it with more caution because trade is under threat from Brexit.</p>

<p class="body_para">Bearing in mind these different considerations we have developed the following 20 indicators that relate to economic resilience:</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Sector diversity &ndash; measured in absolute terms by the Herfindahl-Hirschman index</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">knowledge-intensive business services employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">high-tech employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">output from tradable goods</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">location quotients</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">shift share analysis.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Qualification level of working-age residents</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">local graduate retention</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">commuting rates</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">job density</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">unemployment rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">employment rate.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Business registration rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">business three-year survival rate</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">self-employment</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">high-growth SMEs</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">SME investment in R&amp;D.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Assessment of progress on devolution</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">local spending on planning and development per capita</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">growth deal per capita.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Using these indicators we have built up a &lsquo;resilience profile&rsquo; for each of the 11 local enterprise partnership areas across the North. However, each of these profiles begins by setting the LEP in an international context. Even without Brexit it would be vital to compare northern subregions with those in Europe &ndash; it is often these areas with which they are competing for investment and trade, rather than just neighbouring regions in the UK. We have done this by taking a typology developed by Aumayr (2007), and adapting this to northern LEP geographies using a methodology developed by de&nbsp;Beer&nbsp;et al (2014).</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-7">The detail of this typology is included in the annex of this report but in broad terms the 11 northern LEPs are categorised by:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">their metropolitan status</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">whether they are rural or urban</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">whether they are central or peripheral</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the proportion of employment in industry</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the relative productivity of their industry</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the relative productivity of their services sector</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">the prevalence of tourism</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">the prevalence of agrarian activities.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Based on this, the North&rsquo;s subregions fall into three broad categories.</p>

<ol>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Metropolitan areas: </strong><strong class="medium CharOverride-3">this includes Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, and Sheffield city-region, which compare with a range of European cities, including major capitals such as Brussels Capital Region, and Ile de France</strong></li>
	<li class="number_list_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Urban areas: </strong><strong class="medium CharOverride-3">this includes Cheshire and Warrington, Tees Valley, Liverpool city-region and North Eastern and Lancashire &ndash; some of which are conventionally regarded as quite rural, but have an economy concentrated in their small cities, and are significantly less rural than many European areas. These compare to areas such as Nord Pas de Calais and Darmstadt.</strong></li>
	<li class="number_list_1_last ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Rural areas</strong>: this includes Cumbria, York, North Yorkshire and East Riding, and the Humber. These compare to areas like Basilicata, La Rioja and Munster.</li>
</ol>
</div>
</div></article><article id="analysis" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">3.</span><span class="chapter-title">Analysis</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="chapter_subhead ParaOverride-19">local economic resilience across the north of England</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="3.1-findings">3.1 Findings</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-2">The North&rsquo;s resilience is as varied as its geography. The indicators are summarised in figures 3.1 to 3.4, and taken collectively present a picture &ndash; albeit partial &ndash; of the relative resilience of northern LEPs. However, measuring resilience is not an exact science &ndash; nor is it purely a quantitative task, requiring qualitative assessment and judgement. Based on this analysis we grouped the North&rsquo;s LEPs into the following three categories.</p>

<ol>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resilient or prosperous:</strong> areas that are relatively well prepared, with a diverse economy and strong labour market &ndash; Cheshire and Warrington, and York North Yorkshire and East Riding fall into this category. These will require an approach that boosts innovation in their thriving sectors to world-class status, and transport connectivity that enables neighbouring regions to benefit from their&nbsp;growth.</li>
	<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dynamic but vulnerable:</strong> Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Lancashire, North Eastern and Liverpool city-region have a diverse or diversifying economic base, but have some structural flaws, especially compared to similar city-regions in the EU &ndash; primarily in their labour market, but also in their connectivity with one another. These will require an approach that accelerates this transformation by connecting these major cities with one another so that innovation spillovers are maximised and further focus on education and skills.</li>
	<li class="number_list_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dependent or vulnerable:</strong> the Humber, Tees Valley, Sheffield city-region and Cumbria are all areas that have not yet diversified, are reliant on a single industry or small group of industries, and still have significant structural issues to overcome. These urgently need support to avoid the risk of yet further decline, and in many cases there is mutual benefit in connecting these areas to their more prosperous neighbours.</li>
</ol>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Business base</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</figure>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-2">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Labour force</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</figure>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-3">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-7">Figure 3.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Entrepreneurialism</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-20">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</figure>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-4">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 3.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Governance</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-21">Sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1" id="3.2-priorities">3.2 Priorities</p>

<p class="body_para">The government&rsquo;s place-based industrial strategy must build resilient local economies across the North. It cannot just subsidise large employers already here to persuade them to stay, it must aim to diversify the North&rsquo;s economy, and resolve some of the fundamental challenges that persist &ndash; in&nbsp;the supply of skills, transport connectivity, and the lack of innovation.</p>

