Interim Report May 2018
www.cpier.org.uk Foreword
FROM THE CHAIR OF THE REVIEW, DAME KATE BARKER CONTENTS
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Independent Economic Review (CPIER) is pleased to present the interim report, which has been led by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Independent Economic Commission (CPIEC). It is co-funded by Executive Summary 4 the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, the Business Board of the Combined Authority, and Cambridge Ahead. 1. The Economy of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough This is of course the Commission’s report. The views expressed have been developed as independent – as our funders 1.1 Overview 8 asked us to do. 1.2 Economic Geography 10 1.3 Growth 16 The Commission is now roughly at the half way stage in the review. We have gathered a great deal of evidence. Much of 1.4 Business 23 the evidence we have is data on the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough economy. Most of what we have now is from 1.5 Human Capital 30 published sources, and we have commissioned a range of new research too. Some of that is available to us now and 1.6 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough 34 informs this report. Much of the research is still underway and will be reflected in the final report. At this stage, we have Futures not set out a wholly definitive analysis of where the economy of the area is heading and what should be done about it. This is more our view of where the economy is today and how it got there, an important starting point for the review. 2. Perspectives On The Future Of Cambridgeshire And Peterborough While the area the review has responsibility for is defined by its administrative geography, we are primarily concerned with 2.1 Introduction 37 the economics of the area, and we therefore refrain from artificially simplifying, or forcing together, the economic 2.2 The Economic Geography of 38 geography. We also acknowledge where there is evidence of significant economic linkage beyond the administrative area. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and the Nature of Growth But the interim report aims to do much more than set out data and economic evidence. 2.3 The Role and Scope of Industrial Policy 40 2.4 The Social Inclusion Dimension to 43 We have been clear from the outset that no Commission or process of review could fulfil the terms of reference we have Growth been given (available here1) without taking full account of the views of the people, businesses and other organisations 2.5 Human Capital: Education and Skills, the 44 whose work contributes most to the creation of the economic present and future of the area. That is why we issued a call Role of Higher Education and Migration for evidence in January. We received 52 responses, which are summarised in this interim report, and for which we are very 2.6 Transport and Infrastructure 46 grateful. The Commission has also had a range of very informative discussions with the Local Authorities of the area and 2.7 Housing 50 with the Combined Authority Mayor, as well as other local stakeholders. These too are reflected in this report. 2.8 The role of the public sector 52
We use our baseline economic findings and the views of a wide range of people and organisations to set out what we see 3. Towards The Final Report as the most important policy challenges facing Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in the years ahead. The Commission 3.1 Questions for further consultation 53 believes these are the most important to tackle if the area is to meet the goal set out in its Devolution Deal with Government 3.2 Next steps 53 (to increase economic output by nearly 100% over the next 25 years, from £22bn to over £40bn). Every area will have to maximise its contribution, where the challenges, and what success will look like, are different. While it is critical to plan Appendices for the projects of the future, it is even more important to do the right things now. This will mean ensuring strong growth Appendix 1: Calculation of the CA/BRES 54 continues in high-output areas, and laying the ground for future growth in lower-output areas. combined measure of growth in Corporate Employment In our final report, we will offer our views on how this goal might best be achieved and a series of policy recommendations Appendix 2: Business overview of each 54 which support it. Here we aim to lay the foundations for the final report. Whilst we would welcome views on any aspect of district this report, the policy issues are the most important and where we would be particularly interested to receive feedback. Appendix 3: Employment location quotients 58 according to BRES data With this in mind, we are inviting comments on the interim report. You are welcome to submit any responses, views and supplementary evidence to the Commission at [email protected]. We would be very grateful if responses were sent by 8th June 2018.
Dame Kate Barker
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Executive Summary
THIS REPORT felt everywhere (although not by everyone). this can be unlocked. However, the relatively This is the Interim Report of the CPIER, which What is clear, though, is that there are different poor connectivity of the fens, which for the is the first major project undertaken by the dynamics at play. The area can be broadly purposes of this report broadly comprises CPIEC. It has been commissioned and funded understood as three economies, based the Districts of Fenland, and parts of by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough around Cambridge, Peterborough, and the Huntingdonshire and East Cambridgeshire, Combined Authority, the Combined Authority’s fens. As with any characterisation, it simplifies is one very important factor in shaping both Business Board (formerly the Greater – there are, for instance, significant crossover recent and more longstanding, lower growth Cambridge Greater Peterborough Local areas – particularly Huntingdonshire, which in the area. The area has a large agribusiness Enterprise Partnership) and Cambridge looks to Peterborough in the north, and the and food sector, which plays a big part in Ahead. This is a report of the CPIEC. It is Cambridge area in the south. feeding the nation – 37% of English acreage intended to inform policy decisions undertaken given over to the growing of vegetables in by the Mayor, Combined Authority, and Peterborough has been and remains a the open is found in the fens4. However, others but it is an independent report and diversified economy with strong traditions the area’s economy has historically grown the views expressed here are those of the in manufacturing and engineering, but with modestly, and the value of its output is below Commissioners only. a strong base in services too. It has strength that of other areas. in its excellent rail connections to London This interim report sets out the progress in and the Midlands via the East Coast Mainline, The remaining part of the area is centred on the CPIER to date. It is intended to stimulate allied to reasonable national road connectivity Cambridge, and includes South Cambridgeshire debate and views on its contents are and significant room for growth, making it an and parts of East Cambridgeshire and welcomed. Throughout the report we have ideal centre for a range of economic functions Huntingdonshire. This large area has grown highlighted key questions the final report will requiring otherwise scarce, affordable but dramatically for some decades, fuelled to a answer, and here we would especially value connected premises. This is reflected in a significant degree by the growth of Cambridge’s input. The closing date for views on the report quickly growing population – currently the innovation-rich boom, which is concentrated is 8th June. Following the completion of the fourth fastest-growing city in the UK2. in the city and South Cambridgeshire, but has research undertaken by the Commission and Nonetheless, Peterborough’s economic spread out from there, and is complemented further consultation and deliberation over the evolution and the loss of traditional jobs by similarly strong performance in the spring and summer, the final report of the has had an impact in some parts of the city, southern part of Huntingdonshire. This is a CPIER will be launched in September 2018. creating localised problems. phenomenon that has historic roots dating back to the 1960s, but has been refreshed by Peterborough has long had a natural role as new waves of investment and technological THE ECONOMY OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE the gateway to the fens and there is some development. This report analyses the AND PETERBOROUGH evidence of this today in commuter patterns. nature of growth in and around Cambridge Section 1 of the Report sets out the evolution Though (as with the connectivity south to and concludes that this growth is driven by of the economy of Cambridgeshire and Cambridgeshire) relatively poor road and rail locally-specified factors (and may be slow to Peterborough in recent years. It demonstrates connectivity have limited links into this area, spread as a result), and that the natural pull there have been markedly different trends the exception being relatively well-connected of this growth is towards the south and east. This interim report sets across the area. There are real reasons for northern Huntingdonshire. out the progress in the optimism – business birth rates in all districts The economy, travel to work and housing CPIER to date. It is have increased over the last six years, GVA The fens hold the area’s greatest natural patterns of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (Gross Value Added – a measure of the value asset in the extremely high quality arable are dominated by these three core areas intended to stimulate of output of the economy) has been increasing land – 50% of England’s grade 1 agricultural which adjoin each other in an indistinct way. debate and views on its everywhere, and employment is growing. land is found here3. The market towns of Unlike other, more city-centred Combined The often noted ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’ is this area are a marked feature and strength Authorities, this is not a single economic area. contents are welcomed. continuing, but increasing prosperity is being which hold much potential for the future if It is a geographically large multi-centred area
2Source: Centre for Cities 3Source: https://www.nfuonline.com/assets/23991 4June agricultural census 2006, DEFRA 6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 7
in which each city and indeed market town multinational companies moving in. This is Issues that arise from the responses include the has a different role. The southern economy not to diminish, however, the extent to which vitally important question of industrial strategy, has been the most productive – this has been national and international companies have noting that, while there are excellent examples significantly facilitated by creating the made the area their home, due to its global of best practice already identified through conditions for growth through proactive reputation. consultation, there are also gaps in knowledge, planning policy and purposeful action to including in relation to business premises. stimulate nascent entrepreneurs, which has The Commission has also taken a particular in turn leveraged external private and interest in how health impacts upon work, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough suffers government investment. and vice versa. The link between poor health from significant inequality and the data and outcomes and poor performance at work has analysis received in consultation highlights We also find evidence that, right across these been noted by many studies, and similarly, a strong spatial and social dimension to economies, growth is higher than official bad working practices can have a detrimental inequality. Given the major impact this has on figures suggest. Examination of employment impact on health. The report notes that health individuals, families, and communities, as well growth in individual companies suggests outcomes are very uneven across the area of as economic performance, inclusive growth is firms are increasing employment at a rate study, and that this seems to be exacerbating another key theme. greater than that captured by ONS (Office of productivity divides. This subject will be National Statistics) data; similarly, turnover returned to in more detail in the final report. A range of views was received on human capital: growth is strong. This will be viewed as education and skills, as well as the role of positive in most quarters; there are, however, There is also a preliminary analysis of work higher education and the impact of changing major doubts as to how well the area is set being undertaken by Cambridge University patterns of migration. Despite strong up to cope with future growth, particularly into the future of the area. Building on a long educational performance in the main, there where the strain is already evident. track record of working on the Cambridge are marked concerns about the quality of economy (Cambridge Futures, and the school system, particularly in relation to These current dynamics are important in the Cambridge Futures 2 – this work is therefore students who do not take an academic route context of the target agreed as part of the sometimes referred to as ‘Futures’) the CPIER through A-levels and to university. There is Devolution Deal between Cambridgeshire extends this analysis to the whole Combined also a high level of concern for the fitness for and Peterborough and the government. It Authority area for the first time. The full purpose of the skills and vocational training has committed the area to a near doubling of results of this analysis and the modelling of system. This is seen by many as having pivotal economic output from £22 billion to over £40 different scenarios will be available for the final importance in light of Brexit and the anticipated billion over the next 25 years. It is important report to underpin our recommendations. fall in the availability of migrant workers in that all areas grow and prosper, but it will skilled as well as unskilled occupations. take time to improve the economies in areas Initial work on the baseline is included in this that are currently lagging so that they catch report. It sets out a varied picture for the Whilst university provision in Cambridge is up with areas that are doing well. Those areas future of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. among the best in the world, the need for that are doing well now, even over a 25-year Positive levels of growth can be expected in higher level technical skills remains right period, will deliver the lion’s share of the GVA several parts of the area without overburdening across the area, with proposals being made growth for the target to be reached – slow the system. However, problems that are and strongly backed by the Mayor and others growth in these areas would mean the GVA already apparent in the greater Cambridge for further vocationally-oriented higher The Commission was in general encouraged capacity, not least to deal with what were target would be difficult if not impossible area of traffic congestion and prohibitively education provision in Peterborough. by the proactive and creative approach of described by some respondents as to attain. expensive housing look set to intensify. Unless Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s local increasingly complex national planning addressed soon, this will, in the long-run, restrict The Review received a wide range of consultation authorities to housing development. The requirements. This section also considers the nature of the potential of the Cambridge economy, and responses in relation to transport where view of respondents, which the Commission business. New research has looked at the reduce the growth of the whole area. the sheer range of potential investments will recognises, is that the housing development Section 3 sets out a series of Key Questions extent to which business in the area can be necessitate a principles-driven and prioritised will be constrained as much by the ability to arising from the consultation and data said to be ‘special’ and ‘indigenous’. The first Section 2 of the report considers in detail the approach so as to maximise the impact of deploy appropriate infrastructure provision analysis on which the Commission would examines the sectors where the area can be over fifty responses received to the Call for the programme in total and its impact on as by a willingness to develop sites in many welcome further views and discussion in the said to particularly excel, using analysis of the Evidence and the results of a wide-ranging each area. There are strategic risks to the cases – though they note that land values in period leading to the final report. The next University of Cambridge’s Centre for Business consultation exercise involving the commission area if it cannot get the major infrastructure some areas make it difficult to attract steps for the commission are summarised, Research’s (CBR) corporate database. This and key stakeholders, including the mayor, improvements it needs, and previous delays development interest. including a list of ‘Key Questions’, which are finds that each area has particular strengths local authorities, and a range of other key in bringing forward and delivering schemes spread throughout the report at relevant and has significantly higher concentrations businesses and interests. must not continue. But careful consideration A number of respondents to the consultation points. The Commission’s ultimate purpose is of certain industries than national averages. is required about which schemes will have the highlighted the potential for confusion and to make meaningful, evidence-based The second examines the extent to which The results of this consultation support the most impact, and about the optimal timing even duplication arising from the new recommendations that will inform the companies that were born in the area, or statistical analysis on the multipolar nature of different schemes. This question, and how governance arrangements. Whilst this can trajectory of the Combined Authority area. moved here over fifty years ago, contribute of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough these investments relate to other interventions, largely be attributed to their newness, with to turnover and employment. In the majority economy and the ready awareness of will be a major part of our final report. the balance of respondents seeing great This interim report aims to take stock of the of districts, we find compelling evidence that stakeholders about the differential speed opportunity from the advent of the Mayor current state of the economy, so preparing the homegrown companies have grown more at which parts of the area have grown over Among other issues flood risk was highlighted and Combined Authority, the need for clarity ground, and facilitating an informed approach. quickly since 2010. This signals that growth is recent years, as well as the distinct by a number of respondents, as was the issue and legibility of the new arrangements is ‘coming up through the floorboards’, rather opportunities and needs of each sub-area. of bottlenecks in the electricity supply – both clear. Delivering the new mandate for the than being largely the product of national and will be the subject of further analysis. Combined Authority will require sufficient 8 1.1 OVERVIEW 1.1 OVERVIEW 9
Cambridge has maintained its dominance, The Combined Authority sits at the centre of regularly topping international league tables. a much larger Local Enterprise Partnership Despite this, the city remains relatively small, and (LEP) area – the Greater Cambridgeshire (whilst it has been allowed to grow somewhat) Greater Peterborough LEP, whose board is contained within a large ‘green belt’. consists of local business people and local councillors. Its role is to deliver the Government’s Industrial Strategy insofar as it relates to all ADMINISTRATIVE GEOGRAPHY areas of local business. Recently, the GCGP The six constituent local authorities together LEP has been integrated into the Combined form the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Authority as ‘the Business Board’, with the Combined Authority (sometimes referred to two organisations now sharing premises at as CPCA). All districts but Peterborough also Alconbury. The map below shows the The Economy of fall under Cambridgeshire County Council – geographies covered by the Combined Peterborough City Council is a unitary council. Authority and the LEP. Cambridgeshire and Figure 1 – The Combined Authority and Local Enterprise Partnership for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Peterborough West Lindsey Bassetlaw Lincoln Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CA East Lindsey Gr. Cambridge Gr. Peterborough LEP Local authority districts North Kesteven
Gedling Boston Rushcliffe North Norfolk
South Kesteven
Melton South Holland King's Lynn and West Norfolk Broadland Great Yarmouth Charnwood 1.1 Overview Rutland Norwich Peterborough Breckland Harborough Fenland South Norfolk Corby East Northamptonshire Waveney Kettering The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area Sir Cornelius Vermuyden. This allowed Forest Heath Daventry Huntingdonshire East Cambridgeshire is home to over 1.6m people5, and covers an settlements to develop in areas which had Wellingborough Mid Suffolk area of 3,400 sq. km. It consists of six local previously been partially or entirely St Edmundsbury Northampton Suffolk Coastal authorities – Cambridge, East Cambridgeshire, underwater. The Bedford Level Corporation Bedford Cambridge South Northamptonshire Fenland, Huntingdonshire, Peterborough and was later founded to oversee the pumping South Cambridgeshire Ipswich South Cambridgeshire. Its largest conurbations and drainage of the area. Land use in this Milton Keynes Babergh Central Bedfordshire include Cambridge in the south, Peterborough area is now largely given over to agriculture, North Hertfordshire Braintree in the north-west, Wisbech to the north-east, thanks to its high-quality, peat-rich soil. Uttlesford Stevenage Colchester Aylesbury Vale Luton Tendring Huntingdon to the west and Ely to the east. East Hertfordshire
Many market towns grew up across the area Maldon Dacorum St AlbansWelwyn HatfieldHarlow and remain important centres of trade and Chelmsford 015K020 m BroxbourneEpping Forest Wycombe ChilternThree Rivers HISTORY society. Peterborough was one of these, until Hertsmere Enfield Brentwood Ø Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are its course changed drastically, due to its steeped in history. Major historic buildings newfound place on the Great Northern include the two ancient cathedrals in Ely and railway line between London and York. This The Combined Authority, as part of a The area is home to seven parliamentary Peterborough, where significant religious development allowed Peterborough’s brick Devolution Deal, now has a directly elected constituencies, which are: Cambridge, sites have existed since the 7th century. The industry to grow rapidly (combined with more Mayor. The current (and first) incumbent is Huntingdon, North East Cambridgeshire, cathedrals were constructed in the 12th and efficient production methods) and turned it James Palmer. As the head of the Combined North West Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, 13th century. The University of Cambridge into a large local centre. Engineering became an Authority, he is responsible for driving change South Cambridgeshire, and South East was founded in 1209, being granted a royal increasingly significant part of Peterborough’s within the area, accomplishing more by Cambridgeshire. This report’s data, however, charter by King Henry III in 1231, making it economy, which continues to this day. bringing local authorities together than would is given at the local authority level, as this the UK’s second-oldest university. be possible otherwise. tends to be how it is produced. This is also The University of Cambridge established itself more relevant for the Combined Authority. The fens – a large, flat area to the north and as one of the very best academic institutions east – begun to be dredged in earnest in the in the world, and boasts innumerable notable 17th century, led in part by the Dutchman, alumni and breakthrough discoveries.
