Consultation - 
The
Regional Growth Fund (England)
Date published: 23 July 2010
Response due: 6 September 2010
Semta response submitted: 6 September 2010
Summary
To ensure that the Regional Growth Fund is flexible enough to
meet different needs in different places it will have two main
objectives:
- To encourage private sector enterprise by providing support for
projects with significant potential for economic growth and create
additional sustainable private sector employment; and
- To support in particular those areas and communities that are
currently dependent on the public sector make the transition to
sustainable private sector led growth and prosperity.
This consultation asks some key questions on how the RGF might
be introduced and managed, in advance of the White Paper being
published in the Autumn. Semta's response raised questions
regarding how skills for our sectors might be supported by a
Regional Growth Fund
Next steps
The Local Growth White Paper was published in October 2010.
Documents and Links
Government summary of responses to the consultation
Semta response
Consultation
document
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and the media. If you are an employer in the science,
engineering, or manufacturing technology sectors we welcome your
views at policy@semta.org.uk
4 November 2010