<p class="body_para">In order to take forward this approach, the third main recommendation for this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report is driven from the bottom-up.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Recommendation 3: The North&rsquo;s LEPs, working closely with relevant local and combined authorities, should each conduct a resilience audit that sets out in detail the threats to their economy in the wake of Brexit. This audit should then be used to inform a strategic response, and a set of asks from the government that are tailored to acting on this strategy as part of a new round of devolution deals with each LEP area that mesh LEP priorities with those of the industrial strategy being developed by central government.</strong></p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">The remainder of this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report assesses each of the LEPs in turn. First we turn to the core cities of the North: Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Liverpool city-region, the North East and Sheffield. We then analyse the (often polycentric) urban areas that are often adjacent to these core cities: Cheshire and Warrington, Tees Valley and Lancashire. Finally, we assess the more rural and peripheral areas of the North: Cumbria, the Humber and York, and North Yorkshire and East Riding.</p>
</div>
</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-metropolitan-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">4.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: metropolitan areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-1">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 4.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Metropolitan, non-industrial areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1" id="4.1-greater-manchester">4.1 Greater Manchester</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Greater Manchester is the second largest metropolitan hub in the North. Its scale is significant: it has a population of 2.8 million a GVA of &pound;56&nbsp;billion (larger than that of Wales).<span class="CharOverride-4"><span id="footnote-002-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-002">1</a></span></span> The city&rsquo;s horizons have always reached beyond UK borders, but compared to similar regions in Europe it is only middle ranking: it has a population the size of Lisbon&rsquo;s; an economy the size of Prague&rsquo;s; productivity levels that compare to Berlin; and a rate of unemployment similar to Rotterdam and Warsaw. It is highly dynamic and able to adapt, but its labour force leaves it more vulnerable than it should be to any future difficulties.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Greater Manchester has a diverse and modern economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Diversity is high, with thriving modern and trading sectors.</strong> It has the second-lowest specialisation index of northern LEPs, its high-tech sector is the largest of the core cities (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and knowledge-intensive business services employment is second highest only to Cheshire and Warrington in the North (at 14.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) &ndash; both these sectors are growing faster than wider trends; however, tradable sectors account for a low 29.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of output.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-8">Greater Manchester: The economy is diverse with disproportionate growth in both knowledge-intensive business services and high-tech manufacturing<br />
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below ParaOverride-23">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There is a large pool of talent to draw on, but low resident qualifications mean many are excluded.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-15"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a large labour pool, but qualification rates are low.</strong> Retention of residents who have graduated is high (81.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 15,000 more graduates move in each year than leave &ndash; and yet only a third (33.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) of residents have degree-level qualifications,<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-001-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-001">2</a></span></span> and 10.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Job creation fails to keep up with population growth</strong>. Despite its vibrant economic base, there are only 71.5 jobs for every 100 working-age residents; although 22,000 more people commute into the city than leave for work and 89.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work there.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-24"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is low</strong>. The unemployment rate is quite high, at 6.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although the proportion of JSA claimants claiming for more than six months is slightly below average, at 45&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; and the employment rate is below average, at 70.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy is dynamic and innovative.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is high rate of businesses churning in the economy</strong>. Business registration was a healthy 3.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent a year, but only 57.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent survived three years, and self-employment is below average (13&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to reach high growth rates</strong>. 6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups managed to achieve a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years (among the highest of English LEP areas), although SME investment in R&amp;D was relatively low (15&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region is an exemplar for devolution and governance in the UK.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">City-region institutions are strong, well established and cohesive.</strong> Decades of city-wide collaboration crystallised with the country&rsquo;s first combined authority in 2011 and a mayor will be elected in 2017.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The results of good governance are being recognised.</strong> Not only did the city-region secure &pound;533 million (&pound;193 per capita), but it is exercising some control over &pound;6 billion of health and social care spending; planning and development spending is also high, at &pound;24&nbsp;per capita.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="4.2-leeds-city-region">4.2 Leeds city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Leeds city-region sits at the core of the northern powerhouse. With 3&nbsp;million people and &pound;63 billion economic output, it is the largest LEP area outside London. Like many UK cities, it deindustrialised long ago, however, unlike these cities it suffers from low productivity &ndash; behind Greater Manchester and Sheffield who share its service-oriented economy, and also behind Birmingham and Glasgow city-regions. Among similar city-regions it has more in common with Athens than with other mid-ranking continental cities such as Prague or Vienna. It is one of the dynamic but vulnerable parts of the North: with a diverse economy, but a labour force that needs to adapt.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has a diverse and modern metropolitan economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economy is diverse and service-oriented.</strong> It has the most diverse economy in the North, with a relatively low share of public sector employment (18.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), it has a larger manufacturing base than other northern cities (10.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and high-tech employment is 5.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (although falling disproportionately), and knowledge intensive business services employment is high compared to northern areas &ndash; below the national concentration (13.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but catching up. Despite a small advanced manufacturing sector, the area has an above average share of GVA from tradables (32&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), due to its service sector.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Leeds city-region: There are a range of specialisms in this diverse economy, and modern sectors are growing<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
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<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Leeds city-region has a more self-contained labour market.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-25"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Despite its strong higher education sector, the skills of the overall workforce are low.</strong> Residents who graduate tend not to stay in Leeds as much as in other major cities (74.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and only a relatively small number of students flow in (1,300); only 31.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess degree-level qualifications and 9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The labour market is self-contained.</strong> Job density is about average at 75.7 jobs for every 100 residents, but the LEP covers a large area containing many towns and cities &ndash; as a result 93.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work within the LEP area, and only marginally more (860) come in than leave.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">However, economic inclusion is average.</strong> Unemployment is slightly higher than average (5.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the employment rate is slightly poorer than nationally (72.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the long-term JSA claimant proportion is slightly lower (44.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">New businesses tend to be healthy and dynamic.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The area appears to be quite entrepreneurial</strong>. Self-employment is 13.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, business registration is 3.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and 60.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of businesses survive their first three years (these compare very well with other northern city-regions).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to be quite innovative and many reach high turnover rates</strong>. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invest in R&amp;D, while 6.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent reach &pound;1 million turnover in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-4">Leeds city-region&rsquo;s LEP has been successful in drawing down money from central government, but its lack of governance reform has held back devolution.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-13"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Progress on devolution has been held back over geography and forms of governance.</strong> There is a combined authority, but unlike Greater Manchester its geography doesn&rsquo;t match with that of the LEP or the historic West Yorkshire county. There has been a devolution deal but devolution has so far been curtailed as local stakeholders fail to agree on whether to have a mayor or the geography over which they might exercise new powers.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-26"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">But this hasn&rsquo;t held it back from receiving government funding.</strong> The LEP has been highly successful in attracting funds from central government, securing &pound;628 million (&pound;207&nbsp;per resident) &ndash; the most generous of any growth deal &ndash; but it is middle ranking for spending on planning and development per capita, at &pound;18 per resident.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="4.3-sheffield-city-region">4.3 Sheffield city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">Sheffield city-region&rsquo;s economy falls between two stools: it has both the service-intensive economy of the major metropolitan areas and the high-tech economy of the urban areas but it fails to specialise in either of these. It has higher GVA per capita than neighbouring Leeds CR, but in other respects has more in common with the urban areas that are still struggling to transition from post-industrial to modern, prosperous regions. Its economy is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The business base lacks diversity and is still in transition from its industrial past.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is lacking in diversity or modern sectors</strong>. Sector diversity is lower than the other major cities and it retains a relatively large proportion of employment in manufacturing, which makes up 11.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment, and although only 5.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment is in high-tech this is increasing ahead of wider trends; knowledge-intensive business services employment is relatively low (9.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and in relative decline, while the public sector makes up a high 21.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent. The city does not export very much: at 29.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent its tradable share of output is the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 4.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Sheffield city-region: Employment isn&rsquo;t diverse, nor is it diversifying quickly<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
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<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city has major labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Qualification levels are poor &ndash; though not as bad as the North&rsquo;s other metropolitan areas.</strong> Only a small proportion are degree-level qualified (28.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), while 9.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent hold no qualifications at all; graduate retention is poor (70.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 15,000 more graduates leave each year than move in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Part of the problem is lack of jobs.</strong> There are only 69.6 jobs per 100 residents, only 86.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the city-region (second lowest of the North&rsquo;s major cities), and 14,800 more people leave than come into the region to work.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">And too many don&rsquo;t work at all.</strong> Unemployment remains relatively high at 6.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, as does the proportion of long-term JSA claimants (47.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and the employment rate is low at 71.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Entrepreneurialism is about average, but a fair number of firms thrive.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high rate of startups but a relatively high number fail</strong>. New business registration is a relatively high 3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but the three-year survival rate is a relatively low 59.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; the area has below average self-employment (12.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-5">Innovation appears quite high and a good proportion do very well</strong><span class="CharOverride-5">. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of SMEs invested in R&amp;D, and a relatively high proportion of startups reached &pound;1 million turnover in these three years &ndash; 7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (higher than Greater Manchester or Leeds city-region). </span></li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is well established though must keep pace with other northern cities.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance is relatively strong</strong>. The area has established a combined authority, and will elect a mayor in 2017, but there are challenges concerning its overlap with the D2N2 local enterprise partnership<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-000-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-000">3</a></span></span> &ndash; stretching across into the East Midlands region &ndash; and its devolution deal is less expansive than elsewhere.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">A growth deal will help the city-region invest.</strong> The LEP was able to secure &pound;177 per capita in its recent growth deal &ndash; the third-highest funding per capita in the North &ndash; and at &pound;18 per capita, it is middle ranking in its spend on planning and development.</li>
</ul>

