LEPs UNCOVERED Alex Pratt OBE

Holder of The Queens Award For Enterprise Promotion Chair of Buckinghamshire Thames Valley LEP

ALL LEPS ARE EQUAL But Some Are More Equal Than Others…….

Heineken Lights

“The long term competitiveness on which our wealth depends is slipping away. Failure is measured in drift, in mediocrity..... a nation with its head hung down, in the shadow of world events…….a nation reconciled to genteel discomfort, envious of what once was, hopeless of what might have been.”

Lord Hezza

“Britain is in the economic equivalent of war" and "in this global race you are either quick or you're dead".

Dave

The Future?

PROSPERITY Grandfathers • Fathers • Our Watch

Entrepreneurial Mentality • Local vs Central Govt TRUST

BACKGROUND 39th • Jan 2012 • Small

BBF • £100k • 3000 • 35% • BROs LEP Board • Secretariat • £3.5M • 40

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE EHB • Most Micro • 60 • Home • +£4500

Green Belt • AONB • Schools • Growth Sectors

APPROACH Business at Heart • Ozymandic • Build Capacity

Partnership • Herts • GTV6 • London

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

John F. Kennedy

WHAT’S NEW? Business 200+ • Place Strategy vs Nat Policy

SLGF • EU Allocations • On a Promise

The LEP Chair Spring

CHALLENGES Bus vs LA Focus • Bus vs Econ Devpt

Leadership Font • Single Thimble? • 4-62 Delegation/Devolution • Overlaps

39 vs 39LEPs • Growth? • Governance Accountability • Labour • Capacity

LEPs UNCOVERED Alex Pratt OBE

Holder of The Queens Award For Enterprise Promotion Chair of Buckinghamshire Thames Valley LEP