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Fenland and East Cambridgeshire Huntingdonshire
1.2 Economic Geography
TREATMENT OF THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE would consider this as its ‘pool’ of potential though, stretching in all directions. AND PETERBOROUGH AREA employees. This would be seen in commuting Peterborough is the largest conurbation in A key finding from all of the work done to patterns. the surrounding (largely agricultural) area, date is that the Combined Authority area of which likely explains this fact. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is not one This is not what we find in Cambridgeshire economy. For our purposes, an economy can and Peterborough (see below and right). Those that work in Huntingdonshire tend be (roughly) defined by the following features: These images show where those who work in to come from the area, although, as noted, A shared labour market, where workers live each of the local authority districts live (based significant numbers from Huntingdonshire and travel within the same area; integrated upon 2011 census data). As can be seen, commute out to Peterborough and Cambridge. business, with supply chain linkages; and a Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire has The patterns for East Cambridgeshire and shared housing market. Considering the area the largest reach, stretching into Fenland are more disparate – there are fewer of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough under Huntingdonshire and East Cambridgeshire to commuters to jobs in these areas and there these headings: the north, as well as south towards London are less clearly defined centres that draw Source: 2011 Census Origin Destination table WU03EW - Location of usual residence and place of work by method of travel. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database and east into Suffolk. However, it does not people towards them. They have a loose pull right 2015. have significant reach into Fenland and on the area around them – the strongest A SHARED LABOUR MARKET Peterborough. It is the opinion of those links are into Peterborough, and also into the INTEGRATED BUSINESS, WITH Figure 3 – Median price paid for terraced properties: 2010-2015 To analyse the extent to which the labour consulted that, over the seven years since this King’s Lynn area from the north of Fenland. SUPPLY CHAIN LINKAGES market across the area is integrated, it is best data was produced, it is likely that Cambridge/ East Cambridgeshire also has significant ties When an area is functioning as one economy, to consider commuter data. If the labour South Cambridgeshire has extended its reach. into Suffolk via Newmarket – it is a quirk of we would expect to see close linkages between market is broadly unified, then when an administrative geography that this has been businesses across the area, through supply individual living in any one part of the area Peterborough has the characteristics of a effectively ‘carved out’ of East Cambridgeshire. chains. is considering offers of employment, they strong regional centre, with a clear retention would be willing to look at anything within the of large numbers of its residents within the These considerations demonstrate that there In the Combined Authority area, while a degree wider area. Consequently, any local business city for work. Its reach is greater than this is not a shared labour market across the of business integration exists, our initial Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area. impression is that supply chain linkages are not especially strong. For the final report, we will have Figure 2 - Commuting flows of workers completed our qualitative survey of businesses, and will provide further analysis on this. Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire Peterborough
A SHARED HOUSING MARKET Another indicator that an area comprises a single economy is that the housing market reflects what would be expected, were the same houses being considered by people across the area. We would therefore expect a degree of parity between property prices (as access to jobs would be roughly constant – though other ‘quality’ factors need to be considered), and parallel patterns for rents.
In Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, this is possibly the clearest indicator that there is more than one economy in operation. Differences between property prices are stark. Figure 3, which maps the median price paid for terraced properties, shows differences of greater than a factor of four between some of the northern districts and central Cambridge. Notably, Cambridge’s house prices are in the Source: Land registry: Price paid data. Contains Ordinance Survey data © Crown copyright same league as some areas of London. and database right 2015. 12 1.2 ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 1.2 ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 13
DESIGNING AN APPROACH THAT FITS locally dominant centre”7 in 2002. While there THE DATA have been changes since, we believe this Having rejected the idea that Cambridgeshire broadly to hold true. and Peterborough functions as one economic area, what better conception could be provided? The outstanding question is where the two There are different ways of subdividing the districts across the middle of the area – area, and any classification is guaranteed to Huntingdonshire and East Cambridgeshire be a simplification. Boundaries are ‘fuzzy’ and – fit into the analysis. It is clear that both there will always be connections and overlaps have an element of ‘looking two ways’. between different areas. Huntingdonshire has residents who both commute to Peterborough and Cambridge/ The characterisation which was found to South Cambridgeshire, as well as many who best fit is that of three economies – the fens, stay and work in the local market towns. East Peterborough, and the wider Cambridge Cambridgeshire has increasing numbers area. The rationale for this approach is set commuting to Cambridge, but also has a out below. significant agricultural economy and large areas of fens which are more akin to Fenland Firstly, the separation between the two largest to the north. conurbations in the area, Cambridge and Peterborough, was noted. None of the evidence Therefore, we end up with a geography which suggests strong economic connections has Peterborough and its surroundings in between these two places, therefore they are the north (including north Huntingdonshire) part of separate economies. Next, it is clear as one economy; the fens, including Fenland, that South Cambridgeshire and Cambridge some of East Cambridgeshire, and part of are part of the same economy – workers Huntingdonshire as a second; and Cambridge, commute between these two districts, and South Cambridgeshire, and southern parts much of the ‘innovation economy’ associated of Huntingdonshire and East Cambridgeshire with Cambridge (both the city and the as a third. University of Cambridge) is in fact based in MARKET TOWNS Useful work in this field has been done for South Cambridgeshire, such as Granta Park Finally, a note on the changes to the economic An important feature of the economic the East Midlands9, where a typology of and Babraham Research Campus. geography over time. As housing in Cambridge geography is the prominence of market secondary economic centres (consisting of and South Cambridgeshire has become towns. These have long served as economic Sub-Regional Centres, Manufacturing/ To the north, while there are some links increasingly expensive, workers have been centres for local populations, providing hubs Transition Economies, Strong Local Economies, between Peterborough and Fenland, these moving further afield – this is the case for both for commerce. While the relative importance Healthy Town Economies, Dependent/ are not particularly strong – hindered in part Huntingdonshire and East Cambridgeshire of market towns has, to some extent, Commuter Centres, and Centres without by poor transport connections (particularly (particularly Ely). The upgrading of the A14 declined as transport has enabled larger Critical Mass) has been utilised. along the A47). The business make-up of is set to deepen economic ties between centres to become more dominant, they Fenland and Peterborough also differ, with Huntingdon and Cambridge, and if upgrades continue to play a key role. For many rural agriculture and manufacturing forming a to the A10 go ahead, we would anticipate communities they remain the central LINKS TO LONDON more significant part of Fenland’s economy closer linkages between East Cambridgeshire destination for work, retail and leisure. They Certain towns and cities within the area (7.8% and 24.2% of district GVA for Fenland, and the Cambridge/South Cambridgeshire are of varying sizes, from the large (such as benefit from fast connections to London. To 3.6% and 12.7% for Peterborough, economy. Wisbech – population 32,489), to the assess the economic importance of London respectively) while distribution, transport, medium-sized (such as Yaxley – population for the area, we have examined commuter accommodation and food, and ICT are more Soundings have been taken on this approach, 9,174), and down to much smaller towns rail flows, using methods which take the 2011 significant for Peterborough (23.7% and 6.3% and the broad three-economy approach (such as Sutton – population 3,816)8. Census data on commuting, and then use for Peterborough, and 17.0% and 1.22% for seems to best reflect the perceptions of local Google maps recommended journeys to Fenland, respectively)6. Therefore, we have stakeholders. There are many opportunities for these estimate where people are changing in order treated these as separate. We note that towns, as they often present an attractive and to get to London. We have produced this Peterborough was described by the East of affordable alternative to larger centres and analysis for Cambridge and Peterborough, England Economic Planning Sub-areas and can deliver well on quality of life. However, both showing volumes of flows and destinations Cluster Policy as a “relatively isolated but they can be held back – for example, it was within London. As will be seen, there are noted by local councillors that poor internet significant numbers of commuters travelling provision in some market towns dissuades to London; however, when these numbers are businesses from relocating there, and some compared to the size of working populations, Key Question: Does this three-area characterisation high streets have deteriorated. it is obvious that a characterisation of these simply as ‘commuter towns’ to London summarise the area well? Which links between the area We will, in the final report, make suggestions would be false. As can be seen from figure have not been well captured? What are the most as to what further work could be done to 4 overleaf, these values number in the low understand and classify market towns, as well thousands; meanwhile Cambridge alone important links to outside the area? as what data can be examined to see the has a total of 143,818 commuters, of which trajectory different market towns are on. 54,643 is inflow from local areas.
6Source: Regional Accounts (ONS) - Regional Gross Value Added (Balanced). 8Figures taken from 2011 census. 7In the final report to the EEDA, page 4 9Secondary Centres of Economic Activity in the East Midlands (Atherton and Price, University of Lincoln). 14 1.2 ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 1.2 ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 15
Figure 4 – Commuter flows to London by rail ROLE IN KEY NATIONAL CORRIDORS East-West rail and the ‘expressway’ upgrade of high growth businesses. If the necessary powers Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is a hub road links will bring about faster connections to build new housing and infrastructure are area, from which various national ‘corridors’ and more housing10. It is also intended that this provided, along with talent development, and Commuting flows to London by rail - rail journeys originating at Cambridge stretch. These corridors are geographical corridor stretch to the east of Cambridgeshire. increased international reach of Stansted, an concepts which attempt to capture both Plans for this corridor will be fed into scenario extra 400,000 jobs by 2036 in the area are existing and potential economic linkages, planning in the futures modelling work. projected, along with the creation of 10 new demonstrating the potential that can be ‘unicorn’ firms (those valued at over $1bn). unlocked through greater connections Another key corridor, where much work has between centres of national excellence. been done, is the London-Stansted- Lastly, there is an important research corridor The most significant of these in the current Cambridge corridor11, which recognises the is the Cambridge-Norwich corridor, focusing policy environment is the Cambridge – Milton potential of an international hub centred on especially on food science and agricultural Keynes – Oxford corridor, where plans for Stansted, combining London and Cambridge’s technology.
NATURAL ASSETS Figure 5 – Agricultural land classification It is worth noting the intrinsic natural assets of the area. While there is no significant mineral wealth, the agricultural quality of the land is extremely high in some areas, particularly towards the north east – over 50% of the UK’s grade 1 agricultural land is found in the fens, along with significant quantities of grade 2 land in the south of the county. JOURNEY ORIGIN JOURNEY DESTINATION Relatedly, in the fens in particular, water has a significant effect on the local economy. Much of the area is classified by the Environment Agency as being in flood zone 3 (see figure 6). This presents challenges to local economic development. At the same time, there is risk of Commuting flows to London by rail - rail journeys originating at Peterborough drought in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough – it receives some of the lowest levels of rainfall in the UK, while a growing population is increasing the demand for water.
Figure 6 – Flood zone areas
JOURNEY ORIGIN JOURNEY DESTINATION
Source: Census Origin Destination table WU03EW - Location of usual residence and place of work by method of travel. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2018. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2018.
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ECONOMIC GROWTH Nonetheless, comparing Cambridge and Figure 9 – Employment and output growth Economic growth in the area has been strong Figure 7 – Total GVA – Index: 2001 = 100 Peterborough to other high-growth UK cities, for UK cities, 1981-2013 on the whole, although there are significant growth over the last forty years has been 140.00 disparities in the levels of output. relatively more driven by employment growth
135.00 – see figure 9. This may be in part due to high The Combined Authority area has been growing levels of public sector activity. faster than the wider East of England, and 130.00 indeed the UK. The best approach available The question of how to ensure growth in the 125.00 for measuring growth at local levels is to area benefits everyone is a challenging one. use Gross Value Added (GVA). While GVA 120.00 For now, the Commission notes the wide has traditionally been an income-based discrepancies that exist, and will for the final approach (summing up wages, profits, 115.00 report make recommendations on how every
INDEX, 2001 = 100 part of the area can best achieve inclusive and other incomes), recently a ‘balanced’ 110.00 approach has been developed by the Office growth which benefits residents. for National Statistics (ONS), which includes 105.00 production-based methods (i.e. the value of A central element of the Devolution Deal 100.00 goods and services produced locally) in the was the commitment by the new Combined measure. This is likely to give more accurate 95.00 Authority area to nearly double its Gross Value results, however, the approach does not allow 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Added (GVA) over the following 25 years for the removal of inflation from the analysis. Combined Authority East of England UK (from £22bn to over £40bn) in return for new
We have therefore also considered data from Source: East of England Forecasting Model (EEFM), Cambridge Econometrics powers. The Review has concluded that more the East of England Forecasting Model (EEFM, detail is needed around this target, including Source: Divergent Cities in post-industrial Britain - Martin, Sunley, Tyler and Gardiner developed by Cambridge Econometrics), defining precisely which measure of GVA will which does account for inflation. The EEFM be used, and how inflation will be accounted model is less likely to lead to overoptimistic for. A proposal for this will be set out in conclusions about growth, but the ONS the Final Report, which will detail how the figures are official, nationally comparable data, Combined Authority can ensure this target and are constructed using a more sophisticated captures the real value of the local economy method. There are discrepancies between over time, and appropriately balances the these two sources – we have attempted to population and productivity growth elements present as coherent an analysis as possible. of the GVA measure. It will also consider how this goal should be shared across the area – As figure 7 demonstrates, the area’s growth clearly all areas need to grow well for the area has performed significantly better than both to be succeeding, but areas which have larger the East of England and the UK. This growth economies at present need to grow by a was particularly strong in the period from smaller percentage to achieve the same level 2004 to 2006. of absolute increase in GVA. It follows that the bulk of the heavy lifting of this target will be Using ONS figures, we see that, while the Figure 8 – GVA per head growth between 2001 and 2016 done by the larger economies of Cambridge, GVA of the East of England has grown by 70% South Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. between 2001 and 2016 (though note this 45,000 40,000 figure does not account for inflation), and 35,000 that of the UK at 72.7%, the Cambridgeshire 30,000 and Peterborough area’s GVA has grown by 25,000 Key Question: How can 20,000 12 84.6% . However, across the area, there are 15,000 the area achieve its great discrepancies in the amount of GVA. 10,000 target of doubling GVA Alternative methods employed by Cambridge 5,000 0 Econometrics in creating the East of England CambridgeSouth East Huntingdonshire Fenland PeterboroughCambridgeshire in 25 years? Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire and... Forecasting Model, have shown wide differences in how districts are performing. GVA per head 2001 GVA per head 2016
Differences are less stark, but still significant Source: ONS Regional Accounts when GVA per head is considered. Strongest % growth has been seen in Huntingdonshire and Peterborough – see figure 8.
