Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham & Nottinghamshire

Our modern Industrial Strategy sets out our long-term plan to boost productivity by backing business to create high quality, well-paid jobs Population: 2,179,200 throughout the United Kingdom with investment Businesses: 86,710 in skills, industries and infrastructure. In D2N2, as it is known, a partnership of business and Case study: civic leaders — alongside other local partners — is The Sustainable Energy working with the government to build on existing Futures Building strengths, help business to flourish, and grow skills and opportunities for workers across the area. The Sustainable Energy Futures Building, which consists of Industrial Strategy highlights include: cutting-edge laboratories and equipment at the Jubilee Campus in the University of £600,000 to the University of Nottingham, has received an Nottingham to develop molecule investment of £12m. The facility drug substances that can help is helping the UK to advance its create new and more targeted position as a global leader in the pharmaceutical treatments. energy sector and the Industrial Strategy’s “mission” to halve the energy use of new buildings by £18m for improvements to the 2030, part of the Clean Growth A614 at Ollerton to support the Grand Challenge. It supports the economic potential of North government’s targets to reduce Nottinghamshire by improving carbon emissions by testing access to key tourism sites and developing new low-carbon such as Sherwood Forest technologies. Country Park. For more examples go to bit.ly/IS-map £3m to accelerate housebuilding by providing the vital infrastructure needed to access new and existing sites. D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership is now working with the government to develop its 1,046,700 people in Local Industrial Strategy employment, an increase of 71,500 since 2010. 62,900 We have committed more than £45bn to workers directly benefiting IndustrialWe have already Strategy committedallocated programmes over more £45 supporting than billion £45 from the National Living and research,acrossbillion to the national local UK throughinfrastructure, and local the workersIndustrial training throughout Strategy. and Minimum Wages. 20,290 businessthe UK as growth part of throughout the Industrial the Strategy.United Over £3 billion new funding from the 2018 apprenticeships starts last year. Kingdom.This money This is alreadymoney isstarting already to starting be spent to be spentonBudget the on ground. ensures the ground. we can expand our work.