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<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-002-backlink" id="footnote-002">1</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-001-backlink" id="footnote-001">2</a> All references to &lsquo;degree-level qualifications&rsquo; mean NVQ level 4 or above.</p>
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<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-4.xhtml#footnote-000-backlink" id="footnote-000">3</a> Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire LEP.</p>
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</div>
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</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-urban-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">5.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: urban areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 5.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-4">Urban non-industrial areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1" id="5.1-liverpool-city-region">5.1 Liverpool city-region</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Liverpool city-region has a deindustrialised economy, with low levels of employment in industrial activities, and productivity rate in the service sector that&rsquo;s relatively high.<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-003-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-5.xhtml#footnote-003">4</a></span></span> For this reason it reflects a cluster of highly tertiarised urban centres including four Dutch regions as well as some prosperous shires in the south of England but, despite some economic and geographical similarities, Liverpool city-region lacks their prosperity &ndash; in GVA per capita terms it ranks last of these &ndash; and within the North it sits alongside areas such as Tees Valley and the North East.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Niche specialisms have broken through in an otherwise lagging economy.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The city-region lacks sector diversity and depends on the public sector.</strong> It has the lowest diversity of the northern cities, with high public sector employment (22.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and low employment in manufacturing (7.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and high-tech (5.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and knowledge-intensive business services (10.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). Compared to wider trends, high-tech employment is falling but, encouragingly, knowledge-intensive business services employment is rising at a faster rate.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for 29.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional production &ndash; below UK and Northern average, reflecting both its deindustrialisation and a service sector that is on the rise.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-2">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Liverpool city-region: There is little specialism and few sectors are high growth, although there are signs of increasing modernisation<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has significant labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Despite strong universities, resident qualification levels are poor</strong>. Retention of resident graduates is very high (83.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the city fails to attract enough from elsewhere, meaning 6,700 more leave than come in; only 29.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents hold the equivalent of a degree and 11.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents have no qualifications at all.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There simply aren&rsquo;t enough jobs to provide work for residents or attract people from elsewhere</strong>. Despite being a city, there are only 65.6 jobs for every 100 residents &ndash; the lowest job density in the North &ndash; and only 84&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area, with 100,000 residents leaving the area to work, and only 69,000 commuting in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">A large proportion of residents are excluded from the labour market.</strong> Unemployment is high, at 6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but long-term unemployment is a high 52.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and the employment rate is the lowest in the North, at 67.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There is no lack of entrepreneurial spirit, but few businesses survive or grow quickly.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high rate of business registration but a significant proportion fail.</strong> The business startup rate is a healthy 3.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (as high as 11&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent in 2015), but self-employment is low (11.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the three-year survival rate was 58.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; lower than most other northern city-regions.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses tend to be highly innovative, but in general don&rsquo;t reach high rates of turnover</strong>. SME R&amp;D activity was the highest in the North (19&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but only 6.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups achieved a turnover of &pound;1 million after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is stronger than in many areas, and the area has been quite successful at winning funds from the government.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution is well under way.</strong> The city-region has a cohesive policy geography: the LEP and combined authority are well aligned with historic Merseyside boundaries; its devolution deal secured a range of powers; and a mayor will be elected in 2017.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Funding has been won &ndash; but not as much as in other northern cities</strong>. Liverpool city-region secured &pound;264 million in government funding through its growth deal (&pound;173 per resident) &ndash; in absolute and relative terms this is well above the LEP average but below Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield city-region &ndash; and at &pound;13 per capita, spending on planning and development is the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.2-north-eastern">5.2 North Eastern</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">The North Eastern LEP area has undergone major changes to its business base but continues to lag behind other parts of the north on a range of economic indicators &ndash; although recent trends are more encouraging. The region has much in common with &lsquo;post-industrial success stories&rsquo; &ndash; predominantly in the UK (Lancashire, Cheshire and Warrington, and Tees Valley in the North) and in the Benelux region. These tend to have an industrial sector that is highly productive relative to the rest of the economy, but is relatively low in employment. Compared to these areas, though, the North Eastern LEP area performs below average in terms of GDP per capita. It is a dynamic but vulnerable area that has historically suffered because of lower skills in its labour force.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Low sector diversity risks hindering prosperity.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area&rsquo;s economy isn&rsquo;t particularly diverse and growth is relatively slow in modern sectors. </strong>It is less diverse than LEP areas which include a core city, with a relatively high proportion of employment in the public sector (21.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and it has a high proportion of manufacturing (11.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and high-tech (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). However, its knowledge-intensive business services are underrepresented (10.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and increasing in employment far slower than nationally.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for 31.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output &ndash; broadly in line with UK figures.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-3">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">North Eastern: Diversity is low and modern sectors are falling behind<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The city-region has significant labour market challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Residents&rsquo; qualification levels are low</strong>. A high proportion of residents who graduate stay in the city (79.9 per cent) than leave each year; however, the proportion of degree-level qualified residents is 30.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, while 10.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent hold no qualifications at all. However, these figures relate to the whole of the North East population, and the region&rsquo;s younger residents are relatively well qualified: qualification rates in Newcastle compare very favourably to other core cities, and&nbsp;there is a particularly high rate of vocational qualification in the LEP area.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">There aren&rsquo;t enough jobs to go round</strong>. Job density is low (69.2 per 100 residents), and while a high proportion of residents work in the area (94.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent): more than 49,000 residents commute outward &ndash;compared to 34,000 inward commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-29"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is still has some distance to travel. </strong>Despite impressive jobs growth in recent years the employment rate is low (69.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and there are high rates of unemployment (7.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), although the long-term JSA claimant proportion is about average (45.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-11">Business could be more dynamic, but a large number of startups are very successful.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Entrepreneurship is below average.</strong> Self-employment was among the lowest in the North (10.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and business registration and survival were just below average (2.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and 59&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent respectively.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Innovation is low but growth rates are high.</strong> SME investment in R&amp;D was 16&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but 7.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reached &pound;1 million turnover in three years &ndash; the highest rate in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Despite previous successes, governance is running into difficulties.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution showed initial progress but has recently encountered setbacks.</strong> The North East Combined Authority (NECA) aligned with the LEP and was set for a mayor &ndash; however, after internal differences devolution is now on hold and there are plans afoot for three of these local authorities to go it alone &ndash; Newcastle, Northumberland and North Tyneside.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">Its ability to spend on the local economy is more limited than in other northern cities. <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP has been relatively successful in securing funding from government. It secured the fifth-largest growth deal funding in the country (&pound;330 million), but at &pound;169 per resident this amounts to less than other major northern cities; spend on planning and development is low, at &pound;15 per capita.</strong></li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.3-cheshire-and-warrington">5.3 Cheshire and Warrington</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">Cheshire and Warrington is the most productive economy in the North and compares well with similar regions in Europe. Its GVA per capita is far higher than most similar areas, and of these it comes third to Noord-Brabant and Antwerp in the whole EU. It is a polycentric economy, revolving around a number of thriving towns and the city of Chester. Its location &ndash; between Greater Manchester (with its airport) and Liverpool city-region (with its port), and on the border with Wales &ndash; means it is strategically placed to engage in the international value chain. It is a resilient and prosperous area.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A diverse business base underpins its economic resilience.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a high degree of diversity and dynamism</strong>. It has the third-lowest specialisation index in the North, a large share of employment in high-tech (9.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; but in relative decline), knowledge-intensive business services (15.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; and rising ahead of broader trends) and low employment in the public sector (14.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and manufacturing (8.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable goods account for 41.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output &ndash; the highest figure in the North and second highest in England but could leave it vulnerable to turbulence ahead.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-4">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Cheshire and Warrington: Employment is diverse and growing strongly, with specialisms across several modern sectors<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A skilled labour force lies behind these cutting-edge industries and knowledge-intensive businesses.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Residents are highly qualified, but many new graduates tend to leave.</strong> 39.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent are degree-level qualified, but there is an annual net flow of graduates out of the area of 12,000.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Its labour market is an excellent provider of jobs.</strong> It has the highest job density in the North (85.6 jobs for every 100 working-age residents) and while a low proportion of residents work within the area (74.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) it provides employment for almost as many people from outside the area as Greater Manchester does (138,000).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is high.</strong> Unemployment is a low 3.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, relatively few JSA claimants have been claiming long-term (41.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and the employment rate is a high 75.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Its economy is dynamic &ndash; especially for a non-metropolitan area.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Startup and survival rates are higher than similar areas.</strong> Self-employment is quite high (15.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and it has a healthy business registration rate of 3.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent a year and businesses tend to survive longer than in similar areas &ndash; 63.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of new businesses survive three years.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses do tend to be innovative, but don&rsquo;t tend to reach high growth rates &ndash; in line with similar areas</strong>. A high proportion of SMEs invested in R&amp;D (18&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but only 6.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups had a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance is lagging behind other parts of the North, although the region has been successful in attracting growth deal funding.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-27"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance isn&rsquo;t as advanced as other areas.</strong> Unlike other parts of the North, there is no combined authority or potential for a mayor&ndash; largely as a result of the area sitting between two cities but not being one.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-31"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area has been successful in attracting growth deal funding</strong>. In the latest growth deal, the area secured &pound;172 per resident &ndash; the fourth-highest figure among LEPs without extensive devolved powers &ndash; but per capita spending on planning and development is the lowest in the North (&pound;17) and could undermine future growth potential.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.4-tees-valley">5.4 Tees Valley</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">Tees Valley is in the middle of a challenging transition. Like Cheshire and Warrington, and Lancashire, it is a post-industrial urban area, but unlike these areas it still has further distance to travel. It has lower productivity compared to its peers in the North (Cheshire and Warrington and Cumbria) and Europe(places such as Liege and Leipzig). Like these areas it has a high proportion of employment in industry; however, this industry has lower levels of productivity and is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-5">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.5</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Tees Valley: The public sector dominates and is growing disproportionately, but so are the high-tech and knowledge-intensive business services sectors<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="body_para_into_list">This sector-mix lacks diversity, although this is changing.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is the least diverse economy in the North, but high-tech is a particular strength</strong>. It has the highest specialisation index in the North, with high public sector employment (22.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and low employment in knowledge-intensive business services (11.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent). However, while manufacturing employment isn&rsquo;t particularly high (9.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), a very high share of employment is in high-tech (9.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and both high-tech and knowledge-intensive business services are growing ahead of wider trends. Tradables make up one-third of the economy (32.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">There are deep-seated problems in the labour market.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Qualification levels are low.</strong> Residents&rsquo; qualification levels are low, with 30.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent degree-level qualified and 10.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the working-age population having no qualifications. The relatively small number of people who graduate in the region tend to leave &ndash; there is a retention rate of 77.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and (a net outflow of 12,500).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The area fails to provide jobs for residents.</strong> There are only 66.9&nbsp;jobs per 100 working age residents, 86.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area (middle-ranking amongst northern LEPs) and 3,000 more leave to work than commute.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Many are excluded from the economy.</strong> The employment rate is a low 69&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and unemployment is a high 7.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although the proportion claiming JSA for six months is below average (43.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The business base is surprisingly dynamic.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is a strong entrepreneurial economy</strong>. Self-employment is the lowest in the North (10.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but the business registration rate was highest in the North &ndash; at 4.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent this was second only to London in England &ndash; and the three-year survival rate was 61&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent (better than average).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">However, these don&rsquo;t tend to be high growth or innovative firms</strong>. 17&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D, but only 5.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups make it to the &pound;1 million turnover mark.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Good governance hasn&rsquo;t yet been rewarded with funding.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Tees Valley has stronger governance than its neighbours, but is behind the North&rsquo;s major cities.</strong> The area has a combined authority, and will elect a mayor in 2017. However, its devolution deal lacks the skills and public service reform elements seen in some other deals.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">And direct funding hasn&rsquo;t been forthcoming from government.</strong> The LEP only secured &pound;156 per capita &ndash; this is less than most northern LEPs &ndash; however, spend on planning and development is quite high, at &pound;23 per resident.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="5.5-lancashire">5.5 Lancashire</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-8">Lancashire&rsquo;s impressive manufacturing reinvention has yet to pull the whole region out of long-term decline, but it is making progress. Its location and its connectivity are crucial assets &ndash; it is strategically positioned adjacent to both Greater Manchester and Liverpool city-regions. This has historically underpinned its manufacturing tradition, and has retained a relatively strong industrial base, but this is now a high productivity, not high employment, sector. In this, it is similar to post-industrial urban areas, found predominantly in the UK and in the Benelux region. However, compared to these, Lancashire fares worse than average for GDP per capita (due to poor service sector productivity). It is one of the most dynamic but vulnerable parts of the North.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The area lacks sector diversity but shows the beginnings of progress.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The economy isn&rsquo;t very diverse, but some of the sectors that dominate are modern. </strong>It is middle ranking within the North for economic diversification, due to both the dominance of manufacturing (20.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and high-tech makes up a relatively large share of employment (8.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but it also has a large share of employment in low-value service activities &ndash; knowledge-intensive business services account for only 9.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment, although this is growing disproportionately, as high-tech employment falls.<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable goods account for 32.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional economy.</li>
</ul>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-6">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 5.6</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Lancashire: Employment in the larger sectors isn&rsquo;t growing, but knowledge-intensive business services are on the increase<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
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<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Resident qualifications are poor, but the labour market functions well by connecting with its neighbouring cities.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Lancashire&rsquo;s skills base threatens to undermine progress</strong>. Only 30.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents have degree-level qualifications, and 10&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualification at all. Residents who graduate do tend to stay in the area (80.5 per cent doing so) with a net inflow of&nbsp;4,900.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Job creation isn&rsquo;t high enough to provide jobs for all residents</strong>. There are 75.5 jobs for every 100 working-age residents, and while 87.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents work in the area, there&rsquo;s a net outflow of 12,000 commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">These linkages appear to be working well for residents.</strong> Unemployment is below the national rate, at 4.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, although a higher than average share has been claiming JSA longer than six months (46.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), while the employment rate is 74.2 &ndash; higher than nationally.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Businesses don&rsquo;t tend to be very dynamic or entrepreneurial.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The business base isn&rsquo;t particularly dynamic</strong>. There is a low rate of business registration (1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but quite a high rate of three-year survival (58.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Businesses invest in R&amp;D but not many reach high growth rates</strong>. R&amp;D investment is high among SMEs (18&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) but only 6.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reach a &pound;1 million turnover in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-4">There is historic collaboration across the area, but devolution hasn&rsquo;t yet taken off.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-25"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP benefits somewhat from its rough alignment with an upper-tier authority.</strong> There are some other shared-service arrangements involving generally two or three local authorities, but there is no combined authority or devolution deal proposed.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-10"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">This may have held back government funding to an extent</strong>. Lancashire LEP secured &pound;251 million in government funding through its growth deal (&pound;170 per resident) &ndash; higher than average and the fifth-highest among LEPs without combined authorities &ndash; but at &pound;13 per resident, spending per capita on planning and development is one of the lowest in the North.</li>
</ul>

