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Economic Growth: North of England

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Question for Deputy Prime Minister

UIN 906052, tabled on 11 November 2014

Question

Steve Rotheram
Labour
Liverpool, Walton
Commons

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what progress he has made on the Northern Futures project.

Answer

Greg Clark
Conservative
Tunbridge Wells
Commons

Answered on

18 November 2014

The Northern Futures project has been a great success, introducing a more open and inventive style of policy making and engaging thousands of people across the North in the process.

Nearly 2,000 people are following the Northern Futures twitter account. More than 300 have attended town hall events with me in Sheffield, Leeds and Stockport. 170 gave up their time to join ‘open ideas days’ in eight cities across the North, including in Liverpool. More than 300 people attended our Northern Futures Summit in Leeds on November 6th.

In addition, TechNorth will be established to support the region’s tech businesses.

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