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THE SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE in the strategy set out in the Cambridgeshire Cambridge, and encouraged research However, one of the challenges associated Figure 10 – Ratio of median house price to median gross workplace ECONOMY and Peterborough 2003 Structure Plan, which institutes and laboratories to move to the with this higher growth is that housing has based annual earnings The high levels of GVA in the Cambridge/ itself informed the Regional Spatial Strategy and area. As the area established itself as a become less and less affordable. Figure 10,
South Cambridgeshire area are in large part subsequent rounds of local plans. Crucially, it scientific centre of global importance, a wave right, shows how in all districts the ratio of 13.00 due to an active knowledge and innovation made the case for further developing Cambridge of large multinational companies started to median house prices to median earnings has 12.00 economy. This has been allowed to grow over in a way that was persuasive and gave people move in, realising they had to have a presence increased. In 1997, all of these ratios were 11.00 the last fifty years as various areas of land ownership of the future of their city. This led to in the area. One of the most significant was reasonably close to the English average of 3.54 10.00 have been freed up to accommodate research areas of the Cambridge green belt being freed AstraZeneca (AZ), which has moved its global – with South Cambridgeshire highest at 4.53, 9.00 parks, business parks, and laboratories. up for important developments and various headquarters to the city. AZ initially bought and Fenland lowest, at 2.75. While Fenland, 8.00 market towns being expanded, along with the Cambridge AntibodyTechnology in 2006, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough have all 7.00 This ‘pro-growth’ mentality has not always designation of Northstowe as a New Town. proceeding to merge it into MedImmune (a later broadly followed national trends since then, 6.00 been instinctive in Cambridge. In 1950, the acquisition). Multinationals have continued East Cambridgeshire, South Cambridgeshire, 5.00
4.00 Holford Report into land use in Cambridge In addition, the City Deal acknowledged that to develop a presence – one example being and especially Cambridge have accelerated, House price to earning ratio suggested that the city’s population should Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire are Microsoft’s new research lab by Cambridge such that in Cambridge the median house 3.00 not be allowed to increase above 100,000. part of the same economy, and provided central train station. price was almost thirteen times median gross 2.00
Holford stated: “That there should be a funding to the Greater Cambridge Partnership earnings in 2016. 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 resolute effort to slow down migration into for development of transport networks. This This has helped foster a general innovation the Cambridge district, and to reduce the work is being implemented in conjunction culture, with accompanying finance, consultancy, Cambridge Huntingdonshire East Cambridgeshire high rate of growth so that future population with South Cambridgeshire District Council investment, and legal support. It is very South Cambridgeshire Fenland Peterborough should not greatly exceed present figures, is and Cambridge City Council. supportive for new enterprises, which means a England our first and main proposal.”13 large amount of innovation occurs. The clearest Source: ONS - Ratio of house price to workplace-based earnings (lower quartile and median) The release of green belt land, implementing indicator of the strength of this within the city However, in 1969, a committee led by Sir the strategy referred to above, provided for is the large number of patent applications, Nevill Mott, a Cambridge University Physicist additional homes and employment opportunities, three times that of its closest competitor: recommended to government an expansion of including at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. ‘science-based industry’ close to Cambridge to This has supported the continuing growth of take maximum advantage of the concentration the world-leading life sciences cluster in Greater of scientific expertise, equipment and libraries and to increase feedback from industry into the Cambridge scientific community. This draws out one of the paradoxes Figure 11 – MSOAs ranked by the percentage of households in poverty surrounding the idea of what makes a place 45.0 Throughout the seventies, a pattern of like Cambridge an ‘attractive place to live’. establishing technological companies started Table 1 – Top twenty cities for patent applications in the UK On the one hand, many feel that the small 40.0 to be set-up. This was small, but significant size of Cambridge coupled with its attractive 35.0 – with some companies floating on the stock PATENT APPLICATIONS and accessible surroundings are what draws RANK CITY market, and others being bought, often (PER 100,000 POPULATION) 2015 many high-value companies and individuals 30.0 by American companies. This generated 1 Cambridge 341.06 to locate there. On the other, the quantity of 25.0 capital, which could be invested in other new 2 Coventry 118.36 housing, which is small relative to levels of 20.0 business. Beginning with computers and 3 Oxford 79.86 economic activity, pushes up prices, potentially software, entrepreneurs began to branch preventing younger people on lower incomes 15.0 4 Derby 67.69
out into other sectors with different business from locating in the city – its high prices Households in poverty (%) 5 Swindon 61.59 10.0 models, such as telecommunications, and make it unattractive. This debate lies at the 6 Aberdeen 57.26 (more latterly) life sciences. centre of what kind of city Cambridge wants 5.0 7 Crawley 55.84 to be – though the choice may be less stark if 0.0 At the turn of the 21st century, the original 8 Aldershot 51.47 improved transport makes it easier to work in Cambridge Huntingdonshire East Cambridgeshire Cambridge Futures Report was published, 9 Slough 45.45 Cambridge but live outside of it. which aimed to explore what sort of direction South Cambridgeshire Fenland Peterborough 10 Reading 40.26 Cambridge and the surrounding area should It is also important to note that the economic Source: ONS 2014 11 Milton Keynes 38.22 take, engaging the public in this process. In growth of an area as a whole does not 12 Bristol 34.72 its introduction, it notes the two competing necessarily imply an absence of poverty. visions of Cambridge put forward Holford 13 Peterborough 30.20 Figure 11 shows MSOAs (Medium Super- and Mott, and maps out various scenarios 14 Gloucester 27.81 Output Areas, which contain roughly for Cambridge’s future. This work is being 15 Southampton 27.24 6,000 people) ranked according to the brought up to date, and expanded, for this 16 Birkenhead 26.55 percentage of households in poverty. As is report – see the Futures section for current 17 York 26.03 evident, some of the highest rates are found progress on this. in Peterborough, Fenland, and Cambridge. In 18 Dundee 22.84 Cambridge, this corroborates the finding by 19 Portsmouth 21.35 The work of the Futures report has had a the Centre for Cities that it is the least equal large influence on how planning has been 20 London 21.27 city in the UK14 – while there are high levels of enacted in the wider Cambridge area. Among UK 18.17 economic growth, it is evident that not other outputs, it informed the debate resulting Source: Centre for Cities everyone is experiencing this prosperity.
13Available at: https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/public/ldf/coredocs/RD-STRAT/RD-STRAT-430%20p1.pdf 14http://www.centreforcities.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18-01-12-Final-Full-Cities-Outlook-2018.pdf, page 31 20 1.3 GROWTH 1.3 GROWTH 21
POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT A strong increase is being seen in the 60-64 GROWTH age bracket, and decreases are being seen Population growth figures are of economic Figure 12 – Population growth: actual and forecast in most or all districts in the 5-14, 30-34, and significance, though the relationship is 35-39 age brackets. When the age brackets complex. To some extent, they describe the 250,000 are divided at the 39/40 break (so that those amount of labour available for the economy 0-39 constitute the ‘young’, and 40-80+ the to use in production. This will feed into future ‘old’), it becomes apparent that values are growth numbers. Additionally, the number of more significantly below the line for the people will affect house prices via demand 200,000 young, and more significantly above for the levels, and local government costs via greater old. Overall, the population can be said to be requirements for e.g. health and social care. ageing, although increases in the proportion of 20-24 year olds in most areas means the Population has grown in every district and is 150,000 picture is mixed. projected to continue to grow – see figure 12. Migration is a significant factor in determining Figure 14 – Annual National Insurance Registrations for Foreign Nationals what the population growth of Cambridgeshire
100,000 and Peterborough will be. (This is to be 6,000 EU Membership considered apart from inward migration, Referendum June 2016 which involves people moving from other 5,000 parts of the UK into Cambridgeshire and
50,000 Peterborough). Determining future migration numbers is challenging, particularly given 4,000 the current political circumstances. Since the EU referendum in June 2016 there has 3,000
0 been a sharp fall in the number of EU citizens CambridgeEast Fenland HuntingdonshireSouth Peterborough coming to the UK without a job to go to, while 2,000 Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire numbers with a definite job have remained at 2001 2011 2021 historically high levels. 1,000
Source: Census and Cambridgeshire County Council population estimates.
In Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, 0 National Insurance Registrations for Overseas 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2002/ 2003/ 2004/ 2005/ 2006/ 2007/ 2008/ Nationals have not fallen (see figure 14). 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17
Future levels shall depend upon the nature of YTD Sept 2017 Cambridge Huntingdonshire East Cambridgeshire agreements made between the UK government The largest increases between 2001 and Figure 13 – Changes in the % of the population in different age bands, South Cambridgeshire Fenland Peterborough and the European Union, as well as future 2011 were in Peterborough and South 2001-2011 (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough) Source: Department for Work and Pensions, 2018 government migration targets and the Cambridgeshire. By the next census in 2021, Age (years) degree to which temporary residents (such as increases are expected to have been greatest 0-45-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-4950-54 55-59 60-6465-69 70-7475-79 80+ seasonal migrant workers and international in Peterborough and Cambridge. The increases 1.5% students) are restricted. This brings us to a in Peterborough are especially striking – if broader question about what the likely effects these forecasts are correct, by 2021 its 1.0% of Brexit will be economically. population will have grown by almost 40% from 2001 numbers. Across the area, the 0.5% population grew by 1.34% per annum between 2001 and 2011 – a slightly lower rate of 1.21% 0.0% per annum is forecast to 2021, increasing the Key Question: What will population by a little over 100,000. -0.5% the likely impacts of The effect of this growth on the age -1.0% Brexit be upon the area? composition of the population has been How can the area best mixed, though the evidence suggests a -1.5% general ageing of the population across Source: ONS 2001 and 2011 census prepare for any changes Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Figure 13 shows the change in the proportion of this will bring? What local the population in each age bracket between and national policy the 2001 and 2011 censuses. (For example, environment is likely to in 2001, 7.9% of the population was aged between 35 and 39. In 2011 this was 6.9%. be conducive to this? Therefore, there was a decrease of one percentage point.) 22 1.3 GROWTH 1.4 BUSINESS 23
EMPLOYMENT GROWTH – There are many reasons why this difference comparison with their growth of employment DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN CBR may exist. The most important is that the within the area. This work continues, but 1.4 Business AND ONS BRES FIGURES corporate database covers only companies the closeness of the growth rates of local Employment has clearly grown strongly that are based in the area. This means that and total employment for companies in our across the area in recent years, however it ignores the employment in business units sample suggests that this is not the cause of one issue that has emerged is discrepancies and divisions of companies not based in the the difference. Even a brief survey of businesses in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area gives a clear between data gathered on businesses by area, self-employment and sole proprietorships impression of a vibrant, diverse, and unique business ecosystem. Specialised sectors range from the Centre for Business Research (CBR) at and much of public sector employment; and Therefore, we have created a weighted manufacturing to data science, agriculture to life sciences. As part of the review, businesses have Cambridge University and the UK Business it is possible that such employment is growth measure. This depends in places on been surveyed for their experiences operating in the area. This work is ongoing, but already Register and Employment Survey data (BRES) growing more slowly than the corporate ONS BRES figures (for industries which the a recurring message has emerged that local factors play a significant part in determining why compiled by the Office for National Statistics employment captured by the database. corporate database does not cover well) and many businesses are here (as opposed to mere convenience, or accident of origin). Over 50% (ONS). The work presented here is provisional in others on the corporate database (where of respondents so far have acknowledged proximity to local premises, local labour supply and and will be revised following discussions with Another possible reason is that part of the the ONS BRES figures don’t cover local the quality of the local environment as “important”, “very important” or “critically important”. ONS and as more data become available. employment captured by the corporate industries so well). The details of how this has A number, particularly businesses based around Cambridge, have indicated that, if they could database is employed outside the boundaries been done can be found in Appendix 1. not be based here, they would consider moving abroad to Europe, North America, and Over the past few years the CBR database of the local authority, even abroad. This has South-East Asia. Therefore, it will be necessary to think about what makes the economy of of all companies based within the Combined been analysed by surveying companies in the Having combined these measures, we still Cambridgeshire and Peterborough unique within the UK, and how this unique character can Authority has been indicating faster growth Cambridgeshire area to gather information find that growth rates are significantly higher be maintained, so that the significant contributions to national growth can continue. rates than those suggested by BRES data. about their total employment growth in than BRES data suggests: In order to assess this, the Review has carried out specific tests on two hypotheses about the local economy. The first is that the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area is special – that is, it contains significantly higher concentrations of particular industries than other areas of the UK. Table 2 – Comparison of employment growth for BRES data and The second is that a sizeable part of growth in the area is indigenous – that is, growth organically combined CBR and BRES data driven by native companies. This section also considers the role of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough economy in national and international perspective, and births of businesses in 6YRS GROWTH PER ANNUM COMPARISON WITH BRES 2010-2016 the area.
DISTRICT BRES DATA CBR/BRES DATA
Cambridge 2.3% 2.4% THE SPECIAL NATURE OF THE (CBR) unless otherwise indicated – this differs South Cambridgeshire 2.2% 3.8% CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND from BRES data, in that it only focuses on the East Cambridgeshire 3.8% 4.3% PETERBOROUGH ECONOMY corporate sector. The first four sectors – IT, Huntingdonshire 1.7% 2.2% The Review assesses the specialness of the Life sciences, High-tech manufacturing and KI Peterborough 2.3% 3.4% Cambridge economy by examining the key services are defined as Knowledge Intensive features characterising the corporate sectors Sectors. ‘KI services’ is short for Knowledge Fenland 2.6% 3.7% in the area. Intensive Services – i.e. services to the Cambridgeshire and 2.3% 3.3% knowledge intensive industry. At Appendix Peterborough To assess the specialness of industries in 2, we have included summaries of business each district, we use location quotients (often performance in each of the six districts, which shortened to LQs), a measure which shows includes other details of their ‘specialness’. the concentration of particular industries in In particular, South Cambridgeshire, We will continue to explore this topic for QUALITY OF GROWTH an area relative to a wider geography (in this The methodology used to derive these figures Peterborough and Fenland are all showing the final report. However, the importance CONSIDERATIONS case, the UK). For example, suppose 30% of stems from a database of companies that are significantly higher rates of employment of this should be noted, as BRES data are As a final note in this section, the Commission area X’s workers work in manufacturing, and based in the area – that is, their main base growth (1.6%, 1.1% and 1.1% differentials incorporated into the ONS methodology recognises that a desire for economic growth 15% of the UK’s workers do, this industry is is in each of these districts. It then considers respectively). Overall, we find growth to have for estimating GVA growth in the area. They is not simply a case of “growth for growth’s twice as ‘concentrated’ in area X as it is in the the total employment and turnover for these been 1% higher per annum than BRES data are combined with average earnings data to sake”, but for growth to be beneficial to UK, giving an employment LQ value of 30/15 companies. This may mean that figures don’t suggests, leading to a significant differential generate a measure of the Compensation of everyone in society. Various considerations = 2. You can also create LQ analysis for perfectly reflect the amount of turnover being over time. It is worth repeating that these Employees (COE), which is one of the main that touch on ‘inclusive growth’ are considered turnover values – suppose 5% of area Y’s generated locally, or the amount of people findings are provisional – and should not for elements of the income-based aspect of throughout the report, and the nature, as business turnover is in construction, whereas employed in a particular industry. (Note the now be taken as definitive. the GVA measure. Therefore, if employment well as quantum, of growth, will be discussed 20% of the UK’s turnover value is. Then you comment on Peterborough’s distribution LQs growth is understated, GVA growth is also in the context of the ongoing Cambridgeshire would have a turnover LQ of 5/20 = 0.25. Any below). This data is based on 2015-16 figures likely to have been understated. and Peterborough Futures work. values above 1 can be said to be “special”, – it will be brought up to date for the final and the greater a value is above 1, the more report, by conducting another data draw for special it will be. Any values less than 1 the whole of the UK. indicate that the industry is not a specialism for the area. Finally, values equal to one show We have also included location quotients that the concentration of turnover or according to the ONS (BRES) data as an appendix employment is the same as the UK as a whole. – see Appendix 3. Note that the BRES data uses sectors which are defined differently. All data referred to have been produced by Dr Andy Cosh at the Centre for Business Research 24 1.4 BUSINESS 1.4 BUSINESS 25
Figure 15 – Location quotients for Cambridge Figure 18 – Location quotients for Huntingdonshire
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Figure 19 – Location quotients for Peterborough
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Figure 20 – Location quotients for South Cambridgeshire
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CONCLUSION roughly 60% of the area’s workers and areas where agriculture is more dominant – Another finding is that, in most areas, the majority has been driven by homegrown time, to give an impression of how this The economy of Cambridgeshire and produce 68% of business turnover. Fenland has 82% in homegrown companies indigenous companies are growing faster firms, with growth rates over 3% higher in growth has occurred. To do this we have set Peterborough is far from ordinary. Real and East Cambridgeshire has 87%. Next than other companies – see figure 22. South Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. a base year of turnover as 100. specialisms exist in IT, life sciences, Companies are defined as ‘indigenous’ if they come South Cambridgeshire (74%) and Employment growth has been higher for manufacturing (both high-tech and standard) were either started in a district, or have been Cambridge (72%). The proportion of large these in all areas except Cambridge and We have shown this by modelling the per and primary sectors. This invites a bespoke based there for over 50 years. The proportion company employment in homegrown Fenland – especially so in Huntingdonshire annum CBR growth rates from the last six treatment which recognises its nationally (and of companies that are indigenous is largest in companies is much lower in Huntingdonshire (4.1% higher). In terms of turnover growth, years as if they were constant during this internationally) significant industries. Fenland (83%), then East Cambridgeshire (76%), (61%) and, particularly, in Peterborough (48%). Cambridge (72%), South Cambridgeshire (70%) and finally, Peterborough and Huntingdonshire There are differences, however, for the extent CambridgCambridge e EastEast Camb Cambs s THE INDIGENOUS NATURE OF THE (both 69%). to which turnover is generated by organically Figure 22 230– 230Stylised businessCambridgC ambridgturnovere e growth of all large and230 homegrown230 companiesEastEast Camb Cambs baseds in the six districts,
CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND grown local companies. This can be seen in 2010=100230230 230230 210210 210210 PETERBOROUGH ECONOMY The contrasts across the districts are far figure 21. (It should be remembered that CambridgCambridge e EastEast Camb Cambs s 210210 210210 The data presented here focuses on greater in terms of employment and turnover; these analyses exclude companies that have 190190 190190 230230 230230 and these two differ. The share of indigenous set up divisions, or trading units in these companies which are ‘large’ – i.e. have 50 or 190190 190190 170170 170170 more employees. These companies employ corporate employment is greatest in the districts, such as the logistics operations that 210210 210210 170170 170170 have been attracted to Peterborough). 150150 150150 190190 190190
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AGE, MARKET VALUE AND FOREIGN 1990, floated in 1998 and sold to Softbank for (53%) and East Cambridgeshire (51%) each We can also see that these births are leading Figure 23 – Births of businesses per 10,000 total population 2010-2016 $31bn in 2016. have over half of their large local companies to a greater number and spread of businesses OWNERSHIP OF LARGER COMPANIES 80.00 – INDIGENOUS AND IMPLANTS incorporated since then. Cambridge has across the area.