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<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-5.xhtml#footnote-003-backlink" id="footnote-003">4</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
</div>
</div>
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</div></article><article id="resilience-profiles-rural-areas" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">6.</span><span class="chapter-title">Resilience profiles: rural areas</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
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<p class="figure_header_rule_above ParaOverride-22">Figure 6.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead ParaOverride-5">Non-urban areas in the north of England compared to similar areas in the EU</p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: authors&rsquo; typology based on Aumayr 2007, adapted to LEPs with a methodology based on de Beer et al 2014. See annex for methodology and names of comparator regions.</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.1-cumbria">6.1 Cumbria</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">The Cumbrian economy combines the rural with the industrial.<span class="CharOverride-4"><span id="footnote-005-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-005">5</a></span></span> Its large territory belies a small economy, but this economy has pockets of highly productive industrial employment in what is otherwise a sparse and rural area. It is most similar to north-eastern Scotland within the UK, and to parts of rural Spain and Scandinavia in Europe. However, it is among the less prosperous of these areas: GVA per capita is below their average,<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-004-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-004">6</a></span></span> and it ranks 13th of 17 regions that fit this typology. Cumbria&rsquo;s role is nonetheless vital: its prime sectors &ndash; nuclear and defence &ndash; are of strategic national importance, while the Lake District is a natural asset which helps to underpin the North&rsquo;s attractiveness (NIER 2016). Its economy is, however, more vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy is not diverse, and modern sectors are lacking.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It relies on public sector employment and low-productivity manufacturing.</strong> It has a relatively high specialisation index, and a high proportion of employment in the public sector (23.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and manufacturing (16.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but low employment in both high-tech (4.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradable sectors account for a healthy 36.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the regional output, but this leaves the area quite vulnerable to any trade challenges in the years ahead.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.2</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Cumbria: Employment is strong and growing in manufacturing, but it lacks diversity<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>and modern sectors are falling behind<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The labour force is relatively self-sufficient and medium skilled.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Residents tend to be medium- to low-skilled.</strong> There are relatively fewer workers with degree-level qualifications (31&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), but also fewer with no qualifications at all (6.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent); retaining residents who have graduated is a major problem &ndash; there is a net outflow of 22,000 new graduates a year and 72.8 per cent of residents who graduate stay in the area.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">It is quite self-sufficient</strong> <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">and provides jobs for residents elsewhere.</strong> 95.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents in employment work in the region and there is a net inflow of 17,000 people to work, and a healthy 85.5 jobs per 100 working-age residents.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Economic inclusion is above average.</strong> The unemployment rate is a relatively low 4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and employment is a relatively high 76.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent; however, a large proportion of JSA claimants have been claiming longer than six months (57.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-20">The economy lacks entrepreneurialism, but most businesses that start survive.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Business registration is low but survival is high</strong>. The business registration rate was only 1.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, but 66.6 per cent of firms survived three years (the highest figure in the UK), and self-employment is also high, at 16&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-29"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Investment in R&amp;D is very low, and few of these firms reach high turnover quickly. </strong>Cumbrian SMEs don&rsquo;t tend to invest in R&amp;D (12&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; joint lowest in the North) and their startups are unlikely to have a turnover of over &pound;1 million after three years (only 2.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Devolution hasn&rsquo;t yet taken hold in Cumbria.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There is no combined authority yet.</strong> Cumbria has so far failed to establish a combined authority or sign a major devolution deal with government, though being a two-tier county this is perhaps more understandable and doesn&rsquo;t necessarily imply poor governance &ndash; discussions are ongoing.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-30"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The LEP failed to win much growth deal funding.</strong> The local enterprise partnership managed to secure only &pound;47.7 million (&pound;96 per capita) &ndash; this is the lowest level of funding received in England both in absolute and in relative terms &ndash; and little is spent on planning and development (only &pound;18 per capita).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.2-humber">6.2 Humber</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para">The Humber&rsquo;s once-prosperous economy is still adapting to globalisation. The region was once a powerhouse of industries that are now in decline: whether large-scale heavy industry and production of textiles, or fishing and agriculture. The Humber is one of many regions with such a history and composition &ndash; areas like the non-urban industrial heartlands such as the German L&auml;nder of Saxony and Bavaria &ndash; but even compared to these its GVA per capita is poor. Its economy is vulnerable to the turbulence to come.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The Humber relies on a handful of sectors, but its economy is positioned to trade strongly.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economic base lacks diversity and the manufacturing base needs further modernisation.</strong> It has one of the North&rsquo;s less diverse economies, and while it has high manufacturing employment (16.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) only 4.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of employment is in high-tech, and only 9.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent is in knowledge-intensive business services &ndash; both are declining at a rate that&rsquo;s disproportionate.<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1"> </strong>Tradables account for a healthy 36.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the Humber&rsquo;s GVA &ndash; but this, of course, leaves it more exposed to any turbulence ahead.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.3</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Humber: Manufacturing dominates and is growing, but few other sectors thrive<strong class="medium CharOverride-1"> </strong>and modern sectors are struggling<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The Humber&rsquo;s labour market has major challenges.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-18"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resident qualification rates are low.</strong> It has the lowest share of highly qualified residents in the North: just 27.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent possess degree-level qualifications, and 9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of its residents have no qualification at all; graduate retention is a low 72.8 per cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economy has fewer jobs.</strong> There are only 70 jobs for every 100 working-age residents, with 89.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of residents working in the area, and a net outflow of 14,000 commuters.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">This leaves many looking for work for a long time, or giving up.</strong> Unemployment is above average (6.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and employment is below (72.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and quite a high proportion of JSA claimants have been looking for work for more than six months (47&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economy could be more dynamic but startups can be successful.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Businesses don&rsquo;t tend to start or do well in this area.</strong> Self-employment is low at 11.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, and the business registration rate was only 1.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, with only 53.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of businesses surviving three years after their creation.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Businesses aren&rsquo;t innovative and but quite a high proportion reach high rates of turnover.</strong> Only 12&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D (joint lowest in the North with Cumbria) but 6.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of startups reach a turnover of &pound;1 million in three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-2">Poor governance adds to the area&rsquo;s difficulties, but it is planning for the future.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">No devolution has taken place in the Humber</strong>. The geography of devolution has been hotly contested in Yorkshire and within the LEP area itself, and this has held the Humber back &ndash; this is complicated further by the fact that the LEP area includes two local authorities that are part of the Greater Lincolnshire Combined Authority (GLCA)</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">However, the LEP has attracted a reasonable amount of funding.</strong> The LEP secured &pound;114 million of funding from the government (&pound;123 per resident), broadly in line with the average of English LEPs (albeit low in the North); however, the area spends &pound;26 per capita on planning and development &ndash; the highest in the North.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7" id="6.3-york-north-yorkshire-and-east-riding">6.3 York, North Yorkshire and East Riding</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Overview</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">York, North Yorkshire and East Riding (YNYER) is a rural and relatively prosperous area within the North. It is one of few northern areas that is neither urban nor industrial &ndash; it has a great deal in common with southern and eastern LEPs in the UK, and places such as Galicia, Bretagne and Friesland in the rest of the EU. York is its only city, and its population is otherwise dispersed among a number of small towns. While it is a prosperous and productive area in its own right, it has important connections with the rest of the North &ndash; and especially Leeds city-region. It is a resilient and prosperous area.</p>

