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Our modern Industrial Strategy sets out our long-term plan to boost productivity by backing business to create high quality, well-paid jobs throughout the with investment in skills, industries and infrastructure. In a partnership of business and civic leaders — alongside other local partners — is Population: 3,000,000 working with the government to build on existing Businesses: 126,245 strengths, help business to flourish, and grow skills and opportunities for workers across the area. Industrial Strategy highlights include: Case study: NEXUS Innovation Centre

The NEXUS Innovation Centre, Investment to support the opened Spring 2019 at the Northern Alliance Advanced , is helping to Therapies Treatment Centre to expand business innovation and deliver advanced therapies and incubation space in the Leeds City treatments to NHS patients. Region. The £3m Local Growth Fund investment, which is part of the University’s overall campus £20m for flood resilience investment of £520m, will help packages in , businesses more easily access the , , University’s world-class research and Leeds. expertise and increase the amount of ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ lab space for businesses looking to innovate. Funding to provide residents More than 500 businesses are with the digital connectivity they expected to benefit from NEXUS need through improvements over the next few years. in the availability of full fibre broadband. For more examples go to bit.ly/IS-map

1,456,200 people in employment, an increase of Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnership 110,900 since 2010. 88,300 is now working with the government to develop workers directly benefiting its Local Industrial Strategy. from the National Living and Minimum Wages. 29,720 We have committed more than £45bn to apprenticeships starts last year. IndustrialWe have already Strategy committed programmes more supporting than £45 research,billion to national local infrastructure, and local workers training throughout and businessthe UK as growth part of throughout the Industrial the Strategy.United Kingdom.This money This is alreadymoney isstarting already to starting be spent to be spenton the on ground. the ground.