Many of the large companies based in the Cambridge has seven local companies listed 49%, South Cambridgeshire has 44%; and 70.00 Combined Authority area are not listed on on the London market with a combined value Peterborough has the oldest profile with 38% the stock market. Some of the companies of £3.4bn. South Cambridgeshire has thirteen of their large local companies incorporated 60.00 that started locally floated on the stock listed with a combined value of £6.4bn. East since 2000 and 32% before 1980. Cambridge market and were then acquired and lost their Cambridgeshire and Peterborough each have and South Cambridgeshire exhibit a golden 50.00 listing. Other companies were founded with three local companies with a combined value age of incorporations between 1981-89 with
total population 40.00 their HQ in the area, but with foreign of £142m and £90m respectively. Finally, 39% and 42% respectively. ownership from the start, so without a listing Huntingdonshire and Fenland have one listed 30.00 for the local company. Other large companies local company each with current market values Looking at the age profile of indigenous large Births of businesses per 10,000 have not sought to be listed. of £623m and £41m respectively. These companies across the districts, a similar pat- figures show that Cambridge and South tern emerges. Huntingdonshire, Fenland and 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 For example, Cambridge Antibody Technologies Cambridgeshire have continued to grow large East Cambridgeshire each have 57% of their Cambridge Huntingdonshire East Cambridgeshire was founded in 1989, floated in 1997 and companies that are taken to the market. homegrown companies incorporated since The maps below contrast the presence of then sold to AstraZeneca for £0.7bn in 2006; 2000. Cambridge has 53%, South business in 2010/11 and 2016/17 both in the South Cambridgeshire Fenland Peterborough Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area and Domino Printing Sciences was founded in Table 3 also shows the age composition of Cambridgeshire has 48% and Peterborough Source: ONS Business Demography. Note that this data refers to where businesses are registered, which may not correlate 1978, floated in 1985 and sold to Brother large companies and those that are locally has 42%. In each district they show a younger the wider LEP. directly to where its output is generated. Industries for £1bn in 2015; CSR was founded grown. Considering the proportion of all large age profile than all large local companies. companies that have been incorporated in 1998, floated in 2004 and sold to Qualcomm Figure 24 – Businesses across the area by number of employees, 2010/11 (left) and 2016/17 (right). since 2000, Huntingdonshire (54%), Fenland for $2.4bn in 2015; ARM was founded in Combined Authority area shown.
Table 3 – Market value, age and foreign ownership of large companies based in the six districts
MARKET VALUE MARCH INCORP INCORP INCORP INCORP 2016-17 % DISTRICT SAMPLE 2018 (£,000) PRE-1980 1981-99 2000-07 POST 2008 FOREIGN OWNED
Large 3,477,152 12% 39% 30% 19% 18% Cambridge Indigenous 3,425,788 12% 35% 31% 22% 8% Large 6,469,778 14% 42% 23% 21% 24% South Cambridgeshire Indigenous 6,368,834 14% 38% 24% 24% 9% Large 158,538 19% 30% 27% 24% 8% East Cambridgeshire Indigenous 141,677 14% 29% 25% 32% 0% Large 623,145 13% 32% 31% 23% 27% Huntingdonshire Indigenous 623,145 9% 34% 31% 26% 10% Large 89,652 32% 28% 18% 20% 19% Peterborough Indigenous 89,652 30% 28% 17% 25% 9% Large 41,373 17% 31% 28% 25% 6% Fenland Indigenous 41,373 20% 23% 27% 30% 0% NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES Source: Dr Andy Cosh, University of Cambridge Source: Dr Andy Cosh, University of Cambridge, 2018. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2018. Notes: Location of businesses in 2010/11 based on 2015/16 (where available) or 2015/16 address due to data availability.
Finally, the proportion of large companies APPLICATION OF THE CBR DATABASE around location, quality, and quantity of that are foreign-owned today is shown in the TO PLANNING housing. By letting business lead, rather than BUSINESS CULTURE final column of table 3. Fenland (6%) and East The development of the CBR databases of follow, the planning process, it is possible to A distinctive feature of the Cambridge/South Currently, this pattern of business networks Key Question: How can Cambridgeshire (8%) have the lowest businesses across the area allows those who design Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to Cambridgeshire business environment is the is not replicated across the area. However, proportions of foreign ownership of their plan for the future of the area to take a much be more business-ready. large number of business networks that exist. Peterborough City Council’s response to the we create the conditions large companies. The highest proportion more business and employment-focussed These include the Cambridge Network, consultation on this report states that: required for the of foreign ownership is in Huntingdonshire approach to growth. This is because it enables THE GROWTH OF BUSINESS Cambridge Wireless (for technology (27%), followed by South Cambridgeshire authorities to know exactly which businesses The number of business births is a useful businesses), One Nucleus (for life sciences), Discussions with industry have revealed development of sectors (24%), Peterborough (19%) and Cambridge are employing people, rather than having indicator for the vibrancy of the local economy. Cambridge Clean Tech, Agri-Tech East, and that the development of Manufacturing which will provide long Association would particularly help drive (18%). As expected, the proportion of to rely on high-level statistics, which may Figure 23 shows how these figures have an innumerable amount of other networks, term resilience for the homegrown companies that are now foreign be retrospectively adjusted over time. This changed between 2010 and 2016. meetups and groups prevalent in the area. productivity growth within that sector. -owned is much lower. Fenland and East can drive informed planning of commercial Encouragingly, all of the districts have seen These networks have grown alongside the local economy? What role Cambridgeshire have none and the other premises, designed to match the demands the rate of business births increase. Most ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’ and have been There may be, therefore, opportunities should industrial policy four districts have between 8% and 10%. of specific companies, and therefore with striking is Peterborough, where this has more decisive in its success. They support new for other parts of the area to improve the confidence in the number of jobs this will than doubled from 32.2 (per 10,000 companies by providing access to expertise generation of high-quality local businesses by play in this? generate. This in turn can inform decisions population) in 2010 to 65.5 in 2016. and opportunities for collaboration. establishing or fostering these networks. 30 1.5 HUMAN CAPITAL 1.5 HUMAN CAPITAL 31
1.5 Human Capital ORGANIC GROWTH OF SKILLS: EXAMINING THE LOCAL EDUCATION SYSTEM The term ‘human capital’ refers to “individuals’ skills, knowledge, abilities, social attributes, One very important element of this is Figure 26 – % of Pupils achieving 5 A*s – C, personality and health attributes. These factors enable individuals to work, and therefore developing the skills profile of the native including English and Maths, at GCSE produce something of economic value”15. Human capital is a critical factor in economic population. Particularly in areas that have 80 production. One local government official consulted during this review stated that: “human fallen behind, it is difficult to encourage highly capital is where the biggest potential for this area is”. In this review we chosen to focus on skills skilled people into the area, as there are and health in particular. unlikely to be large numbers of highly skilled 70 jobs. It is also possible that high skill levels in SKILLS held by individuals. Figure 25 shows that to the south of the county may be driven more by 60 In a Centre for Cities study which considered the north and east of the county, there is a individuals moving in than the development of local youngsters, meaning that high skill levels the economic progression of every UK city higher prevalence of individuals holding no 50 from 1901 until 2011, it was concluded that qualifications – particularly in Peterborough, are disguising local educational shortcomings. “skills are the most important factor at 13.6%. This is as low as 2.2% in South 40 determining long-run urban success”16. Cambridgeshire. At the top end, there are also Educational outcomes across the county Recent publicity around the slow growth of big differences – unsurprisingly, Cambridge are variable. Data produced at a higher-tier productivity in the UK has drawn attention to has the highest proportion of individuals with authority level suggests Cambridgeshire is 30 the extent to which a dearth of skills in a wide NVQ4+ or equivalent qualifications, due to its generally ahead of the England and East of 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 range of disciplines is hindering the UK’s large academic population, followed by South England averages on various measures, while Peterborough-5 A*-C GCSE (KS4 - E&M) East of England-5 A*-C GCSE (KS4 - E&M) Cambridgeshire (52.1%). Fenland performs Peterborough is behind (see figure 26). competitiveness and growth. The government England-5 A*-C GCSE (KS4 - E&M) Cambridgeshire-5 A*-C GCSE (KS4 - E&M) has rethought its approach to adult skills 80.00%particularly poorly on this measure – only £800.00 Fenland and East Cambridgeshire have been Source: Department for Education recently and plans to bring in new T-levels 20.7% of its population have this level of 80.00% £800.00 designated a Social Mobility Opportunity Area. (technical skills qualifications) shortly. One 70.00%qualification. £700.00 This follows work from the Social Mobility of the four key recommendations from the 70.00% £700.00 £600.00 Commission to assess the prospects of recent Made Smarter Review into how the UK 60.00%The link to earnings for individuals can be disadvantaged young people from every could seize the opportunity of the digitisation clearly seen. Across the districts there is a 60.00% £600.00 50.00% £500.00 council area in the UK. These councils were of industry is “Upskill a million industrial strong positive correlation (0.66) between then ranked – in the most recent analysis, workers to enable digital technologies to be rates of NVQ4 + qualifications and earnings,50.00% £500.00 40.00% £400.00 East Cambridgeshire and Fenland ranked successfully exploited”17. As disruptive and a very strong negative correlation (-0.88) st 18 40.00% 241 and 308th out£400.00 of 324 respectively (this technologies continue to transform our between rates of individuals with no 30.00% £300.00 an improvement on 2016’s scores of 311st workplaces, sectors, and outputs, those areas qualifications and earnings. There is therefore 30.00% and 319th respectively).£300.00 The delivery plan for which have the workforces to successfully 20.00%a strong priori reason to conclude that one of £200.00 the opportunity area has four priorities, one integrate them into production will succeed. the main foci for improving economic outcomes, 20.00% of which is to focus£200.00 on raising the aspirations 10.00%particularly in areas where they may be falling £100.00 of young people regarding their final careers. Within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, behind, is to improve skill levels. £100.00 10.00% Lacking aspiration is something which was there are large differences in qualifications 0.00% £0.00
C&P noted as a problem by some councillors £0.00 0.00%Fenland Cambridge East Cambs during consultation. Figure 25 – Proportions of individuals aged 16-64 with no qualifications C&P South Cambs Peterborough Huntingdonshire Fenland Cambridge East Cambs and with NVQ4+ qualification of equivalent; mean gross weekly pay South Cambs Peterborough Huntingdonshire Other key actions include increasing teacher 80.00% £800.00 16-64 year olds with no qualifications (%)16-64 year olds with NVQ4+ or equivalent (%) numbers. The struggle to recruit and retain Mean gross weekly pay (£) 16-64 year olds with no qualifications (%)16-64 year olds with NVQ4+teachers or equivalenthas been (%)recognised as an 70.00% £700.00 increasingly acute problem right across the Mean gross weekly pay (£) area. In a report by RAND Europe, it was 60.00% £600.00 noted that “teacher shortages are a real 19 50.00% £500.00 threat for Cambridgeshire” . Various causes for this were identified. One was that in
40.00% £400.00 general, teachers in Cambridgeshire are paid less than the national average, with a pay 30.00% £300.00 distribution that is more skewed towards lower values. Additionally, expensive housing £200.00 20.00% in some parts of the area and a larger than Key Question: Where does the education system most average proportion of jobs being part-time £100.00 10.00% may be deterring teachers from beginning need attention? How conducive is the wider environment their career in Cambridgeshire. At the same 0.00% £0.00 (including early years schooling) to helping young people s e s h time, there are higher rates of retirees than C&P Fenland the national average, diminishing the overall develop necessary skills? Cambridge East Camb South Camb Peterboroug Huntingdonshir population of teachers. Source: Annual Population Survey; ONS Jan-Dec 2016, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) ONS 2016
15 16 17 18 19 Human Capital16-64 Estimates year olds – Officewith no qualificationsfor National Statistics (%)1 Centre6-64 for year Cities: olds City with Outlook NVQ4+ 1901 or equivalent Made (%) Smarter. Review 2017 Social Mobility Index 2017 RAND: Attracting and retaining teachers in Cambridgeshire, 20
Mean gross weekly pay (£) 32 1.5 HUMAN CAPITAL 1.5 HUMAN CAPITAL 33
There are many encouraging signs that the area that it is “a rapidly improving school… Over HEALTH These discrepancies can be seen most Figure 27 – Healthy life expectancy for males (top) and is responding to the challenge of improving the last year, new leaders have introduced Promoting health and wellbeing for all raises strikingly when life expectancy is considered. females (bottom) across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough provision of education and skills. Examples of policies and procedures which are beginning employment, reduces child poverty and The maps in figure 27 show healthy life this include: to have impact”20. The sixth form is also noted poverty later in life, and raises growth in expectancy rates – that is the number of as being good, giving confidence that school productivity. According to one report22, which years a person can expect to live in good iMET at Alconbury Weald leavers will have useful skills for work. measures the number of ‘impairment days’ health – for males and females, with darker iMET – which stands for Innovation, where productivity is reduced for health blues showing worse outcomes, and the Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology – Plans for a Peterborough reasons, the least healthy 20% of employees green/amber/red dots showing whether these is a new educational institution that will open University generate 45.4 impairment days for their are significantly better, roughly the same, or its doors in September 2018. A collaboration Peterborough is the largest urban centre companies. significantly worse than English averages. between Cambridge Regional College and in the UK without its own university. This Peterborough Regional College, it will have means that many young people leave the city High levels of ill health cause staff absence, Concerningly, in some areas the healthy life a business-focused approach to its skills to go on to higher education, and that the which has costs for business. What is being expectancy age is below the pension age, training and is working with local businesses perception of the city is damaged. The council increasingly recognised is that employers face meaning poor health has a direct impact to develop its curriculum. This will cover a wide is now driving forward plans for a University. significant costs due to presenteeism – upon the supply of labour to the economy. range of disciplines, including engineering, Thought is being given to how Peterborough employees being at work but unable to construction, manufacturing, life sciences, University can find a ‘niche’ where it is function to maximum capacity because of the The Commission will continue to explore and IT and digital technologies. especially strong, similar to Loughborough work environment, poor managerial relations, these themes to understand how they are University, which has established itself as or unsupported poor health. Thought to impinging upon economic success for all The Thomas Clarkson Academy, a centre of Sports Science expertise. This be an even greater problem than sickness across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Wisbech offer will be business-focused, creating a absence, presenteeism affects business The Thomas Clarkson Academy has gone path where high-achieving young people can performance on productivity, quality and safety. through a difficult period with poor results and pursue an academic education and go on to It is often concealed and unrecognised, mostly recommendations from Ofsted to improve. stimulating work while remaining in revealed through workforce surveys, and Key Question: Where can Some parents from Wisbech would send Peterborough. difficult to measure objectively. children out of the county to Lincolnshire and we see poor health Norfolk for a better education, and staffing It is also encouraging to note that in Fenland The direction of causality, between good outcomes affecting was often temporary. However, matters have and East Cambridgeshire, there is a higher health and good work, is not one-way. There is recently improved – with better facilities, a than average level of apprenticeship take-up; also clear evidence to show that being in work productivity? Which completed first year with full staffing, and however, there are currently no degree-level can positively impact health. Employment (so businesses are exemplars leadership driving towards improved results. apprenticeships on offer in the area21. long as it is of sufficient quality and security) The most recent report from Ofsted concluded can provide an important source of income, at improving health social contact and a core role, identity and outcomes for employees? purpose. On the other hand, unemployment is How can lower life Key Question: What specialisms should the planned new associated with an increased risk of mortality and morbidity, including limiting illness, expectancy outcomes university at Peterborough focus on? cardiovascular disease, poor mental health, be improved? suicide and health-damaging behaviours.
Clearly, within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, there are health issues which weigh on productivity. In particular, research has shown how districts with worse economic outcomes tend to have worse health outcomes. Almost two-thirds of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough adults carry excess weight, with higher levels than found nationally in East Cambridgeshire and Fenland. Peterborough and Fenland have significantly higher levels of obesity in those aged 18 and over than found nationally. While adult smoking across the area is around the national average, it is higher in Fenland. “Levels of disability and general ill-health are generally low in Cambridgeshire but are higher in Peterborough and also the Cambridgeshire district of Fenland”23. There are some areas where the trends are different – self-harm, for instance, is notably higher in Cambridge City.