<p class="subhead_2">Business base</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The economic base is both diverse and balanced between several sectors &ndash; but lacking any particular specialism.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The economic base is diverse and isn&rsquo;t dominated by any particular sector</strong>. It has a specialisation index that is second only to Cheshire and Warrington of the non-metropolitan areas, and isn&rsquo;t dominated by either public sector employment (18.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) or manufacturing (10.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent); both the knowledge-intensive business services and high-tech sectors are smaller than average (9.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent and 5.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent respectively) and both are shrinking in relative terms.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">This is not an area geared strongly towards trading. The area does not have a strong base in tradables (30.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), and lacks either the tradable services or the manufacturing base of many post-industrial towns elsewhere.</p>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 6.4</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">York, North Yorkshire and East Riding: Employment is distributed among a&nbsp;number of sectors, and growth in moderns sectors is low<br />
<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Location quotient (x axis), regional share (y axis) and total employment (size)</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Office for National Statistics, &lsquo;Business Register and Employment Survey 2015&rsquo; (ONS 2016e)</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_2">Labour force</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">A healthy labour market underpins this prosperity.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">The population is highly qualified</strong>. It lacks the mass of students found elsewhere, has low graduate retention (67.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and 14,000 more graduates leave than come in. However, 36.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have degree-level qualifications and only 6.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent have no qualifications.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Job density is average, but many residents commute to nearby city-regions.</strong> There are 78.1 jobs per 100 working-age residents, but a third of residents work outside the area (the highest of any northern LEP) and with 56,000 more people commuting out than commute in.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">These linkages work well for residents.</strong> The unemployment rate is low (3.1&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), the long-term JSA claimant proportion is the lowest in the North (39.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and the employment rate is very high (79.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent).</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Entrepreneurialism</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">New businesses survive well, but aren&rsquo;t particularly innovative or profitable.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">Few businesses start but a large proportion survive. A high 17.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of workers are self-employed (among the highest rate in the country), and survival rates are high (61.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent), although registration is low, at just 2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last">These businesses don&rsquo;t grow fast or show much sign of innovation. Only 13&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent invested in R&amp;D and only 4.9&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent make &pound;1&nbsp;million turnover after three years.</li>
</ul>

<p class="subhead_2">Governance</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">Governance and funding let the area down.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Governance is a major challenge</strong>. There is no combined authority, it overlaps with two other LEPs &ndash; Leeds city-region and the Humber &ndash; and issues over Yorkshire&rsquo;s future devolution and governance remain unresolved.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The area has missed out on vital funding.</strong> It only received &pound;98.8&nbsp;per&nbsp;capita in its growth deal &ndash; the second lowest in the North &ndash; but is among the highest spenders on planning and development in the North, at &pound;26 per capita.</li>
</ul>

