A new cross-Humber private sector-led partnership has met for the first time to map out its immediate future.
First announced two months ago in Michael Gove's Levelling Up White Paper, Opportunity Humber is set to take over the regional focus of the former Humber Local Partnership which folded last year. It is being led by consumer healthcare brand Reckitt's chief executive Laxman Narasimhan.
The Humber LEP ended when the two South Bank councils voted against its continuation as a public-private sector partnership and decided instead to join forces with the Greater Lincolnshire LEP. Since then, it's believed a number of concerned South Bank-based firms have been lobbying ministers over re-establishing a Humber-based approach to wider economic development.