Source: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Public Health Intelligence Team
20Ofsted report, 1st November 2017. 21Fenland and East Cambridgeshire Opportunity Area Delivery Plan. 22Britain’s Healthiest Workplace, Vitality Health 23Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Core Dataset 2018. 34 1.6 CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH FUTURES 1.6 CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH FUTURES 35
Figure 28 – Cambridgeshire and Peterborough yearly employment growth rates – Actual, and projected
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0.0% 1981-1991 1991-2001 2001-2011 2011-20212021-2031 2031-2041 2041-2051 As previously noted, Cambridge Futures was housing beyond that proposed in the plans, capturing the average number of people the name given to a collaborative exercise although it includes the build out of the living in each area relative to the number of Census Local plans Local Plan extrapolation conducted at the turn of the 21st century, remainder of the planned new settlements. dwellings), rents, and commuter numbers. Lower bound Central Projection Upper bound when Cambridge was trying to decide what This raises some challenges for the area, as The main horizons for the model are 2021, Source: Dr Ying Jin, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge sort of city it wanted to be. This examined will be clear. In the final report we will analyse 2031, 2041 and 2051. different options for development in five scenarios for the future of the area, using Cambridge and framed the ensuing debate. the model to discover the likely outcomes The model is driven by employment growth. arising. This will inform recommendations As the number of employees grows, the The creation of the Cambridgeshire and from the Commission about how development demand for housing, and the pressure on Peterborough Independent Economic Review should be carried out, and what infrastructure transport systems will increase. The model As an early indication of where the area may need to adjust for this The corresponding effect on number of employed persons is shown makes this an apposite time to extend this is likely to be needed to position the area well is run for four possible employment growth growth, the rates of employment growth anticipated in local plans are below: work to the wider area of the Combined in future. scenarios: lower than the lower bound of our projections. The gap is particularly Authority and help bring the Cambridge work 1. Local land use plans – to create land use wide if the 2010-15 growth trends continue. up to date. The economy has evolved, and plans, councils make assumptions as as already noted, pressures in areas such HOW IT WORKS: THE MODEL to how employment will grow. This run as housing and congestion are much more The model which drives the analysis is an captures these assumptions, with an visible than at the time of the original study. advanced land use and transport model. It extrapolation to 2051. Further, the city of Cambridge does not exist incorporates the prices, rents, environmental 2. Employment Growth – lower bound. This Figure 29 – Employment projections for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough – 000’s of people in a vacuum; and there are clearly knock amenity and consumer wellbeing of different projection is a continuation of the 1,400 on effects across districts according to how locations to predict the demand from 1981-2016 trend of employment growth, development occurs. residents and businesses to be in a certain which therefore does not give special 1,200 area. The philosophy that underlies the weight to more recent high-levels of The Commission also hopes that this work model remains the same from the previous employment growth. will help people to think about the future they Cambridge Futures modelling, but it has been 3. Employment Growth – upper bound. 1,000 desire for their locality. It is to empower people updated in almost every aspect to include This projection is a continuation of the by showing realistic options that can be more sophisticated behavioural assumptions. 2010-2015 employment growth trends 800 taken. It is to help people understand where The basic modelling approach used for this according to recent CBR data. there are trade-offs and encourage informed model was recently subject to an Impact Case 4. Employment Growth – central projection. 600 debate between those with different Study by the UK’s Research Excellence In recognition that recent growth rates perspectives. Lastly, it should encourage Framework 2014, in which it was noted that: have been exceptional (and have been citizens from different parts of the area to “[it] has been used extensively by the UK accelerated by construction of new 400 consider their future together, recognising Government in LASER (London And South science parks and premises) this run themselves as part of a broader network, East Area) model for London Crossrail, models, at first, continuation of recent 200 where success of the whole can entail Thames Gateway, Congestion Charging, and CBR growth rates, but then a gradual success for all. has become the core of the DfT National return to long term ONS growth rates. 0 Transport Model.”24 1981 1991 2001 2011 2021 2031 2041 2051 For this, the interim report, we only set out the INITIAL FINDINGS Census Local plans Local Plan extrapolation ‘base case’ of what we expect to happen given The model is conditioned under the The different employment growth rates Lower bound Central Projection Upper bound current development in Cambridgeshire and assumption of development as currently implied by these scenarios are shown in Peterborough, taking account of proposals planned. The model’s outputs are wages, figure 28. Source: Dr Ying Jin, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge in local plans, produced by councils. For this business costs, household numbers, ‘base case’ the modelling assumes no further household occupancy rates (an index
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HOUSING RENTS as demonstrated by the congestion effects FUTURE WORK The research so far suggests that in Cambridge, on the Nene Parkway after a move of a In the final report, we will examine how South Cambridgeshire, and East Cambridgeshire, headquarters office within the city. alternative approaches to the development of should recent high employment growth Cambridgeshire and Peterborough could lead continue, the effect of rising rents will be to different results. The five scenarios we are significant. If this is correct, local plans WAGES going to look at are designed as distinct options will need to take account of the available It follows that, if house prices and rents for the purposes of informing the debate: evidence of population growth and housing increase in some areas, and heavier Perspectives On need as they are refreshed in the coming years. commuting leads to extra delays, the wages •Densification – where new jobs and demanded by workers to compensate for these housing are delivered in existing urban difficulties would increase in those areas. The areas, particularly around fast public The Future Of COMMUTING work done so far suggests this would be transit hubs Another impact of increasing employment particularly acute in Cambridge, South numbers is that the weight of commuting is Cambridgeshire and East Cambridgeshire. •Fringe Growth – where development forecast to worsen, especially in Cambridge. spreads outwards from current sites in Cambridgeshire This is due in part to a mismatch between high-demand locations where housing is expected to develop (in INITIAL CONCLUSION general, more to the north of the city, where Based on the preliminary analysis, it seems •Dispersal – where development happens and Peterborough there are brownfield sites) and where jobs that Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire away from the two cities and the current are expected to be on offer (as shown by will be unable to maintain their present suburban growth spots in South growth in business floorspace, which is growth given current infrastructure and Cambridgeshire forecast to be evenly spread around the city). housing plans, and we see this start tailing off as house prices, office rents, and congestion •Transport Corridors – where development If that is correct, the result would be that make the area too costly a place to live and is planned as clusters along key public more people will commute across Cambridge, do business. This is not a criticism of local transport corridors making an already bad problem worse. If plans – indeed, these have been recognised employment grows at the rates envisaged as relatively very proactive. Rather, it is •Deeper Digital Transformations – where by the local plans, by 2031 there will be 32% brought about by the unusually high rates of autonomous vehicles as well as more 2.1 Introduction more in-commuters in 2031 than in 2011. local growth. The other parts of the area do not flexible work patterns lead to alterations in However, if employment growth continues at seem to face a strain that is as systematic, but demand for housing, business premises, recent high rates, this could be as much as strains and bottlenecks may emerge as they and transport 82%. It seems unlikely that the current face growing pressures. In the previous section of this report we set out does – what peoples’ understanding is of transport system could sustain these levels. These scenarios will guide the Commission in a summary of the wealth of data and analysis what is driving change and how it manifests All else remaining equal, this would suggest understanding what approaches may work available to us on the economy. But the Terms itself. The way Cambridgeshire and The modelling has not at this stage tested that the Combined Authority’s target of nearly well, or less well, in the shaping of the of Reference require the Commission to take Peterborough is growing presents a range specific transport improvement as schemes doubling GVA will be at risk, as the largest Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area, a view on a range of policy issues more of opportunities, but in our view it also poses or projects. Instead, the model has assumed economy is expected to start to falter in the helping it make informed and objective wide-ranging than can be captured by data. The some very particular challenges. It is important that transport improvements and travel foreseeable future. In the final report we will conclusions in its final report. Commission’s approach is evidential wherever that we take stock not just of what these are demand management measures will be in look at the kinds of approach to development possible, but we must also listen to the views of but of the plans and policies in place or under place to maintain the current average speeds that will be required to prevent this from the people of the area, its businesses and local development to understand where of travel door to door. happening. Alongside taking steps to raise and other public authorities. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough stands on the growth potential of other areas of these issues and to help us frame our response. In the other main city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, it will be The data presented in previous sections population growth could put considerable strain necessary to invest in the infrastructure of make it plain that all of Cambridgeshire and This section sets out a summary of what we on the road network, especially at junctions e.g. the main current economic driver of the area. Peterborough is growing, though different have seen and heard over recent months historic trajectories have meant some areas from the people and businesses as well as are working from a much lower base. The the local and other public authorities of ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’ has delivered Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Here we consistently strong levels of growth for use the more than fifty responses to the call decades in the south of the area, but the for evidence we issued in January as well as industries which have driven this haven’t the findings from the roadshow we undertook spread to the north in significant measure. In in February and March, talking with the this sense, it could be argued Cambridgeshire leadership of each Local Authority, a and Peterborough acts as a microcosm of discussion with the Combined Authority Mayor the UK as a whole in that it is growing, but in and with a range of other organisations and some senses growing apart as well as individuals. together. To fulfil the terms of reference for the Review, therefore, the Commission needed The key issues are set out below grouped to understand the extent to which around a series of themes, starting with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough itself very nature of the economy of Cambridgeshire agrees with this view and – to the extent it and Peterborough itself. 38 2.2 THE ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH AND THE NATURE OF GROWTH 2.2 THE ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH AND THE NATURE OF GROWTH 39
Cambridgeshire cluster will not be replicable around the area – it is the very proximity to expertise that means businesses will pay extremely high rents to be there, and this is self-perpetuating. However, this cluster has many business needs which do not need to be serviced from “next-door” but could still helpfully be served from nearby. These include resources, materials, and back office services. In some areas there are good examples – for instance, Huntingdon’s production of composites. In order to seize these opportunities, though, it is necessary that there are sufficient ‘intermediate-level’ 2.2 The Economic Geography of skills – not at the level of expertise needed for Cambridge’s advanced research, but sufficient to create the sophisticated products and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough services that these industries require. and the Nature of Growth There is one further notable aspect of economic geography. This review concerns Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Whether in recognition of wider economic linkages or As the data considered earlier established, economic growth within those towns and Peterborough’s market towns. Successful otherwise, a range of responses make clear there is a clear finding from consultation that provide residents with greater economic communities are a prerequisite for this the linkages outside the review area. The fens Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is far from opportunities. Public transport between success, and would surely flow from it, but stretch for miles beyond Cambridgeshire, being one area. To create a series of foci for Peterborough and the surrounding towns, choosing the right infrastructure programmes while Peterborough still stands as a vital analysis and policy, we think it is best to look at and between those towns, is poor, is important. A sense of prioritisation will be gateway between East Anglia and the Midlands the area broadly as three sub-areas: particularly in Fenland. This not only limits needed if the economic geography is to be and the views of many in Cambridge is that it Peterborough, the fens and the wider options for residents on low incomes but developed in an affordable and timely is integrating more into a wider South Eastern Cambridge area. There is no evidence for a can act as a barrier to education for young manner, while there are finite limits on the economy. We therefore need to bear in mind contrary view in the consultation, even if the people wishing to take advantage of power of planners and politicians to foster that not every solution to the challenges or precise identities we have sought to define Further and Higher Education Provision. successful communities. opportunities of different parts of the area are more implicit than clearly explicit in the lie within it. Indeed, in some cases the costs responses and discussions. What is more Or, in the response from the Citizens Advice The clear view from the consultation, including of doing so may already be prohibitively high interesting is how respondents to the survey Bureau in relation to the need for inclusive comments from AstraZeneca, Anglian Water compared to alternatives. Similarly, several of the understand these differences. The University growth: and Cambridge Innovation Capital and from Cambridge responses made clear that, whilst of Cambridge commented: our various meetings, is that there is the the benefits of technological development in New housing development and expansion potential for benefits to flow across the Cambridge are applicable to the area, many of Given the complementary strengths of of existing communities are an essential area, but that the factors that make different the economic linkages from the city are already Peterborough and surrounding rural element in raising economic growth. parts of the area successful are very specific with other research centres, in Oxford, London economies such as that in Fenland, However, the recent emphasis on creating indeed. In our view, with the likely limited or northern cities and further afield. Cambridgeshire as a whole is therefore the hard infrastructure (the houses, roads resources at play in the area, a careful well poised to play a crucial role in local, etc) without also focusing, at the outset, on analysis of relative priorities will be needed regional, and national priorities. It has the the need for accompanying soft if public and private investment in transport potential to lead on the grand challenges infrastructure has certainly led to problems. and other measures is to turn the potential of of the industrial strategy, such as those Families and lone parents can find Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s economic focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, themselves in large new estates, isolated, linkages into reality. and Clean Energy – all of which already often with difficult or expensive public have a significant footprint in the transport. The soft infrastructure, creating Similarly, the challenge of inclusive growth is Cambridge ecosystem. community groups, providing access to one with which the whole country is wrestling. advice must be included from the outset and Are growth and inclusion in tension, or can This response typifies the sense of optimism we can help in that process, particularly if we they be complementary? Increased interest in on the possibilities for the Cambridgeshire are involved early in the planning of future inclusive growth has stemmed from the and Peterborough area. This has been developments. observation that large parts of the UK have couched in terms of the possibilities of not felt the benefits of growth. The transport connectivity, as in Peterborough, The suggestions for what is needed are Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area is no as the City Council noted: necessarily couched, either explicitly or exception. The first question is whether this is implicitly, in the conditional. Transport inevitable – i.e. is exclusion the price we pay Improved connectivity to surrounding investment is vital to sustain, and in some for growth? On the one hand, it seems some market towns would help to boost cases to create, vitality in Cambridgeshire and aspects of the Cambridge/South 40 2.3 THE ROLE AND SCOPE OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY 2.3 THE ROLE AND SCOPE OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY 41
asked: is this a valid approach to Cambridgeshire not impossible in many cases), to influence in for business. This ranges from having large sites and Peterborough, what are the opportunities the short term. Businesses locate where they with specialised technical equipment down to and barriers in the area, and how can we start choose to for a variety of reasons, some of the smallest incubators, so that location decisions to identify the approach that will work best? which relate to the proximity of other which could lead to the loss of business are important factors such as research and not aided by lack of available, affordable and In our view, this general approach is valid talent. In some cases they are simply a matter suitable accommodation. (though we would welcome views). We intend of history that cannot be circumnavigated. it to underpin our work in the months ahead. The responses to the consultation on this issue Emerging from the consultation responses were interesting. In some areas, particularly and our meetings, a series of themes emerge. CREATING THE RIGHT CONDITIONS Huntingdonshire, there was a very clear EVERYWHERE analysis of what is needed and of some of Over time, the objective of Cambridgeshire the potential problems given current market 2.3 The Role and Scope EXCELLENCE THROUGHOUT and Peterborough must be to create the conditions. In terms of need: CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND conditions across the area such that PETERBOROUGH businesses will tend to choose to locate their Identifying, planning to accommodate of Industrial Policy There is excellence throughout the activities on a more geographically distributed and supporting the development of new Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area. basis. In the paragraphs below, we consider opportunities including Industry 4.0. This Though it may no longer be the largest some of these vitally important factors such involves de-globalisation, on-shoring of employer in Peterborough, Perkins Engines, as transport, skills and housing. suppliers (Cooke, 2018) and means it’s now a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc, remains critical that sufficient commercial space is The best companies in Cambridgeshire and sustained weaknesses. The government one of the leading manufacturers of diesel The question for industrial policy is what it can made available in proximity to Cambridge Peterborough are some of the best in the should commit to addressing all of the and gas engines in the world. do to add to the general policy interventions to allow for Industry 4.0, pioneers in world. There is an enviable foundation to build weaknesses through strategic economic to catalyse the process of change. ‘crossover’ innovation 4.0 platforms and on to enable every part of the area to fulfil its management. On a smaller scale, but of great interest to the suppliers to co-locate. Market pressure on potential. The Combined Authority, supported Commission, is Stainless Metalcraft Ltd based commercial land allocations for distribution by the Local and other public Authorities will •The new industrial strategy must be in Chatteris in Fenland. It has won awards for EXISTING INITIATIVES and warehousing should be resisted to have to forge a new approach to achieving designed with a comprehensive its work investing in the skills of its workforce The legacy of Regional Development Agency ensure sufficient capacity for the this, with and for the benefit of the businesses understanding of the state’s unique powers to develop cutting edge products for the and local investment over recent years is development of Industry 4.0 automated and people of the area. One of the most of coordination and convening, and its nuclear, health and technology industries, seen throughout the area through the active manufacturing processes which in many important roles of the Commission in our view ability to pool risk, create markets and including making parts for the Large Hadron engagement of businesses in every sector in cases will be space consumptive, but low is to frame what this approach should look like. provide public goods. Collider at CERN. SpiroTech SRD, an a variety of different institutions and policy job density, so will not bring additional engineering company specialising in the bulk initiatives aimed at improving economic pressure to housing demand. Views on the role and nature of Industrial •Comprising a long-term and viable indus handling industry, is a shining example of a performance. Some of these are highly local Policy in the UK are changing. Decades in trial policy framework, the strategy should local company which has gone from strength such as the Cambridge Centre for Science Both in the Huntingdonshire response and which liberal market policy have been the be built on seven foundational themes: to strength, with a 40,000 square foot factory and Policy, some of them are pan-regional in the St. Neots Masterplan there is clear main, if not sole, basis of policy are giving way a new institutional framework; place; in Sawtry, and now a further division in York. such as the National Centre for Food concern about the need for planning policy to very different views across the political science, research and innovation; Hotel Chocolat is based a road’s width Manufacturing in Lincolnshire, which serves to ensure that economic capacity is not lost spectrum, with a reappraisal of the role of competition policy; investment; skills and outside the Cambridgeshire area in Royston. the whole of the agriculture sector. Many, both to distribution as above, and, as government. Most relevantly, the Government’s the state’s regulating and purchasing power. Nonetheless its entire manufacturing particularly those in Cambridge related to discussed in the St. Neots Masterplan, under recently released Industrial Strategy25 sets out operations take place just outside Huntingdon, academic-related business spin outs, are the weight of pressure for housing development a new and more ambitious agenda for •The UK needs significant cultural change with its distribution centre at St Neots. Of national or international in orientation. via changes to the Permitted Development Rights purposeful action based on strong partnership in policymaking so that the new industrial course, the major generator of wealth in the These nationally funded and internationally introduced in 2017. These allow for the between the private and public sectors. strategy does not become paralysed by area is the Cambridge and the southern part renowned bodies include the Babraham conversion of light industrial to residential Cambridgeshire and Peterborough must risk aversion and short-termism. of the area with its world-class clusters of Institute and One Nucleus. We were use without planning permission: capitalise on this. bioscience, pharmaceutical and technological interested to find out how much of this kind •The new industrial strategy should companies. of activity is state-funded and how much is A concern is the substantial market pressure Members of the CPIEC were involved in the embrace technological change and seek the product of entrepreneurs leading the aimed at conversion of commercial and recent national Industrial Strategy Commission26 to capture the benefits, but a critical development of skills, innovation or other industrial land use to residential. For and, as we approached the consultation with perspective to occasionally overstated SPECIFICITY industry developing activity. The pattern is example, a 2.6ha industrial property on local partners, we had its approach to industrial claims is always necessary. It should The research findings considered earlier not wholly clear, but suffice it to say that Cromwell Road in the primarily industrial strategy in our minds. It set out seven strategic recognise the state’s essential role in sought to establish how specific the nature of there is considerable existing private sector area is being marketed as potential goals which are consistent with but range driving technological innovation, and focus growth in the Cambridgeshire and activity and engagement. We are interested residential development. To limit more widely than the Government’s approach: on diffusion, as much as disruption. Peterborough economy is: how rooted it is in in finding further examples of excellence, manufacturing loss and therefore a stalling the places where it occurs as well as how far particularly those that can be scaled up. of the Masterplan for Growth, a review of •Industrial strategy should be understood •A new strategy should have an ambition to it is genuinely additional to the UK economy. the St Neots Neighbourhood plan should as a broad and non-partisan commitment achieve positive outcomes and make material be carried out to examine how it can help to strategic management of the economy. differences to people’s everyday lives, and The consultation we have undertaken tends GETTING THE BASICS RIGHT: to protect the existing industrial land and not confine itself to a few ‘sector deals’. to support quite strongly the view that the THE EXAMPLE OF BUSINESS buildings during a period of stabilisation, •The UK economy has many strengths and location decisions of businesses across the PREMISES AND FINANCE growth and transformation. areas of opportunity, but the reality must As we have assessed the feedback from the area, including all those listed above, are One of the most basic issues in industrial be accepted that it also contains many consultation and our other meetings, we have highly specific to their needs and difficult (if policy is the provision of sites and premises
25https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/664563/industrial-strategy-white-paper-web-ready-version.pdf 26http://industrialstrategycommission.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/The-Final-Report-of-the-Industrial-Strategy-Commission.pdf Quote taken from P4. 42 2.3 THE ROLE AND SCOPE OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY 2.4 THE SOCIAL INCLUSION DIMENSION TO GROWTH 43
These issues are undoubtedly found If this analysis is correct, a point on which we NEW IDEAS: EXISTING AND elsewhere in Cambridge and Peterborough, would welcome views, this would be POTENTIAL though no other respondee raised the issue. illustrative of what is found elsewhere in the We were encouraged that in the responses What the consultation did highlight was a country in that there is a lack of clear to the consultation there were interesting potential lack of analysis on the state of the evidence of the supply and demand for and potentially important suggestions for market and the availability of suitable business premises or a programme to industrial policy initiatives which could help premises. Within the Cambridge area one ensure that needs are met appropriately in to stimulate the private sector growth. These 2.4 The Social Inclusion response argued as follows: every part of the area. More positively, the included the suggestion from Stainless new Enterprise Campus at Alconbury Weald Metalcraft Ltd for an advanced Dimension to Growth We have the space to accommodate was noted, which will be accompanied by its manufacturing centre in Fenland. We would expansion and the international own station, and offer 100% business rate be interested to know more about the connections to be the global hub for ideas, discounts and superfast broadband to proposals for Technology Institutes which research and innovation. companies which establish themselves there. came from Cambridge University Health This is a positive example of rising to the Partners, and would be particularly interested Another, also in Cambridge, noted that there is a: challenge of providing modern and flexible to talk further with Peterborough about the The need for inclusive growth has assumed particular importance over recent years particularly working space for business. idea for a Manufacturing Association, in light of the Brexit referendum and the sense that some places and people have been “left Shortage of office and incubator space. particularly if it were to help local and regional behind” in the way the economy has grown. The East of England currently has fewer There was very little reference to finance manufacturers to improve productivity and incubators per 1000 new businesses than for business in the consultation responses achieve excellence. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is far from immune from this problem. As the Police and any other UK area - lack of available office indicative of a sense that this isn’t a burning Crime Commissioner says in his submission: space has pushed up commercial prices issue at present for the private sector in the for following companies by almost two Combined Authority area. Here too, views Any economic strategy needs to clearly incorporate people and place, making sure that any thirds since 2007. would be welcome, especially with regard to policies do not have the unintended consequences of excluding populations or worsening start-ups of high-tech firms. inequalities. As the response from Peterborough City Council argues similarly to the latter point, The Police and Crime Commissioner, along with other respondents, cites the Centre for Cities the balance of argument is probably with Key Question: How much is a Outlook 2018 which, as in 2017, found Cambridge to be the most unequal city in the UK.27 there being a lack of potential space as this is lack of available premises something that is also felt in that city, as set out in the Peterborough response: hindering business growth? Key Question: How can Cambridge lose its unwanted Similarly, is access to finance A major factor constricting business growth accolade of being the most unequal city in the UK? a significant problem? is the lack of availability of good quality How can we tackle inequality and deprivation across the serviced offices and grow on space. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area?
