Providing Leadership to Drive

Growth in Oxfordshire

Dr Martin Dare-EdwardsChairman of Oxon-LEP

Outline Remit of LEPs Guidance to LEPs Oxfordshire LEP Introduction Oxfordshire LEP Current Priorities Oxfordshire LEP Progress Role of LEP’s in Planning Oxon-LEP Specific Planning Opportunities Final Remarks

Providing Leadership to Drive Growth in Oxfordshire

The Remit of LEPs

Local enterprise partnerships bring together local business and civic leaders, working to support their local economy.

They will operate within a geography that reflects natural economic areas

They will provide the vision, knowledge and strategic leadership needed to drive sustainable private sector growth and high value job creation in their area.

Guidance to LEPs

Business-led Follow the bid-basis upon which LEP was

approved Gather further Business input for key

priorities Collaborate with neighbours and others

relevant to specific Growth projects Don’t expect any more guidance… …but Do advise Government on

opportunities, and vis-à-vis constraining regulations

Seize your opportunity for “leadership” for pursuit of Growth in your local area

“Proceed until apprehended”!

Oxfordshire LEP Introduction

Seizing our opportunity for Local Leadership in the Pursuit of “Outstanding” Growth in Oxfordshire

“Touchstone” for all our activities:– Increasing the number of Sustainable,

High-Value-Adding jobs in our area

Coordination for Coherence and Synergism:– Sharply Prioritising our efforts to where we can add

value(Row / Steer / Cheer approach)

– Will not impose on existing successful partnerships, but will strongly promote “unifications” or explicit collaborations

– Act as forum for issues that need assistance to resolve

Friends/Supporting Groups – “Oxfordshire Business First”, FSB, IoD, CBI, OTCN,

ORCC etc.

– “Distillation” and “Cascade” processes

Oxfordshire LEP – Current Priorities

Priority Work Themes:– Supporting Inward Investment

• Identifying and Promoting “Clusters of Excellence” • Supporting Existing Businesses to Innovate and Grow• Specialised Supply Chains in High Growth Sectors

– Securing Investment for Enabling infrastructure Projects

• Next Generation Broadband Access• Transport-Connectivity for Growth Hot Spots & “East-West”

– Addressing Skills Mismatches • Raising aspirations and tailoring provision to business need

Spatial Priorities – Science Vale UK - National & International excellence for

Science & Innovation– Bicester – Drive to establish coherent Housing and

Employment-based Development, inclusive of the Eco-exemplar

– Oxford – Continue to support our inward investment as world-class centre of education, research and innovation

Oxon-LEP Progress Inward Investment

– Subgroup established & developing the “compelling promotion” for Oxfordshire

– Need to identify the leading sectors to build into the promotion, and also to feed to UKTI Inward Investment (cf. MoU) e.g. Space - Earth Observation, Cryogenic Engineering, Biotechnology - Drug Discovery

Strategic Infrastructure– Broadband Investment Proposal to BDUK (July 2011) – “Key Component” Bid to Local Strategic Transport Fund -

Supporting Employment Growth and Accessing Higher Education & Healthcare in Oxford (£5M of £8M Total Cost)

– Bid to Local Strategic Transport Fund - Oxfordshire Growth Arc (£18M of £36M Total Cost)

– East-West Rail – RGF1 Bid not accepted but gathering support of local MP’s in Houses of Parliament on 12th July

Oxon-LEP Progress (cont)

Skills– Establishment of Oxfordshire Skills Board as single grouping

(with Business input) to drive greater alignment of provision with needs

– Skills Needs Analysis to be undertaken with key element to gather intelligence from SME’s (OCC’s Business and Skills team will be a resource to assist in this task

– Valuable dialogue with Skills Funding Agency, including identification of SME’s as warranting own sector focus

Planning– See next slides

Role of LEPs in Planning

DCLG Comments:“Intention for Localism Bill to have regard to role of LEPs for planning…across local authority boundaries……keen to work with front-runners… Harnessing the powerful voice of business in planning decisions, facilitated by infrastructure development…leading production of strategic plans.”

"Consistent with localism, we will not be prescribing planning roles for LEPs - it is for them to decide what roles they want to take on and on what basis they do this reflecting their needs, skills and ambitions."

Specific OpportunitiesOxon-LEP and Planning

Enterprise Zone (Developing cases of 2 potential candidates)

Local Development Orders

Business Improvement Districts

Tax Increment Financing

Oxon-LEP will give business input to the Oxfordshire Strategic Planning & Infrastructure Partnership (SPIP) vis-a-vis the drive for growth in high value-employment & the local economy

Providing Leadership to Drive Growth in Oxfordshire

Final Remarks

Major Challenges

Coordination and Unification

Sharp Prioritisation

Promotion and Pursuit of Excellence

– Fantastic Opportunities

Oxfordshire LEP

Backup Slides

Oxon-LEP Executive BoardChairmanDr Martin Dare-Edwards – Infineum UK

Executive Board Vice-ChairsAdrian Shooter CBE – Chiltern RailwaysProf Ian Walmsley - University of OxfordCllr David Robertson – Oxfordshire County Council

Executive Board (Champions)James Dipple - MEPCJonathan Lloyd-Jones – Blake LapthorneStuart Miller – ByBoxTony Stratton – CPM and Oxford InspiresIan Wenman – IoD Sally-Ann Forsyth – Goodman / Harwell OxfordProf Colin Whitehouse – STFCTBN – MoD OxfordshireSally Dicketts - OCVCAnn Ducker – South Oxfordshire District CouncilBob Price – Oxford City CouncilPaul Inman – Oxford Brookes University

Oxon-LEP ForumChairmanDr Martin Dare-Edwards

“Ambassadors”Dave Richards (Prodrive)Jonathan Flint (Oxford Instruments)Chris Harris (London & Metropolitan)Ciaran Rafferty (Sophos) John Hoy (Blenheim Palace and VisitEngland) John Ormston (HR Wallingford) Jürgen Hedrich (BMW)VC Prof Andrew Hamilton (University of Oxford)VC Prof Janet Beer (OBU)Sir Jonathan Michael (NHS)Brigadier Neil Baverstock (MoD)Prof Steve Cowley (UKAEA) Keith Mitchell CBE (OCC)