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<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-005-backlink" id="footnote-005">5</a> All data presented in the area profiles included in this chapter is from the following sources: BIS 2015; DCLG 2016; HEFCE 2015a, 2015b; ONS 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2016e; DCLG et al 2014.</p>
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<div class="footnote">
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnote-anchor" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-6.xhtml#footnote-004-backlink" id="footnote-004">6</a> Median</p>
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		</div></div></article><article id="annex" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-title">Annex</span></h1><p class="body_para">The authors adapted and modified a typology developed by Aumayr (2007), also using the methodology of de Beer et al (2014) to adapt this to LEP and NUTS 2 areas. The following criteria were used to break European regions into 18 typologies.</p>
			<ol>
<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Metropolitan status:</strong> includes in its entirety a larger urban zone of more than 1.5 million people, or is the principal region covered by the larger urban zone (data on metro area population: Eurostat 2014).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Urban/non-urban:</strong> a region is classified as predominantly urban (PU) if it has more than 40 per cent of the population living in constituent NUTS3 regions that are classified as PU by Eurostat, and less than 33 per cent of the population living in NUTS3 regions that are classified as predominantly rural (PR) by Eurostat. A region is classified as PR if it has more than 33 per cent of the population living in NUTS3 regions that are classified as PR by Eurostat, and less than 40 per cent living in regions classified as PU by Eurostat. All others are classified as intermediate (IN), whether they have <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">both</em> more than 40 per cent living in PU and less than 33 per cent living in PR, or they have <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">neither</em>. In line with the typology developed by Aumayr (2007), there is a distinction in the typology framework between urban (PR) and non-urban (PR and IN). The NUTS3-to-NUTS2 conversion follows the methodology developed by de Beer et al (2014).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Central/peripheral:</strong> a region is classified as peripheral if it is either:<ul>
<li class="bullet_2 _idGenParaOverride-1">entirely insular, or </li>
<li class="bullet_2_last _idGenParaOverride-1">has a population density of less than 84.88 inhabitants per km<span class="CharOverride-4">2</span> (bottom third). </li>
</ul>
</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Industrial employment:</strong> a region with more than 15.32 per cent (median value) of employment in industry is classified as industrial.</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Relative sectorial productivity for industry (HIP/LIP):</strong> the index is calculated as the ratio between the share of GVA in industry and the share of employment in industry. A high industrial productivity region has a relative sectorial productivity index above 1.289 (median value).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Relative sectorial productivity for services (HSP/LSP):</strong> this index is calculated as the ratio between the share of GVA in services and the share of employment in services. A high service productivity region has relative sectorial productivity index above 0.986 (median value).</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Tourist economy:</strong> regions are classified as tourist economies if they have more than 20 tourist beds per 1,000 inhabitants.</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Agrarian economy:</strong> regions are classified as agrarian if they have more than 10 per cent of their employment in agriculture.</li>
			</ol>
<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-7">There are far more categories than are necessary for the North’s 11 LEPs, but they are all listed below, with examples from among those LEPs where there is one or more.</p>
			<ol>
<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-17">Metropolitan, industrial, high industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, industrial, low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, non-industrial, high services productivity (Greater Manchester, Leeds city-region, Sheffield city-region)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Metropolitan, non-industrial, low services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, industrial, high industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, industrial, low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial, high services productivity (Liverpool city-region)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial, low services productivity (Lancashire, Cheshire and Warrington, North Eastern, Tees Valley)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, agrarian</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, tourist</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial, high industrial productivity (Cumbria)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, industrial low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, non-industrial, high services productivity<span class="footnote-ref _idGenCharOverride-2"><span id="footnote-006-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink _idGenColorInherit" href="SOTN2016_text_epub_161208-8.xhtml#footnote-006">7</a></span></span>
</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, peripheral, non-industrial, low services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, industrial, high industrial productivity (Humber)</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, industrial low industrial productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">Non-urban, central, non-industrial, high services productivity</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last">Non-urban, central, non-industrial, low services productivity (York, North Yorkshire and East Riding).</li>
			</ol>
<p class="subhead_2 ParaOverride-7">Comparator regions shown in figure 4.1</p>
			<table id="table001" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Metropolitan, non-industrial areas with relatively high services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Andalucía</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Área Metropolitana de Lisboa</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Attiki</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Campania</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Greater Manchester</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Île de France</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Közép-Magyarország</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lazio</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Leeds City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">London</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Mazowieckie</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Noord-Holland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Praha</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Région de Bruxelles-Capitale</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sheffield City Region</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-f-row bas-row _idGenCellOverride-1">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Wien</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="subhead_2">Comparator regions shown in figure 5.1</p>
			<table id="table002" class="Table-100-">
<colgroup><col></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial areas relatively high services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bratislavský kraj</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Darmstadt</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Eastern Scotland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Essex</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Flevoland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
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							<p class="table_text_left_align">Gelderland</p>
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Hampshire and Isle of Wight</p>
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<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Helsinki-Uusimaa</p>
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Liguria</p>
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<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Liverpool City Region</p>
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Vlaams-Brabant</p>
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<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur</p>
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					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Surrey, East and West Sussex</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Utrecht</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-metropolitan, urban, non-industrial areas with relatively low services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Cheshire and Warrington</p>
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					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Dorset and Somerset</p>
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					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">East Wales</p>
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<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area</p>
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<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Kent</p>
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<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Leipzig</p>
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							<p class="table_text_left_align">Noord-Brabant</p>
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Nord - Pas-de-Calais</p>
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<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">North Eastern</p>
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<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Overijssel</p>
						</td>
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<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Antwerpen</p>
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<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Hainaut</p>
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<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Liège</p>
						</td>
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<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Tees Valley</p>
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<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-f-row bas-row _idGenCellOverride-1">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">West Wales and The Valleys</p>
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						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Aragón</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Basilicata</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Castilla-la Mancha</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Comunidad Foral de Navarra</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Cumbria</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Dytiki Makedonia</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Etelä-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">La Rioja</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Länsi-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lietuva</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Norra Mellansverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">North Eastern Scotland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Östra Mellansverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Steiermark</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sterea Ellada</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Västsverige</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-urban, central, non-industrial areas with relatively low services productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Bretagne</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">East Anglia</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Friesland (NL)</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Galicia</p>
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Groningen</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Lüneburg</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Midtjylland</p>
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<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Prov. Brabant Wallon</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Schleswig-Holstein</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sjælland</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Southern and Eastern</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">York, North Yorkshire and East Riding</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-h-row bas-row">
							<p class="table_medium_white_left">Non-urban, central, non-industrial areas with relatively high industrial productivity</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Braunschweig</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Cantabria</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Észak-Magyarország</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Haute-Normandie</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Humber</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Münster</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Niederbayern</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Niederösterreich</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Nyugat-Dunántúl</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Oberösterreich</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Oberpfalz</p>
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					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100-">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Sachsen-Anhalt</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Schwaben</p>
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					</tr>
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<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Trier</p>
						</td>
					</tr>
<tr class="Table-100- _idGenTableRowColumn-1">
<td class="Table-100- bas-row">
							<p class="table_text_left_align">Tübingen</p>
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            <article id="summary" class="chapter current" style=""><div class="Chapter-frame"><div id="_idContainer020" class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-title">Summary</span></h1><p class="body_para">Last year’s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report was full of confident projections of northern powerhouse potential. In substantive terms, little has changed: this year the northern economy has passed the £300 billion mark, jobs growth has motored on, and northern regions topped this year’s EY Attractiveness Survey for foreign investment.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-1">However, dark clouds are gathering on the horizon following the events of the past six months that have engendered more than a wobble – uncertainty now pervades the northern mood. Regardless of current quarter on quarter national GDP growth, the decision to leave the EU will have a profound effect on the northern economy. Whether in terms of trade, access to skilled labour or EU funding programmes, the implications of Brexit on the North will be profound. There will be upsides of course but for the time being business is cautious and concerned.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">The political fallout from the Brexit vote has also been severe. The champions for the northern powerhouse in the national government – former chancellor George Osborne and financial secretary Jim O’Neill – have both departed the main stage. Meanwhile, devolution deals appear to have stalled, and the focus on regional rebalancing has now been subsumed into a wider initiative to develop an industrial strategy. </p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">All this, however, presents new opportunities. While Osborne’s approach was always too partial, piecemeal and parochial, Greg Clark’s ambition to create a ‘place-based industrial strategy’ led by the powerful new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has the potential to ignite a new era of economic activism around some of the North’s major economic strengths.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">Such developments are timely. Following on from IPPR North’s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Blueprint for a Great North Plan</em> in January 2016, which set out a framework for a modern industrial strategy, Transport for the North unveiled in June the results of the Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review. The review identified four ‘primary economic capabilities’ where the North has been shown to have world-class assets and a further three ‘enabling capabilities’ that will underpin this potential.</p>
			<p class="body_para">Add to this the excellent progress being made in building powerhouse capacity in relation to transport infrastructure, finance, trade and investment; the northern powerhouse strategy and northern powerhouse schools strategy published alongside the chancellor’s autumn statement; and there should be cause for cautious optimism. Instead though, wider events mean that business confidence is weak and once again, the prospects of inclusive growth in the North are looking as distant as ever.</p>
			<p class="body_para">Our <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North 2016</em> report focuses on three key issues that will build business confidence in an era of increasing uncertainty.</p>
			<p id="securing-a-united-northern-voice-at-the-brexit-negotiating-table" class="subhead_1">Securing a united northern voice at the Brexit negotiating table</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4">The North has distinct economic assets and interests that present both opportunities and threats as the UK prepares to leave the European Union. However, the fledgling and patchy development of combined authorities, metro mayors and devolution deals in the North means that the region is not well placed to formulate a coherent response to Brexit. It will therefore struggle to match the response of the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales, or of the mayor of London or other well-established lobbying groups.</p>
			<p class="body_para ParaOverride-5"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 1:</strong> <strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">IPPR North calls for the formation of a Northern Brexit Negotiating Committee to determine the type of Brexit that would best suit the North, to speak with one voice in the negotiations, and to build direct relationships with regions and nations within and beyond the EU in order to develop and enhance its particular trade interests.</strong></p>
			<p id="establishing-clear-principles-for-a-place-based-industrial-strategy" class="subhead_1">Establishing clear principles for a place-based industrial strategy</p>
			<p class="body_para_into_list">The government’s industrial strategy represents an opportunity not only to address the implications of Brexit but also to take a more proactive approach to many of the structural challenges facing the UK economy, not least regional rebalancing. There are numerous ‘types’ of industrial strategy with varying degrees of intervention. IPPR has set out four clear ‘objectives’ that any new approach must address including the need to develop a strong spatial dimension to enable all parts of the country to contribute to its prosperity, but IPPR North believes that industrial strategy must adopt three ‘place-based principles’. </p>
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<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Regional differentiation:</em> Develop a more sophisticated understanding of what drives growth in different types of region rather than the hitherto insufficient account of growth focused on urban agglomeration.</li>
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<em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">Co-ordinated investment:</em> Drive up public investment in infrastructure, research and development and other economic assets to match private sector investment and act as a catalyst for business innovation and smart specialisation.</li>
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<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution:</em> Develop and enhance its approach to devolution both to regional and local tiers of government with a much greater emphasis on fiscal powers to enable subnational bodies to direct investment on local economic opportunities.</li>
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<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 2: IPPR North calls upon government to adopt a place-based approach to industrial strategy with the three core principles of regional differentiation, coordinated investment and devolution as its foundation.</strong></p>
			<p id="focusing-on-local-economic-resilience-alongside-growth-and-devolution" class="subhead_1 ParaOverride-7"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">FOCUSING ON LOCAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE ALONGSIDE GROWTH AND DEVOLUTION</strong></p>
			<p class="body_para">The large majority of our <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North 2016</em> report focuses on the importance of building local economic resilience. As with industrial strategy, there is a rich literature on how local economies resist and recover from economic shocks. Building on the work of Martin and Sunley (2014), IPPR North has developed a resilience framework consisting of four factors, each with a set of key indicators, and has used these to profile each of the 11 local enterprise partnership (LEP) areas across the North of England.</p>
			<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-8">Our analysis finds that the North’s resilience is as varied as its geography, but we have been able to group the North’s LEP areas into the following categories.</p>
			<ol>
<li class="number_list_1 ParaOverride-9">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Resilient or prosperous:</strong> areas that are relatively well prepared, with a diverse economy and strong labour market</li>
				<li class="number_list_1">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dynamic but vulnerable:</strong> areas where there is a diverse or diversifying economic base, but have some structural flaws, especially compared to similar city-regions in the EU</li>
				<li class="number_list_1_last ParaOverride-10">
<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Dependent or vulnerable:</strong> areas that are reliant on a single industry or small group of industries, and have significant structural issues to overcome.</li>
			</ol>
<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 3: IPPR North recommends conducting LEP resilience audits. The North’s LEPs, working closely with relevant local and combined authorities, should each conduct a resilience audit that sets out in detail the threats to their economy in the wake of Brexit. This audit should then be used to inform a strategic response, and a set of asks from the government that are tailored to acting on this strategy as part of a new round of devolution deals with each LEP area.</strong></p>
		</div></div></article><article id="context" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">1.</span><span class="chapter-title">Context</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="chapter_subhead">Brexit and industrial strategy</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-11">The UK economy is set for a period of significant disruption. The EU referendum result pitched the nation into economic uncertainty, with Brexit itself looming just two years from April 2017. A new government has come to power, affording a prominent role to industrial strategy and inclusive growth. Meanwhile the northern powerhouse is now under new ownership with different ministers and new mayors soon to be elected in its major cities. These are significant changes, which will have a different effect on different parts of the North. Chapter 1 explores this changing context and argues that a principled, place-based industrial strategy could build a North that is more resilient to economic turbulence.</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.1-the-uk-and-the-european-union">1.1 The UK and the European Union</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-11">The nature of Brexit is subject to a range of political influences and decisions that are as yet unknown. The referendum vote signalled that the UK will leave the EU, but the terms of departure remain uncertain: parliament and various interest groups will seek to shape the settlement to their interests. The final deal will also be subject to the increasingly volatile politics of the EU itself and within some of its major constituent nations &ndash; France and Germany especially &ndash; which multiplies this uncertainty further. As a result some of the fundamental policies that underpin the UK economy are under threat, especially: trade policy, with the EU and other countries; migration policy with EU states; and foreign direct investment from within and outside the EU.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Uncertain politics makes for an uncertain economic outlook. Up until now the impact of the Brexit vote has been mixed: the first release of GDP since the referendum indicated only a marginal slip (post-referendum quarterly growth was 0.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent, compared to 0.7&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent before); but the value of the pound has collapsed dramatically &ndash; the effective exchange rate (weighted for trade flows) has slipped to the lowest level on record (Hunter&nbsp;et al 2016). In this uncertain time, any forecast is to be treated with caution, but some of the major organisations that analyse the British economy have downgraded their forecasts for 2017 (see IMF 2016, OECD 2016). Moreover, the background economic conditions pre-Brexit were themselves far from healthy: economic growth has been low in the UK since the recession, while structural labour market issues and inequality persist.</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-3">Earlier this year, IPPR North published a report exploring these issues from the perspective of the north of England (Dickinson and Cox 2016). The report identified eight interrelated issues where the North is likely to have specific concerns on account of its distinctive economic mix. These concerns are specific to particular economic sectors that predominate in the North and where the region has particular economic strengths, such as advanced manufacturing, energy, health innovation and the digital economy. Related to each of these economic strengths are the following concerns:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1">the North has a higher proportion of international trade with the EU than many other parts of the UK</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">sector-specific skills and labour market issues</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">engagement with pan-European innovation systems and access to particular streams of research funding</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-13">particular regulations and issues around public procurement, state aid and assisted areas</li>
	<li class="bullet_1">regional and subregional economic development funds.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">The impact of the EU on UK GDP is far larger than that of other countries. For example, it is around three times that of the US (3.4&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) and four times that of the combined &lsquo;BRIC&rsquo; emerging economies (2.3&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent) (Springford et al 2016). This is because EU &lsquo;value chains&rsquo; have strong multiplier effects throughout the economy, with manufacturing goods and service sector trade closely interrelated. Given that the EU-UK demand multiplier value is 2.4, it is estimated that a 1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent reduction in UK exports to the EU &ndash; equivalent to 0.2&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of UK GDP &ndash; leads to a reduction in UK GDP of 0.5&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent &ndash; equal to our net EU budget contribution (ibid).</p>