The Citizens Advice Bureau response notes The health data considered in Section 1 that investment in development in places can highlight the extent of these issues and how often overlook their social needs and the need disproportionally they affect not just the for communities to remake themselves in new individuals and families concerned but the developments if the ill-health-inducing effects whole character and sense of wellbeing of the of isolation and lower levels of social capital places where they are concentrated. These are to be avoided. Public Health England issues are of great importance to the people argue, we think correctly, that these social who live there, as well as to ensure the places issues are neither purely local nor trivial for are not unduly affected by concentrations of this Review. This is because they contribute to disadvantage, and to ensure that everywhere lower health and wellbeing across economies; in the area is able to fulfil its potential. in a point raised by the CAB: We noted earlier that the basis of a successful Good worker health contributes to high industrial policy requires a functioning health productivity and successful enterprises, which and care system. As PHE note in their in turn supports economic prosperity, and the response and in their “Health and Wealth” social wellbeing and welfare of communities. report28, the most important aspect of the health and care system in this regard is the Referencing the work of Michael Marmot, PHE need for investment appropriate preventative, make the point that lower economic activity long-term provision which tackles the social rates, high levels of benefit, mental health and determinants of health at source. We would other issues arise less from the performance welcome further views on this issue and how of the health and care sector (important as Cambridgeshire and Peterborough should this is) and more from wider social issues. tackle it as we prepare our final report.
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2.5 Human Capital: Education and Skills, the Role of Higher Education and Migration
The social dimension to growth in the figures, in further discussion with stakeholders Previous analyses of skills nationally such This response came from Cambridge University The area also has Anglia Ruskin University, previous section essentially concerns the we ascertained that the greatest concern is as the Leitch Report29 have established that Health Partners and reflects concern well also based in Cambridge, which, in partnership way in which the economy interacts with the for those not achieving good GCSE results some skills issues can be a product of low beyond the relatively lower skilled and low-paid with Peterborough Regional College, has population. The most important part of this and the extent to which these young people employer investment. However, even in the agricultural sectors on the link between skills created the University Centre Peterborough. relationship concerns human capital: the are ill-equipped with the skills for the world of high performing Cambridge economy, key and migration. We note that in some education and skills of the workforce. work. This is something on which the stakeholders have commented to us on the responses (the St Neots Masterplan being Despite this enviable level of provision in a single Commission would welcome views in the lack of fitness for purpose of the school system: one example) a particular concern over lack area, access to higher education is uneven We received a variety of views from the period ahead. of training provision sees this issue not just across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and consultation and stakeholders on the views As part of an effort to address this issue, the as driving international migration but also the educational attainment figures for areas of schools, further education, and higher One issue on which we received very little complexity of skills provision needs to be higher than necessary levels of commuting as relatively close to but economically distant from education. feedback was on the fitness for purpose addressed. There are currently more than 600 employees cannot source local labour. the centres of education suggest that more or otherwise of the pre-school education skills providers in Cambridgeshire with very could be done to create pathways between system and the impact of the wider social little coordination or signposting for users. The consultation revealed excellent local local communities and higher education. THE SCHOOL-AGE determinants of educational performance action which can be built on including the EDUCATION SYSTEM on later school attainment. The Commission In discussion, the Mayor and Local Authorities Accelerate East umbrella skills partnership, The comments we received from or on behalf The school system of Cambridgeshire and welcomes further views on this issue. noted with some frustration that, as in other proposals for an apprenticeship hub in of employees, particularly outside of the Peterborough has mixed but generally areas with devolved governance, negotiation Peterborough and the iMET campus in Greater Cambridge area, point to the need positive features. Cambridgeshire generally of devolution of responsibility for education Huntingdonshire. Despite these and other for better skills training for local employment over-performs relative to UK averages but THE SKILLS SYSTEM AND and skills had been met with strong resistance positive developments, these consultation sectors, an area where Higher Education could this is skewed by strong relative performance VOCATIONAL TRAINING by central government, leaving little space for responses accord with concerns about the also play a bigger role. This is among the towards the south of the county, with poorer Many of the responses to consultation raised local discretion. skill system expressed in many local areas reasons why Peterborough City Council has outcomes in Fenland and East Cambridgeshire. the issue of skills. In several areas including and is one we will return to in the final report. high on its list of priorities the development Peterborough also suffers relative disadvantage, St. Neots and Fenland, employer surveys and Views would be welcome on this issue. of a university in the city. The consultation and faces the challenge of large numbers of engagement revealed widespread discontent HUMAN CAPITAL AND MIGRATION – revealed that the University of Lincoln and its schoolchildren who don’t have English as a among businesses with the skills system, THE BREXIT DIMENSION link to the National Centre for Food first language. In Cambridgeshire, a Fenland something echoed in Peterborough and in Many respondents who referenced skills UNIVERSITIES AND HIGHER Manufacturing is something which should be and East Cambridgeshire Opportunity Area Huntingdonshire in relation to the lack of made a direct connection between the need EDUCATION further analysed and possibly emulated as Programme has been established as a means incentives for schools to provide accurate for a significant and rapid improvement in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is lucky to part of a coordinated response to the need of improving outcomes in these areas. information that enables young people to level of skills training and the expectation of have one of the most successful universities for a stronger skills supply in the agribusiness, make decisions on their vocational education a lower supply of skilled labour arising from in the world in its area. Cambridge University, manufacturing, and other important sectors Perhaps one of the most surprising and and training. Britain’s exit from the European Union: in addition to its educational excellence, is a in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough consistent findings of the consultation we major employer with some 12,000 staff, and economy. undertook with local authorities was that there The need for high-quality education and We would like to see a joined-up approach has secured some £1.6 billion in follow-on is a sense of dissatisfaction with educational training provision, particularly in relation to to apprenticeships rather than the current funding for University spin outs in the last outcomes even in areas of Cambridgeshire vocational skills, was highlighted by many arrangements which, despite the goodwill 20 years, spawning nearly 5,000 knowledge which perform well in statistical terms. respondents, including in Greater Cambridge, and hard work of individuals, does not intensive companies in the area. It is also a as a key means by which inequality can be meet the critical mass which is required in major investor in the future development of A comment made frequently to the alleviated, with considerable concern that a future where the life science industry will the area with its project at Eddington alone Commission is that the school education current arrangements do not lend be affected by Brexit. worth £1 billion, leading to the creation of system of the area is not fit for purpose. themselves well to achieving this. more than 3,000 homes as well as retail, Given the relatively positive performance community centres and research space.
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TRANSPORT options to the west and south east of Cambridge transport planning are not considered in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is a large (linking the Cambridge Biomedical Campus with isolation; rather, delivery must occur in a area with a dispersed pattern of settlement Babraham and/or Granta Park). Connectivity synchronised fashion. For example, the and unsurprisingly the consultation has to the south is felt to be a particular issue – positive effect of strengthening links from revealed a wide range of views on transport with the A505 beginning to show strain, and Oxford to Cambridge will be severely blunted 2.6 Transport investment. increased momentum for the construction of if researchers from Oxford are unable to a Cambridge South station. reach research institutions within Cambridge and Infrastructure In relation to roads, it is important to note easily upon arrival, such as is often the case that both Peterborough and Fenland accord a In addition to these and other schemes the for institutions like the Hinxton Genome very high priority to the dualling of the A47 which review is aware that the Mayor has a Centre some distance to the south of the city. would improve connectivity across the northern long-term proposal to extend the M11 north Inter-city travel matters, but intra-city travel is part of Cambridgeshire to Peterborough, and from the Cambridge area to join the A47 in crucial. In its review of infrastructure also complete a vitally important link from order to create a Peterborough – Cambridge initiatives in the final report, the Commission Transport and infrastructure are some of the found through consultation that the list Norfolk through to the Midlands. – London corridor. will consider transport both within and most important policy levers available to of schemes now proposed is long indeed. beyond city boundaries. governments to support economic growth. However, the key findings from this analysis Similarly, there is great anticipation: The limitations on likely road access to The picture which has greeted the review is that development of schemes is possible in Cambridge have seen attention switch, The capacity of the Combined Authority and through consultation is one of frustration in the area, but that the time taken to see them - from the greater Cambridge area and building on the success of the guided busway local authorities to manage such a large and this area. Many schemes have been discussed through from conception to completion is too Huntingdonshire for the completion of the and Cambridge North Station, to off-road complex list of priorities is considered below. and planned, some are in development whilst long and results in significant economic costs. current works on the A14 to improve cross solutions including the possibility of creating However, even with the capacity to manage other important proposals remain undeveloped. country connectivity in that part of the county. an autonomous Metro service connecting the it, this list of schemes is in all likelihood too The Commission is conscious that, given city with its hinterland. This idea has been expensive to fund simultaneously; but There are undoubtedly development pressures the many strong options for infrastructure - from East Cambridgeshire as well as from developed to include tunnels for rubber because of the vastly different sizes and in the area so frustration is understandable. schemes, an evidence-based view needs Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire for wheeled vehicles guided by artificial intelligence, states of development of each, they may not It is worth recalling some of the other to be developed on the timings for these improvements to the A10. which would stop at a central terminus need to be funded at the same time. It looks developments in and around Cambridgeshire schemes to come to fruition. This needs to under the city. There would then be set aside to the Commission as if a process of priori- and Peterborough in recent decades. The look at where the urgent need is at present, In addition, the review has heard compelling above-ground roads to connect developments tisation will be needed so as to ensure that M11 may now be some 40 years old but was what finance will be available and when, and arguments for essentially local but nonetheless around Cambridge to the city. This form of schemes are progressed in a timely manner the fulfilment of plans started in 1915. M11 what would guarantee a good return on fundamentally important projects. For example, connectivity would expand the area as they are ready to proceed and in an order access to Stansted airport, itself a relatively investment. in Huntingdonshire, a third river crossing considered to be in easy reach of Cambridge. which reflects their importance to the econ- recent addition to the transport infrastructure over the river Ouse to St Ives would offer the omy as a whole (whilst being mindful of the of the area, didn’t arrive until 2002. The A14, What is true in terms of transport limitations potential for 10,000 new homes in that area. In the centre of the county, at Ely, there are need to ensure that growth is maximised currently under reconstruction, was itself the may well be true in relation to utilities; proposals which will go some way to alleviating in each part of the Cambridgeshire and subject of major upgrading from the 1980s especially electricity supply and broadband, As a New Town, Peterborough has a problem the congestion and alignment of the railway Peterborough area). This is an area where onwards, whilst rail connections have been as well as in flood defences – a uniquely looming over the simultaneous ageing of much lines which meet at Ely Junction. In the north the Commission will make recommendations the subject of considerable improvement, important part of the infrastructure in this part of its infrastructure. The poor connectivity of of the county, the campaign to reopen the in its final report and views are welcome most importantly the development of a direct of the world. many market towns, particularly those in the Wisbech to March line has seen feasibility on both the priorities themselves and the and fast train link from Cambridge to London fens, would not be wholly resolved by current work started, funded by the Combined principles and process by which they should Kings Cross. We consider what we have seen and heard plans for the A47 and the as yet unscheduled Authority, in 2018. be prioritised. on transport, utilities and broadband in the works for the A10. Clearly these important developments have sections below. At a more advanced stage of planning is an not arrived as quickly as hoped and we have The city of Cambridge has its own set of local improved rail route between Cambridge, and sub-regional needs extending into the Milton Keynes and Oxford (with funding for the greater Cambridge area and a variety of road western section approved by the Chancellor Key Question: What are and cycle priorities. The Big Conversation (a in the 2017 Budget) and less developed the main infrastructure Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) survey plans for a road Expressway scheme as in November 2017) found that “traffic and recommended by the National Infrastructure priorities and why? What congestion slowing your journey” was the Commission. needs to come first most commonly experienced challenge when to maintain economic travelling around the area, with almost 70% Elsewhere in relation to public transport, the of people noting this. The lack of, and Commission has received impassioned pleas growth and unlock future unreliability of, public transport were the next for the development of cross ticketing and growth, from an economic biggest issues. The Combined Authority, for the mayor to take up the right under the as the Strategic Transport Authority, are tak- Devolution Deal to implement bus franchising. and practical perspective? ing forward transport proposals for intra-city travel in the area, with the Cambridge Auton- This is by no means a complete list of the Key Question: What are omous Metro high up on the agenda. GCP schemes that have been put to the Commission the funding streams that is supporting the proposal and has jointly in its consultation. There are numerous ideas can allow for ambitious funded with Combined Authority a high-lev- at both the national and local level. What el options appraisal of a suitable solution. does strike the Commission as of great development? Other studies have been produced to explore importance is that these two levels of 48 2.6 TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE 2.6 TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE 49
UTILITIES AND FLOOD RISK the loss of night-time load from the increasing plans, both in relation to these data and those The evidence submitted to the Commission penetration of gas heating systems, increasing relating to the development of 5G services. by the Middle Level Commissioners (who summer load from air conditioning and cooling represent thirty Flood Risk Management equipment, and the growth in demand from In relation to broadband provision, the (FRM) authorities) revealed the complex electric vehicle (EV) charging. Connecting Cambridgeshire submission patterns of governance and management outlines how, since 2015 and in three phases, stewarding the flood defences. These have A need for increased efficiency of usage is the provision of superfast broadband has developed over several hundred years in the driving an increase in ‘flexibility services’, increased markedly. The programme is on area. They allude to the levels of investment whereby energy supply becomes more course to reach a target of 97% by the end of which will be required in the future, partly for responsive to local demand. Therefore, the 2018 and a further phase is planned with the reasons of maintenance, but partly because responsibility is changing from one of target of 99% by the end of 2020. of increased flood risk. overseeing local distribution, to one of managing an intelligent, multi-input, local On these figures, Cambridgeshire and In its submission to the Commission, the energy system. Even so, a number of Peterborough look to be relatively well Regional Flood and Coastal Committee bottlenecks are anticipated, with several in provided for. The same looks to be the case quantified the financial risk, arguing that the Greater Cambridge area in particular, in relation to ultra-fast (fibre to the premises) the Environment Agency have reported the associated with major new developments. provision, with Cambridge and Peterborough existence of £1.2 billion worth of flood risk both marginally above the UK average of 3.7%. assets in the Great Ouse tidal river area, with Relatively few respondents cited imminent This is a very low figure given the growing Government funding likely to meet only 40% pressures in relation to water. In general, importance of synchronous and uncontended of the anticipated funding needs, resulting in this was backed up by the evidence from high bandwidth provision to business users, a funding gap of £80-£100 million. Anglia Water Services. Nonetheless they and however is the result of national rather than others make the argument that flood risk local issues, and therefore is an area where The Environment Agency argue that even can only be minimised through investment the Combined Authority should continue to though over one third of the area is at high in appropriate infrastructure alongside or press for greater investment. In this area, risk of flooding, resulting in major cost pres- ahead of development, whilst there is the Peterborough looks to have positioned itself sures, investment in managing risk brings need for continuing innovation such as that well through the CityFibre project. significant capital and wider benefits, which underway in Fenland involving a partnership are many times the level of investment. between the District Council and the Dutch CityFibre has also announced a strategic Government. partnership with Vodafone to deliver Gigabit It is impossible for the Commission to quantify capable full-fibre broadband to up to 5 the risk to the economy of Cambridgeshire Broadband and Mobile Telephony Many million homes and businesses nationally by and Peterborough arising from floods. We respondents made reference to either or 2025. Peterborough is one of the first cities would welcome further views on this issue in both the patchy mobile phone coverage to be announced as part of this partnership. the period before our final report is produced within their areas and the limitations of the The project will see a private investment from but would note that financial pressures in this existing programme of superfast broadband CityFibre of at least £30 million into a state-of- area will add to those considered previously rollout across the area. the-art digital infrastructure, bringing ultrafast in relation to transport projects, further internet connectivity within reach of every highlighting the need for a robust process of The Connecting Cambridgeshire programme, building in the city. investment prioritisation. which provided a response to the Commission, used 2017 Ofcom data from its Connected Many respondents to the consultation made Nations report to illustrate the unevenness reference to potential shortages of power, of connectivity to 2G and 4G mobile signals in Key Question: Where though most were essentially anecdotal. Peak the area. Whilst Cambridge and Peterborough demand nationally is expected to increase are relatively well served, a different picture are limitations in the from 60GW currently to 85GW in 2050. is found in other districts, with indoor, in car electricity supply and Emerging challenges flagged by UKPN in its and 4G coverage at substantially lower levels Long Term Development Statement for the than the English average. We will analyse this broadband provision Eastern Power Networks (EPN) area (which data further in our final report, and will be hampering local growth? covers our area and beyond into Essex, Bedford, interested in hearing from mobile operators Buckinghamshire, and North London) include on the current levels of service and future 50 2.7 HOUSING 2.7 HOUSING 51
