The body tasked with growing the North East economy is pushing the Government to provide more substance to some of its key policies as it tries to help the region emerge from the pandemic slump.
Leaders from the North East LEP say they are eagerly waiting details on the Government’s levelling up white paper, which was postponed from its original publication date before Christmas and is now reported to have been pushed back further.
They also want to know about more about how the Shared Prosperity Fund - the UK’s replacement for the EU funding that has been crucial to the North East in recent years - will affect its work in trying to kickstart the region’s economy after the twin blows of Brexit and the pandemic.
