Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Geography Update

The LEP geography was updated on 3 October 2011:

  • New Northamptonshire LEP added. Covers the entire county of Northamptonshire, whose districts are Corby, Daventry, East Northants, Kettering, Northampton, South Northants and Wellingborough.
  • North Lincolnshire joins Lincolnshire LEP (is already member of Humberside LEP).

The following LEP names have been updated:

Old Name New Name
The Marches Enterprise Partnership - Shropshire and Herefordshire  The Marches
Oxford City Region Oxfordshire
Kent, Greater Essex and East Sussex South East
North Eastern Local Enterprise Partnership North Eastern
Pan London London
Stoke and Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire

Nomis LEP Geography Revision History

3 Oct 2010 New Northamptonshire LEP added. Covers the entire county of Northamptonshire, whose districts are Corby, Daventry, East Northants, Kettering, Northampton, South Northants and Wellingborough.

North Lincolnshire joins Lincolnshire LEP (is already member of Humberside LEP)
28 July 2011 New Swindon & Wiltshire LEP added. Covers the LAs of Swindon and Wiltshire.
7 July 2011 New Dorset LEP added. Covers the LAs in Dorset plus Bournemouth and Poole. York and North Yorkshire LEP coverage extended to include East Riding.
13 June 2011 New Humber LEP added covering North Lincolnshire, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire.

North East Lincolnshire also joins Lincolnshire LEP (is already member of Humberside LEP).
24 May 2011 Birmingham and Sheffield LEPs coverage extended. Bolsover joined Sheffield and Redditch. Bromsgrove and Wyre Forest have joined Birmingham.
18 May 2011 New Gloucestershire LEP added. Covers all six councils in Gloucestershire: Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Stroud and Tewkesbury.
18 Apr 2011 New Lancashire LEP added. Covers the LAs in the Lancashire County plus Blackpool UA and Blackburn UA.
14 Apr 2011 LEP geography added to Nomis. Read the original news article for details.

About LEPs

LEP data on Nomis: Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) are available as standard geographies with most Nomis datasets. They are listed under the commonly used heading of the geography option in wizard / advanced queries.
LEP labour market profiles are available from the the summary statistics panel on our homepage.

Background info: Background information about LEPs is available from the BIS website.

Discussing: There is a thread about LEPs in the Nomis forum. Please use this for discussion of the LEP geography.