2.7 Housing
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough has improve matters. As the Greater Cambridge Cambridge, given the high level of house construction of a further 12,000 new homes there remains an acute shortage of affordable consider this issue further in the final report. performed better than many areas of the Partnership commented in their response: prices in the city. and the creation of jobs to ensure the housing. There is anecdotal but compelling country in delivering new housing over recent sustainable growth of the town and future evidence that commuting patterns are becoming Strategic Planning policy has an important role years. Nonetheless, the need for further Jobs growth in Greater Cambridge has This is a welcome intervention, however economic prosperity. ever more extended out of Cambridge, to play in sustaining the pipeline of housing housing provision in the area was one of the outstripped housing growth, resulting in will not alone solve problems for Greater particularly for lower paid workers due to sites and in ensuring that the necessary most widespread concerns which arose in the high house prices and declining affordability. Cambridge. Clearly, Fenland has opportunities for housing unaffordable housing costs. infrastructure is in place too. Several responses consultation. These issues contribute to Cambridge development as do East Cambridgeshire and to the consultation highlighted the role that being the most unequal city in the UK, with Elsewhere, rather than development pressures, Peterborough. The question, neatly summarised The only hard evidence presented to the the Combined Authority could play in this area As stated above in relation to transport and significant shortages in key workers likely in the prevailing issue is of relatively modest in Fenland’s response, is how to convert this Commission in relation to housing need was not least via the Spatial Framework included in infrastructure, the relatively permissive de- the future without action being taken. demand and low land prices. This is complicated potential into actual supply and in ways which from Peterborough, whose submission reported the Devolution Deal, a point picked up later in velopment environment which exists in some by land conditions, which is particularly the do not weaken demand. This, in our view, is some 3,117 applicants waiting for social relation to public administration, below. There parts and where there is potential to devel- The area has already responded: the local case in Fenland as their response to the unlikely to be achieved simply or even primarily housing as of April 2017. Peterborough City looks also to be a role for creative new ways of op is tempered by reservations concerning planning authorities have ambitious plans Commission made clear: by improving transport connectivity, but by Council is one of the local authorities which developing housing, and increased density in infrastructure. Local authority respondents for new housing with sites allocated in education, skills, industrial and indeed every has created a new housing development urban centres seems likely to be a feature of are increasingly concerned that appropriate adopted and submitted plans providing Fenland faces an unfortunate set of other policy lever considered in this report. company in partnership with a developer. This the future. transport and other infrastructure needs to be over 40,000 new homes, including through circumstances in that although there is a The balance between and sequencing of these issue – the need for and creation of a supply put in place prior to housing development to new settlements at Northstowe (now significant supply of suitable development issues will be the key issue for the Combined of affordable housing – is one the Commission ensure effective integration of new developments underway), Waterbeach and Bourn and and urban extension sites, house prices Authority and its Local Authority Members. We will return to in the second half of our work. Key Question: How can the within existing urban environments. Getting development on the edges of Cambridge and therefore returns to developers, are will make recommendations in this regard, and south of the area ensure its infrastructure right is essential to delivering City at Wing, Cherry Hinton, Darwin Green relatively low comparative to build costs would welcome further views. The Commission has also noted data from the success doesn’t come at a cost stronger house in growth. and North-West Cambridge. In recognising which may be higher still in some locations Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local the significant housing affordability issues due to additional foundation design to In areas of high demand, the responses from Government (MHCLG) on housing completions to local people in the form of The work on Cambridge Futures discussed in in Greater Cambridge, the Cambridgeshire meet geological conditions (essentially the University of Cambridge and others for the last five years across the economy, unaffordable housing? What Section 1 of the report looks set to confirm and Peterborough Devolution Deal has flood risk). highlight the steps that major employers are which show that average completions over that on current trends, the existing levels of secured funding from Government for taking to ensure that there is at least some 2012-2017 were 3581 per annum for the practical steps can central housing completions relative to demand will affordable housing, including £100 million In response to reduced market activity, supply of affordable housing for key workers. area30. The data from the Government’s recent and local government take lead to increasing pressure on the housing for affordable, rented and shared ownership Fenland District Council has commissioned Despite this and the activity of Housing housing consultation state that an additional market with a potentially severe impact on the homes, and £70 million, to be passported feasibility studies to consider the development Associations, and indeed Local Authorities 4826 dwellings will be required per year to to improve housing supply local economy. This is despite considerable to the City Council, specifically to support of a Wisbech Garden Town, an effective (some of the latter report that they are starting meet demand31. This need to build more housing across the area? efforts on the part of the local authority to the development of council homes in expansion of the existing town with the to set up their own development companies), is being recognised in local plans, and we will
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2.8 The role of the public sector Towards The Final Report
Following the creation of the Combined considering as part of his plan for funding land and compulsory purchase powers and Authority and the election of its first Directly major infrastructure development in the future the possible devolution of 3.1 Questions for Elected Mayor, Cambridgeshire and – is another area with considerable potential. call-in powers could assist in making Peterborough has undergone significant schemes more efficient. change in governance and is in the process of The opportunity and the challenge to the public further consultation maturing existing and new institutions into a sector in the period ahead was laid out most The Commission also recognises that the All of the work done so far has raised particular questions which the Commission would like to system which is as yet still emergent. The clearly by the University of Cambridge response: Combined Authority currently has limited fiscal engage further with local business, residents, and authorities on, as well as any other interested opportunity of the Combined Authority was powers. Before the current Devolution Deal, stakeholders. These have been noted throughout the report. They are: not lost on respondents to the consultation, Through encouraging spillovers, greater there had been a number of attempts to who expressed clear appreciation of the connectivity, and collaboration, we would secure greater devolution of powers and 1. Does the three-area characterisation summarise the area well? Which links between the area need and opportunity for better and more urge regional policymakers to recognise funding to the local area, with the City Deal for have not been well captured? What are the most important links to outside the area? coordinated action across the range of issues the GVA of these distinct zones and assess Greater Cambridge representing the most 2. How can the area achieve its target of doubling GVA in 25 years? considered in this section. how their different strategies and visions successful. However, there has been very limited 3. What will the likely impacts of Brexit be upon the area? How can the area best prepare for can be brought into greater alignment rather progress towards genuine fiscal devolution, any changes this will bring? What local and national policy environment is likely to be conducive There is, for some respondents, concern that than brought into greater competition for where greater control over tax revenues rests to this? the split of responsibilities between town and regional or national investment. This might with the local area. 4. How can we create the conditions required for the development of sectors which will provide local authorities, the County Council, and the build on the forthcoming Non Statutory long term resilience for the local economy? What role should industrial policy play in this? Combined Authority is not clear and therefore Spatial Plan and would help to disperse In the negotiations around the Cambridge City 5. Where does the education system most need attention? How conducive is the wider there is potential for duplication and delay. growth prospects more equitably across Deal, local partners (Cambridge City Council, environment (including early years schooling) to helping young people develop necessary skills? There were echoes of these concerns from the county, without diminishing the South Cambridgeshire District Council, 6. What specialisms should the planned new university at Peterborough focus on? the private, academic as well as public sector comparative strengths of any area. Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridge 7. Where can we see poor health outcomes affecting productivity? Which businesses are respondents. Clearly these are inevitable University and the Local Enterprise Partnership) exemplars at improving health outcomes for employees? How can lower life expectancy concerns at this stage in the evolution of the The Anglian Water submission laid out the had argued for an arrangement which would outcomes be improved? new system but do highlight the need to potential for a growth and development strategy have been underpinned by tax increment 8. How much is lack of available premises hindering business growth? Similarly, is access to create legibility and clarity. to combine minimum standards and to financing - so that a portion of the uplift in tax finance a significant problem? improve the collation of data and information revenues created by the investments within 9. How can Cambridge lose its unwanted accolade of being the most unequal city in the UK? The consultation has revealed strong and among planning authorities leading to better the City Deal would have been retained locally How can we tackle inequality and deprivation across the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough perhaps unusually high levels of excellence, service outcomes. Though, mindful of the to cover the costs of that investment. In the area? such as the work of the Combined Authority, points on business premises made earlier, this later part of the negotiations, Government 10. What are the main infrastructure priorities and why? What needs to come first to maintain Huntingdonshire District and St. Neots Town point on data could extend beyond planning decided against this approach and instead economic growth and unlock future growth, from an economic and practical perspective? Council on the ‘St. Neots Masterplan for into the wider economic and social development opted for what is essentially a grant system, 11. What are the funding streams that can allow for ambitious development? Growth’. Clearly this is one example of the new arena though the development of an ongoing with gateway reviews to test progress against 12. Where are limitations in the electricity supply and broadband provision hampering local system starting to work, underpinned by the capacity for data and intelligence. plans before the next tranche of grant funding growth? principle of subsidiarity which has been key can be released. 13. How can the south of the area ensure its success doesn’t come at a cost to local people in to the ‘devolution revolution’. We also note Several respondents also raised the potential the form of unaffordable housing? What practical steps can central and local government take that this is a very positive example of a market for public service reform activity across the Since the City Deal was agreed, the existing to improve housing supply across the area? town taking responsibility for its own destiny, range of health, care and other human services collaborative working between the local deciding the sort of place it wants to be, and to help make better inroads into inequality authorities, the business community and partnering to achieve it. Other market towns within the Combined Authority area. universities has strengthened and widened. should look to develop their own futures, by Now, with the creation of the Combined allowing themselves to grow, and by creating The strategic capacity of the Combined Authority and the office of a directly-elected jobs for local people to ensure that economic Authority along with that of the other local Mayor, there may be opportunities to make vibrancy does not just become the preserve of authorities is an area where the Commission the case again for greater fiscal devolution so 3.2 Next steps the larger settlements, and we are encouraged has found evidence of a real need for focus. As that more of the fruits of future growth are to note further market towns, such as Ramsey the County Council itself noted: retained locally and harnessed to cover the The consultation on this interim report will remain open for a month after its launch. Comments, and Littleport, are to be given funding to costs of putting in place the enhanced further evidence and other responses should be sent to the Commission at the following e-mail develop plans. Timescales for bringing forward infrastructure of all types that will be necessary address: [email protected] by Friday 8th June at the latest. infrastructure projects are getting longer, to ensure the whole area can make the most Similarly, the enterprising activities in East restricting growth plans. Processes are be- of its potential. This is something the The C ommission will continue to meet through the spring and summer, considering the responses Cambridgeshire District Council on financing coming more complex due to a more risk Commission will consider in its final report. received, along with further evidence as it becomes available. A series of further consultation visits for infrastructure – the development and averse regulatory environment. A review of will be undertaken, and the report will be written in summer 2018. It will be launched as soon as extension of which the Mayor is actively planning processes, particularly relating to possible following the summer holidays. 54 APPENDICES APPENDICES 55
EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE FENLAND Appendices KEY SECTORS KEY SECTORS Appendix 2 • East Cambridgeshire contributes 9.8% of total employment and • Fenland contributes 5.2% of total employment and 4.9% of total BUSINESS OVERVIEW OF EACH DISTRICT 7.6% of total turnover in the Combined Authority. turnover in the Combined Authority, the smallest contribution • The largest number of employees are in the Primary sector (25.6% among the six districts. CAMBRIDGE of total employment in the district and 49.7% of total employment • The largest share of employment is in the Primary sector (20.7% in the sector for the Combined Authority). of total employment in the area and 21.6% of total employment Appendix 1 KEY SECTORS • The share of employment in KI sectors (10.5%) is the second for the sector in the Combined Authority). • Cambridge contributes 15.8% of total employment and 15.6% of CALCULATION OF THE CA/BRES COMBINED MEASURE OF lowest after Fenland (6.5%) and well below the average for the • The share of employment in KI sectors (6.5%) is the lowest in the total turnover in the Combined Authority. GROWTH IN CORPORATE EMPLOYMENT Combined Authority (25.3%). Combined Authority. • The largest share of employment is found in the Information To create the weighted measures, more weight was given to sectors • The greatest shares of turnover are generated in the Primary • The greatest contribution in terms of turnover comes from the Technology and Telecoms sector (22.8% of total employment in where CBR were more confident in their figures, due to the in-depth sector (24.3%) and in the Wholesale and Retail Distribution sector Wholesale and Retail Distribution sector, which accounts for 31.5% Cambridge and 44.7% of total employment in the sector for the knowledge of the corporate economy. This includes the five KI sectors, (21.9%). of total turnover in Fenland. Combined Authority). which are (according to BRES definitions): High-tech manufacturing, Life • Employment LQs suggest that there is high concentration in the • Employment in the district tends to be concentrated in the Primary • KI sectors constitute 38.1% of total employment in the area, the sciences manufacturing, ICT, R&D, and Knowledge intensive services. Primary sector, in the Transport and Travel sector, and in the sector, although relatively high concentration is also observed in second highest figure after South Cambridgeshire (43.3%) and well The first five non-KI sectors, where generally we trust CBR figures Education, Arts, Charities, Social Care sector. Construction and Utilities, and Manufacturing. above the Combined Authority (25.3%). more are Primary, Other manufacturing, Property and construction, • Total employment in East Cambridgeshire has increased at a • During the six years to 2016-17, total employment in the area has • Significant shares of turnover are observed in Information Utilities, and Publishing. The remaining ten, where we rely on BRES slightly higher rate compared to the Combined Authority (6.8% grown at the same rate of the Combined Authority (6.7%). Technology and Telecoms (31.9% and 56.6%), High-Tech Towards The Final Report figures more are: Transport and travel, Wholesale distribution, Retail and 6.7%, respectively, for the six-year growth). • High rates of growth in employment have been experienced by Manufacturing (20.6% and 24.7%) and Other Business Services distribution, Hotels, pubs and restaurants, Other business services, • Employment growth in the Primary sector (6.0%) has witnessed a Construction and Utilities (13.2%) and Other Business Services (9.8% and 24.4%). Public services, Other Services, Education, Finance and professional higher rate relative to the Combined Authority (4.9%). (10.2%). • There is particular concentration in the KI sectors, especially in services, and Health services. • The largest rates of growth in turnover are observed for Education, • Key sectors in terms of employment, such as Primary, Manufacturing, Information Technology and Telecoms, and in Knowledge Intensive Arts, Charities, Social Care (32.5%), Other Services (16.0%), and Construction and Utilities, have had higher rates of growth Services. This table shows the different employment weights given to different Construction and Utilities (11.6%) and Primary (7.8%). compared to the Combined Authority. • Six-year employment growth in the district (5.6%) has been lower sectors according to BRES and CBR figures. • Concentration in terms of employment has increased over time • Six-year turnover growth in the district (5.4%) has been lower than compared to the Combined Authority (6.7%). in a number of non-KI sectors, including Education, Arts, Charities, that for the Combined Authority (6.7%), yet greater than that for • Employment growth for KI sectors in Cambridge (6.9%) has been BRES COMPARISON 6YRS 2010-2016 Social Care, Primary and Other Services. Peterborough (2.6%). remarkably higher than that for the Combined Authority (4.9%). DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYMENT AND TURNOVER BY FIRM SIZE • Relative concentration for employment has increased in a number • Concentration has increased over time in Information Technology EMPLOYMENT GROWTH BRES DATA CBR DATA of key sectors, namely Construction and Utilities, Manufacturing and Telecoms, Knowledge Intensive Services, and Life Science and • Large firms account for over half of total employment in the area, (% PA) GROWTH % WEIGHT GROWTH % WEIGHT and Primary. Healthcare. a figure that is considerably higher compared to the Combined Cambridge DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYMENT AND TURNOVER BY FIRM SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYMENT AND TURNOVER BY FIRM SIZE Authority (46.8%). 5 KI sectors 3.6% 14.5% 5.3% 30.1% • Over 47% of total turnover in the district is generated by the 14 • Over half of total employment in Fenland is concentrated in SMEs, • SMEs account for the largest share of employment in the district First 5 non-KI sectors 0.0% 7.9% -0.6% 10.8% firms with more than 250 employees that are based in the area, while micro firms account for approximately 30% of total employment. (42.0%), while over a third of employment is at large firms. Last 10 non-KI sectors 2.3% 77.6% 3.6% 59.1% while SMEs contribute almost a third of total turnover. • The largest share of turnover in the area is originated by firms with • Half of total turnover in Cambridge is accounted for by large firms, Total Employment 2.3% 100.0% 3.7% 100.0% • Employment growth for large firms (7.0% for the six years to 2016- 10-49 employees (28.2%). whilst turnover generated by SMEs represents around a third of South Cambridgeshire 17) appears to be the major driver of total employment growth in • SMEs have exhibited the highest rates of employment growth in total turnover in the district. 5 KI sectors 3.7% 28.2% 5.7% 46.5% the district. the district (8.4%) and have grown at a faster rate relative to the • Total employment growth in the area appears to be driven by the First 5 non-KI sectors -2.5% 19.7% 5.5% 18.1% • Large firms in East Cambridgeshire have seen greater turnover Combined Authority (6.0%). growth of large firms. growth (9.4%) than the average for the entire area (7.8%). • The highest rate of growth in turnover is reported for large firms (7.8%). Last 10 non-KI sectors 3.0% 52.1% 9.8% 35.3% • All three groups of firms in Cambridge have witnessed lower LARGEST COMPANIES LARGEST COMPANIES Total Employment 2.2% 100.0% 7.2% 100.0% employment growth rates relative to the Combined Authority. East Cambridgeshire • The fastest rates of growth in turnover are found among firms with • The largest companies based in the district tend to be concentrated • Some of the key players based in Fenland are found in Wholesale 5 KI sectors 3.1% 10.7% 4.2% 12.9% more than 250 employees. in non-KI sectors, namely Primary (e.g. G’S GROUP HOLDINGS and Retail Distribution (e.g. MM (UK) LIMITED), Primary (e.g.
