Greater & Solihull

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. Population: 2,013,200 In Greater Birmingham and Solihull a partnership of Businesses: 87,675 business and civic leaders — alongside other local partners — is working with the government to build on existing strengths, help business to flourish, and grow Case study: skills and opportunities for workers across the area. Birmingham Centre for Industrial Strategy highlights include: Clinical Haematology (CCH)

The expansion of the Over £2m to develop cell centre, following a £2.4m and gene therapies through investment, seeks to boost the National Institute for the city’s life sciences sector Health Research. and to provide thousands of patients with better access to world-leading, life-saving £2.7m to accelerate treatments through the housebuilding by providing the provision of new state-of- vital infrastructure needed to the-art clinical innovation access new and existing sites. and research facilities for patients with blood cancers.

Additional funding to provide For more examples residents with the digital go to bit.ly/IS-map connectivity they need through improvements in the availability of full fibre broadband. Birmingham is also one of the centres for the multi-million pound trial of new high-speed Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local 5G connectivity in urban areas. Enterprise Partnership is part of the trailblazer Local Industrial Strategy.

925,500 people in We have committed more than £45bn to employment, an increase of IndustrialWe have already Strategy committed programmes more supporting than £45 97,900 since 2010. 64,200 research,billion to national local infrastructure, and local workers training throughout and workers directly benefiting businessthe UK as growth part of throughout the Industrial the Strategy.United from the National Living and Kingdom.This money This is alreadymoney isstarting already to starting be spent to be Minimum Wages. 17,790 spenton the on ground. the ground. apprenticeships starts last year.