<p class="body_para">These figures are, however, aggregated at the UK level. Critically, dependence on EU trade is far greater in the regions outside London. Academic research shows that most UK regions outside London are anything from 50 to 100&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent more dependent upon EU trade than London, and that they have become more dependent on EU trade since 2000, while London has become less dependent (McCann 2016). As a consequence, the impact of any reduction in EU trade will be significantly greater in the north of England and the Midlands than elsewhere. Ironically, it&nbsp;is those areas that voted in favour of Brexit where both local labour income&nbsp;and local productivity is likely to be most adversely affected.</p>

<p class="body_para">It is therefore essential that the North ensures that it has the tools it needs in order to both exploit the opportunities that Brexit offers, and mitigate the risks that it will pose.</p>

<p class="body_para">The fledgling and patchy development of combined authorities, metro mayors and devolution deals in the North means that the region is not well placed to formulate a coherent response to Brexit that will match those of the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, or that of the mayor of London or other well-established lobbying groups. Furthermore, it is quite impossible for central government to deal meaningfully with the demands of over 30 upper-tier local authorities, and 11&nbsp;local enterprise partnership areas, in the North one by one.</p>

<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium CharOverride-1">Recommendation 1: A Northern Brexit Negotiating Committee should be established to determine the type of Brexit that best suits the North, to speak with one voice in the negotiations, and to build direct relationships with regions and nations within and beyond the EU in order to develop and enhance its particular trade interests.</strong></p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.2-place-based-industrial-strategy-and-inclusive-growth">1.2 Place-based industrial strategy and inclusive growth</p>

<p class="body_para">In part as a response to the implications of Brexit and the underlying sense of urgency for rebalancing the economy, the new government has set out its intention to develop and implement a &lsquo;place based&rsquo; industrial strategy to drive growth &lsquo;up and down the country&rsquo; (Clarke 2016, May 2016). The formation of a new department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is poised to intervene strategically in the economy, something which hasn&rsquo;t been done so overtly for many years. There is also a powerful economy and industrial strategy cabinet committee &ndash; chaired by the prime minister &ndash; geared towards this end. This approach will bring the UK into line with similar countries, such as Germany and France, who have a long history of being more interventionist in relation to regional economic development. Articulating her view on the government&rsquo;s new industrial strategy, the prime minister recently stated that:</p>

<p class="blockquote ParaOverride-14"><span class="CharOverride-2">&lsquo;</span>We will identify the sectors of the economy&hellip; that are of strategic importance to our economy, and do everything we can to encourage, develop and support them. And we will identify the places that have the potential to contribute to economic growth and become the homes to millions of new jobs. That means inspiring an economic and cultural revival in all of our great regional cities.<span class="CharOverride-2">&rsquo;</span></p>

<p class="blockquote_ref">May 2016</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list ParaOverride-12">IPPR has already set out four clear objectives for a new national industrial strategy (Colebrook 2016). One of these objectives is the need to develop a strong spatial dimension to facilitate a more even spread of economic activity across the country. Building on this, it is crucial that the <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">geography</em> of industry is embedded in this new industrial strategy. Doing so should bring together five strands of policy:</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-15"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Sectoral strategy.</strong> This focuses on enabling specific sectors to grow, for example by investing in specific technologies, or subsidising businesses directly, often without factoring in geographical considerations.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-9"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Regional strategy.</strong> This is concerned with the geography of economic growth, and is often simplified as a desire to &lsquo;rebalance the economy&rsquo;. This tends to focus non-sector specific or &lsquo;horizontal&rsquo; interventions at the regional level &ndash; such as transport investment, skills and innovation.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Smart specialisation.</strong> There is a further concept which sits at the juncture of these strategies: &lsquo;smart specialisation&rsquo;, which aims to understand and drive innovation. This concept originates within industrial theory, but more recently has been transposed onto regional economics (McCann and Ortega-Argil&eacute;s 2011).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Devolution.</strong> Regional structures have now been replaced by far looser local enterprise partnerships across England, and far more focused combined authorities in some major cities. The lessons from Europe indicate that regional governments are very well placed to drive industrial strategy, and McCann (2016) concludes &ndash; from a comprehensive analysis of the UK economy &ndash; that institutional change and spatial rebalancing must go hand-in-hand.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Inclusive growth.</strong> For many years policymakers have made the mistake of overprioritising GDP growth as a policy objective. There has been some surprise that GDP growth hasn&rsquo;t improved living standards for many. This in turn has led to an academic and often abstract debate about how policy should go beyond GDP, or how economic growth can be made more &lsquo;inclusive&rsquo; (Stiglitz et al 2009, RSA 2016, Lupton et al 2016). It has been clear for some time that, alongside GDP (or GVA), policymakers should prioritise employment, wages, progression and the inclusion of disadvantaged groups.</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">Building on these five strands of policy, this <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report argues that any place-based industrial strategy should rest upon three principles that relate to the &lsquo;place&rsquo; element of industrial strategy.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 1: Regional differentiation.</strong> There is a need for a more sophisticated understanding of what drives growth in different types of region (OECD 2012, NEFC 2012). The role of cities is vital, but the agglomeration hypothesis is overplayed &ndash; a UK city with double the population of another comparable UK city will only be 1.6&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent more productive &ndash; far less than in many similar countries (Ahrend et al 2015). Policy should instead draw on modern understandings of regional economics that, while accounting for the importance of cities, prioritise the wider region in both their analysis and the policy prognosis that results (McCann 2016).</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">Many smaller towns and cities make a significant contribution both individually and through their interactions with the bigger cities. Furthermore, in the North important prime capabilities &ndash; advanced manufacturing and energy sectors for example &ndash; are largely based outside cities, though they often rely on them for their supply chain and labour pool (Cox and Longlands 2016, NIER 2016). In order to account for this, place-based industrial strategy must allow for sufficient regional differentiation in terms of the sectors it chooses to prioritise, the investments it chooses to make, and the tools and powers it chooses to devolve.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-4"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 2: Coordinated investment. </strong>Building on principle 1, interactions need to happen between businesses within prime sectors; and between them and their supply chains, enabling capabilities and underpinning assets &ndash; especially the universities (McCann and Ortega-Argil&eacute;s 2011, NIER 2016)<strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">. </strong>Infrastructure &ndash; including transport, broadband and facilities (such as lab space) &ndash; can enable the ecosystem that businesses need to develop organically; R&amp;D investment generates overspills within places; and transport infrastructure can broaden the labour force that a diverse business cluster has access to. There needs to be a significant increase in public investment in infrastructure, research and development and other economic assets to match private sector investment and act as a catalyst for business innovation and smart specialisation. Such investment needs to be coordinated both in terms of a sectoral and geographical approach but also between public and private partners.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-7"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Principle 3: Devolution. </strong>In order to achieve principles 1 and 2 most effectively, central government needs to devolve further powers and collaborate with regional and local government. Regional government in Europe has proven highly capable of implementing industrial strategy. In the UK &ndash; especially the North &ndash; local government is both well informed about local economic capabilities, and in many areas is developing the institutions to take on a much greater level of responsibility in this regard. To date, however, devolution deals have been too partial and piecemeal and there needs to be a more radical consideration of the potential for greater fiscal devolution and powers held at a more strategic &lsquo;mezzanine&rsquo; tier &ndash; such as the North.</p>

<p class="body_para"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">Recommendation 2: IPPR North calls upon government to adopt a place-based approach to industrial strategy with the three core principles of regional differentiation, coordinated investment and devolution as its foundation.</strong></p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="1.3-north-first-northern-potential-as-an-exemplar-for-industrial-strategy-and-inclusive-growth">1.3 North first: northern potential as an exemplar for industrial strategy and inclusive growth</p>

<p class="body_para_into_list">The North could be an exemplar region for place-based industrial strategy and inclusive growth. There are significant foundations on which to build, and demonstrable benefit from taking such an approach.</p>

<ul>
	<li class="bullet_1"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There are a number of assets that &ndash; with the right investment &ndash; could enable the North to thrive.</strong> The northern powerhouse agenda may lack definition, but it does speak to the North&rsquo;s economic potential: it is home to 15 million people; it contributes &pound;304 billion to UK economic growth; and it ties together 5 major cities, 8 major ports and 29 universities (Cox and Raikes 2015).</li>
	<li class="bullet_1 ParaOverride-16"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">There are institutions taking form which could take it forward</strong><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">.</strong> The northern powerhouse has started to take shape: Transport for the North is soon to gain statutory status, and in May 2017 new metro mayors will be elected across a wide swathe of the North.</li>
	<li class="bullet_1_last ParaOverride-6"><strong class="medium _idGenCharOverride-1">The prime and enabling capabilities of the North are well recognised, and understood by local stakeholders.</strong> Crucially, the North has already set out the prime capabilities that such an industrial strategy can harness, and the enabling capabilities that can support these. Transport for the North recently undertook the Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review (NIER), in which it analysed the concentration of sectors and listed the assets within the North. From this, the NIER set out the North&rsquo;s prime capabilities: advanced manufacturing, health innovation, energy and digital; and its enabling capabilities: financial and professional services, higher education and logistics (NIER 2016).</li>
</ul>

<p class="body_para">The North is also well placed to deliver <em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">inclusive</em> economic growth. The combined authorities &ndash; with or without mayors &ndash; are able to bring together public service reform and economic policy within a place in a new and crucial way: for example by commissioning the work and health programme in a way which aligns with demand-side activity (Raikes and Davies 2016). Some northern cities are already setting out their strategies for inclusive growth, and even aligning this with industrial strategy objectives: Greater Manchester is already seeking to use its skills powers to prioritise sectors which offer entry-level jobs to be taken up by those who are the focus of public service reform (GMCA et al 2014).</p>

<p class="body_para">However, any broad, place-based industrial strategy &ndash; let alone one focused on inclusive growth &ndash; will only succeed if it is founded upon strong and resilient local economies. The focus of this year&rsquo;s <em class="light-italic CharOverride-1">State of the North</em> report will therefore now shift to the importance of local economic resilience, followed by a series of resilience profiles assessing the economic strengths and weaknesses of the North&rsquo;s 11 local enterprise partnership areas.</p>

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<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 1.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Elements of an industrial strategy for the North</p>

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</div></article><article id="understanding-economic-38-160-resilience" class="chapter hidden moving" style="display:none;"><div class="Chapter-frame"><h1 class="chapter_header_bold"><span class="chapter-number">2.</span><span class="chapter-title">Understanding economic&#160;resilience</span></h1><div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1">
<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">The ability to adapt to any economic turbulence ahead will vary from area to area. Chapter 2 introduces the concept of economic resilience: it first sets out how this concept can be defined, before looking at different ways in which it can be measured, and then setting out our methodology for this project.</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.1-defining-resilience">2.1 Defining resilience</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-3">Defining resilience is a complex but important task. For obvious reasons, the subject has received much attention &ndash; the financial crash clearly had an impact on policymakers and academics. However, for perhaps less obvious reasons, the field has been of increasing prominence since the turn of the century &ndash; driven largely by the long-term decline of industry in developed countries (Christopherson et al 2010).</p>

<p class="body_para">For many, the concept remains somewhat &lsquo;fuzzy&rsquo; (ibid, Pendall et al 2009). Many definitions require some kind of &lsquo;normal&rsquo; to be defined, so that an economy&rsquo;s ability to remain in this state can be derived: resisting or absorbing a shock in employment or output; recovering quickly to such a shock; or maintaining core system performance (Martin et al 2013).</p>

<p class="body_para">Resilience clearly isn&rsquo;t simply a matter of how sharply an area or industry contracts or recovers. While useful context, these definitions fail to account for fundamental transformation as a response either to shock, or to long-term structural changes (Christopherson et al 2010). In response some have expanded the scope of resilience to be more conceptual and so incorporate diversity, modularity, social capital, innovation, overlap, tight feedback loops and ecosystem services; pushed a little further, resilience is seen by some as &lsquo;dynamic adaptation&rsquo; (Lewis and Conaty 2012, Greenham et al 2013).</p>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.2-measuring-resilience">2.2 Measuring resilience</p>

<p class="body_para">The focus of this report is on how well prepared areas are for the years of uncertainty ahead. While the concept of resilience is itself the subject of debate, there is some consensus that a number of factors will help an economy to survive and adapt to changes. Martin and Sunley (2014) set out a framework that we will develop, illustrated in figure 2.1.</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-12">Others have given more tangible form to this framework, and some have sought to aggregate a number of measures into a single index. The OECD makes use of a number of social and environmental indicators to inform its work on city resilience &ndash; in the economy domain, it is diversity, dynamism, innovation and employment and skills which are the priority (Saya 2016). Local and regional governments in the UK have used a range of common indicators as proxies for these: Advantage West Midlands used workforce skills, employment rates and business turnover (AWM 2010); Ekosgen used a similar set of indicators when they analysed the resilience of Sheffield city-region (Ekosgen 2009). Some organisations have sought to incorporate environmental and social considerations into their measurements (Greenham et al 2013) &ndash; however, given the focus of this report on post-Brexit economic resilience, we do not take these into our own analysis.</p>

<figure class="figure-image Full-width-object-frame-inline" id="figure-1">
<p class="figure_header_rule_above">Figure 2.1</p>

<p class="figure_table_header_subhead">Resilience can be determined by the interaction of four economic&nbsp;subsystems<br />
<em class="light-italic _idGenCharOverride-1">Determinants of regional economic resilience</em></p>

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<p class="figure_source_note_rule_below">Source: Martin and Sunley 2014</p>
</figure>

<p class="subhead_1" id="2.3-our-methodology">2.3 Our methodology</p>

<p class="body_para ParaOverride-2">We draw on the above research, but adapt it to the current situation: that is, with the North and the nation on the brink of Brexit. In the case studies in chapters 4&ndash;6 we have attempted to summarise each of the 11 northern LEP areas from a resilience perspective, using both data analysis and qualitative judgement where appropriate. The picture will inevitably be incomplete, and not all of the above determinants of resilience can be measured: some factors are determined nationally, and are therefore irrelevant for local comparisons (national economic policies for example); others are not measured locally (such as debt structure and financial strength) even though it would be helpful if they were. Some indicators require proxies (we used business registration rate as a measure of entrepreneurship); and others are qualitative judgements made on the best evidence available (those related to governance especially). It is important to note that some of these indicators c