First 5 non-KI sectors 2.0% 21.2% 4.9% 46.6% LARGEST COMPANIES LIMITED), Transport and Travel (e.g. TURNERS (SOHAM) HOLDINGS PRODUCE INVESTMENTS PLC and ALAN BARTLETT & SONS Last 10 non-KI sectors 4.4% 68.1% 9.4% 40.5% LIMITED) and Wholesale and Retail Distribution (e.g. GEORGE (CHATTERIS) LIMITED), Construction and Utilities (e.g. FOSTER • Some of the largest companies that are based in Cambridge Total Employment 3.8% 100.0% 6.8% 100.0% THURLOW AND SONS (HOLDINGS) LIMITED). PROPERTY MAINTENANCE LIMITED) and Manufacturing (e.g. LH are found in the KI sectors, namely Information Technology and • Among the key sectors in terms of active companies are HOLDINGS LIMITED and TRADELINK DIRECT LIMITED). Huntingdonshire Telecoms (e.g. ARM LIMITED and AVEVA GROUP PLC), Life Science Manufacturing (e.g. WITTINGTON INVESTMENTS LIMITED), • Most of the largest companies active in the area belong to non-KI 5 KI sectors -1.0% 11.9% 4.0% 19.1% and Healthcare (e.g. CARL ZEISS LTD) and High-Tech Manufacturing Wholesale and Retail Distribution (e.g. VOLKSWAGEN GROUP sectors, including Wholesale and Retail Distribution (e.g. PRINCES First 5 non-KI sectors 2.1% 18.9% 4.2% 37.1% (QUALCOMM TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, LTD.). UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED) and Construction and Utilities (e.g. LIMITED and FARMFOODS LIMITED), Primary (e.g. AGGREGATE Last 10 non-KI sectors 1.9% 69.2% 6.0% 43.8% • Key examples of companies that are active in the district include EUROPEAN METAL RECYCLING LIMITED). INDUSTRIES UK LIMITED), Construction and Utilities (e.g. BIFFA Total Employment 1.7% 100.0% 5.0% 100.0% GLAXOSMITHKLINE PLC and ASTRAZENECA PLC (Life Science and COMPARISON WITH BRES WASTE SERVICES LIMITED), Manufacturing (e.g. SMURFIT KAPPA Healthcare) as well as VODAFONE LIMITED and VIRGIN MEDIA Peterborough UK LTD) and Transport and Travel (e.g. CEVA LOGISTICS LIMITED). 5 KI sectors -0.5% 10.4% 1.9% 24.9% LIMITED (Information Technology and Telecoms). • Total employment based on Cambridge Ahead data represents COMPARISON WITH BRES First 5 non-KI sectors -1.5% 14.0% 9.3% 23.4% COMPARISON WITH BRES around 75% of total BRES employment, the highest value among the six districts. • Total employment based on Cambridge Ahead data represents Last 10 non-KI sectors 3.3% 75.7% 9.7% 51.7% • Total employment based on Cambridge Ahead data represents • The largest differences between Cambridge Ahead and BRES over a third of total BRES employment, the lowest value among Total Employment 2.3% 100.0% 7.9% 100.0% approximately 37% of total BRES employment. employment estimates are found for Primary (5,768), Other the six districts. Fenland • The largest differences between Cambridge Ahead and BRES Business Services (-3,093) and Other Services (-2,052). • The largest differences between Cambridge Ahead and BRES 5 KI sectors 0.5% 4.7% 6.4% 7.4% employment estimates are found for Education (-17,812), Health • Six-year employment growth is 6.8% based on Cambridge Ahead estimates are found for Other Business Services (-3,620), Other First 5 non-KI sectors 1.0% 27.9% 7.2% 48.7% Services (-14,016) and Retail Distribution (-8,332). data and 3.8% according to BRES data. Manufacturing (-3,557) and Health Services (-3,413). • Six-year employment growth is 5.6% based on Cambridge Ahead Last 10 non-KI sectors 3.4% 67.4% 6.0% 43.9% • Six-year employment growth is 6.7% based on Cambridge Ahead data and 2.3% according to BRES data. Total Employment 2.6% 100.0% 6.7% 100.0% data and 2.6% according to BRES data. 56 APPENDICES APPENDICES 57
HUNTINGDONSHIRE PETERBOROUGH COMPARISON WITH BRES COMPARISON WITH BRES
KEY SECTORS KEY SECTORS • Total employment based on Cambridge Ahead data represents • Total employment based on Cambridge Ahead data represents around 54% of total BRES employment. approximately two thirds of total BRES employment. • Huntingdonshire contributes 20.4% of total employment and • Peterborough contributes 25.5% of total employment and 24.7% • The largest differences between Cambridge Ahead and BRES • The largest differences between Cambridge Ahead and BRES 19.6% of total turnover in the Combined Authority. of total turnover in the Combined Authority, the greatest estimates are found for Other Business Services (-12,087), Retail employment estimates are found for Health Services (-7,252), • The largest sector in terms of employment is Other Business contribution in the area alongside South Cambridgeshire. Distribution (-11,981) and Health Services (-11,506). Education (-3,525) and Retail Distribution (-3,374). Services (19.4% of the total for the district and 29.4% of the total • Employment is particularly high in Property and Finance (27.9% of • Six-year employment growth is 7.9% based on Cambridge Ahead • Six-year employment growth is 7.5% based on Cambridge Ahead in the sector for the Combined Authority). total employment in the district and 63.9% of total employment for data and 2.3% according to BRES data, the largest difference data and 2.2% according to BRES data. • KI sectors account for 17.3% of total employment in the area, the sector in the area), Other Business Services (18.2% and 34.6%) among the six districts. significantly below the average for the Combined Authority (25.3%). and Wholesale Total employment based on Cambridge Ahead data • The largest share of turnover is generated in the Manufacturing represents approximately 62% of total BRES employment. sector (23.7%). • The largest differences between Cambridge Ahead and BRES SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE • There is particular concentration in Construction and Utilities, employment estimates are found for Health Services (-8,464), Manufacturing and Other Business Services. Retail Distribution (-6,720) and Public Services (-4,493). KEY SECTORS • During the six years to 2016-17, Huntingdonshire has witnessed • Six-year employment growth is 5.0% based on Cambridge Ahead • South Cambridgeshire contributes 23.3% of total employment a lower growth rate in total employment (5.0%) compared to the data and 1.7% according to BRES data.and Retail Distribution and 27.5% of total turnover in the Combined Authority, the highest Combined Authority (6.7%). (10.8% and 26.6%). contribution in the area alongside Peterborough. • Among the fastest growing sectors based on employment are • The largest KI sector is High-Tech Manufacturing, which accounts • The largest sector in terms of employment is given by Life Science Education, Arts, Charities, Social Care (17.4%), Other Services for almost a third of total employment for the sector in the and Healthcare (15.9% of total employment in the district and 69.5% (10.3%) and Wholesale and Retail Distribution (7.9%). Combined Authority. of total employment in the sector for the Combined Authority). • Growth in employment for the KI sectors (3.3%) has been lower • The largest sector based on turnover is Transport and Travel (27.1%). • Particularly high is employment in Biotechnology R&D (5,993) and than the average for the Combined Authority (4.9%). • Employment is concentrated in several non-KI sectors, namely in High-Tech Manufacturing – Life Sciences (2,193). • The highest growth rates in turnover over the entire period can be Property and Finance, and Other Business Services, as well as in • Among non-KI sectors, employment is high in the Wholesale and seen for Education, Arts, Charities, Social Care (13.4%), Property some KI sectors such as High-Tech Manufacturing. Retail Distribution sector (12.7% and 28.4%). and Finance (10.8%) and Other Services (10.1%). • Total employment growth in Peterborough over the six-year • Turnover in the Life Science and Healthcare sector in South • Relative concentration in employment has increased for period (7.9%) has been the highest in the Combined Authority. Cambridgeshire alone accounts for over 70% of total turnover in Manufacturing, Education, Arts, Charities, Social Care, Wholesale • The sector that has exhibited the largest growth in employment is the sector for the Combined Authority. and Retail Distribution, and Other Services. Other Business Services (20.6%), followed by Property and Finance • During the six years to 2016-17, total employment growth (7.5%)
DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYMENT AND TURNOVER BY FIRM SIZE (11.8%). has been the second highest after Peterborough (7.9%) and • Peterborough has seen somewhat limited turnover growth over greater than that for the Combined Authority (6.7%). • Large firms contribute the largest share of employment in the the entire period (2.6% as opposed to 6.7% in the Combined • The fastest growing KI sector based on employment is Information district (42.4%), while employment at SMEs constitutes around one Authority). Technology and Telecoms (8.1%). third of total employment. • Concentration in terms of employment has increased in Other • Growth in turnover has been particularly high in Information • Almost half of total turnover in Huntingdonshire is originated by l Business Services, Property and Finance, and Construction and Technology and Telecoms (10.5%) and Life Science and Healthcare large firms. Utilities. (10.4%). • The highest rates of employment growth are reported by SMEs • Relative concentration in terms of employment for KI sectors has (6.7% over the entire period), whereas more limited appears to be DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYMENT AND TURNOVER BY FIRM SIZE somewhat increased throughout the entire period. employment growth among large firms (3.3%). • Employment in Peterborough is concentrated among firms with more • Micro firms have the highest rate of turnover growth in the district than 250 employees, which account for 65.1% of total employment in DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYMENT AND TURNOVER BY FIRM SIZE (7.7%). the district. • Firms with more than 250 employees account for the largest share of • The lowest growth rate in turnover is observed for large firms (5.0%). • The share of turnover generated by large firms (71.0%) is substantially employment in South Cambridgeshire (40.8%), while SMEs contribute
LARGEST COMPANIES higher relative to the Combined Authority (52.8%). over one third of total employment. • Total employment growth is mostly driven by large firms, which have • The largest portion of turnover in the district is generated by large • Some of the largest Huntingdonshire-based companies operate been growing at higher rates compared to the whole area (10.1% and firms (48.6%), followed by SMEs (33.9%) and micro firms (17.5%). in Construction and Utilities (e.g. OSPREY ACQUISITIONS LIMITED), 7.3%, respectively). • The highest six-year employment growth rates in the district are Manufacturing (e.g. HILTON FOOD GROUP PLC), Other Business • Turnover growth for large firms has slowed down during the past found among large firms (7.9%). Services (e.g. RR DONNELLEY UK LIMITED), Life Science and three years (0.2%). • Firms with more than 250 employees have seen the largest increase Healthcare (e.g. ENVIGO CRS LIMITED) and High-Tech Manufacturing in turnover throughout the entire period (11.1%), substantially higher (e.g. BOSCH REXROTH LIMITED). LARGEST COMPANIES than that for the Combined Authority (7.8%). • Most of the largest companies active in the area are concentrated • Sectors where large Peterborough-based companies are in non-KI sectors, including Other Business Services (e.g. SERCO represented are Transport and Travel (e.g. THOMAS COOK TOUR LARGEST COMPANIES GROUP PLC), Wholesale and Retail Distribution (e.g. WILKO RETAIL OPERATIONS LIMITED), High-Tech Manufacturing (e.g. PERKINS • A number of the largest companies based in the district belong to LIMITED), Property and Finance (e.g. ROYAL & SUN ALLIANCE ENGINES COMPANY LIMITED), Property and Finance (e.g. BGL High-Tech Manufacturing (e.g. Marshall of Cambridge and DOM- INSURANCE PLC) and Construction and Utilities (e.g. SKANSKA UK GROUP LIMITED and ALDERMORE BANK PLC), Wholesale and INO UK LIMITED) and to Life Science and Healthcare (e.g. PPD PLC). Retail Distribution (e.g. IDEAL SHOPPING DIRECT LIMITED) and GLOBAL LTD, NAPP PHARMACEUTICAL HOLDINGS LIMITED and
COMPARISON WITH BRES Other Business Services (e.g. VITAL RECRUITMENT LIMITED). ABCAM PLC). • Two of the largest companies active in the district (i.e. SKY PLC and • Some of the largest companies that are active in South • Total employment based on Cambridge Ahead data represents AMAZON UK SERVICES LTD.) operate in Information Technology Cambridgeshire are found in Information Technology and approximately 62% of total BRES employment. and Telecoms, while other large companies are found in Other Telecoms (e.g. SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT EUROPE • The largest differences between Cambridge Ahead and BRES Business Services (e.g. TRAVELEX LIMITED), Property and Finance LIMITED and IBM UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED), Knowledge employment estimates are found for Health Services (-8,464), (e.g. RSA INSURANCE GROUP PLC) and Wholesale and Retail Intensive Services (e.g. INTERTEK GROUP PLC) and High-Tech Retail Distribution (-6,720) and Public Services (-4,493). Distribution (e.g. IKEA LIMITED). Manufacturing (e.g. SPIRAX-SARCO ENGINEERING PLC). • Six-year employment growth is 5.0% based on Cambridge Ahead data and 1.7% according to BRES data. 58 APPENDICES APPENDICES 59 Appendix 3
EMPLOYMENT LOCATION QUOTIENTS ACCORDING TO BRES DATA
CAMBRIDGE EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE PETERBOROUGH SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE
LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ (Comb. (Comb. (Comb. (Comb. (LEP = 1) (GB = 1) (LEP = 1) (GB = 1) (LEP = 1) (GB = 1) (LEP = 1) (GB = 1) Auth. = 1) Auth. = 1) Auth. = 1) Auth. = 1)
High-tech manufacturing 0.34 0.34 0.44 High-tech manufacturing 1.21 1.22 1.58 High-tech manufacturing 1.10 1.11 1.43 High-tech manufacturing 1.90 1.92 2.49
Life sciences manufacturing 0.18 0.17 0.19 Life sciences manufacturing 0.65 0.60 0.68 Life sciences manufacturing 0.54 0.50 0.57 Life sciences manufacturing 3.89 3.60 4.10
ICT 1.29 1.71 1.53 ICT 0.51 0.68 0.61 ICT 0.85 1.13 1.01 ICT 1.62 2.15 1.93
R&D 1.32 2.16 9.01 R&D 0.14 0.23 0.94 R&D 0.03 0.05 0.19 R&D 3.62 5.91 24.67
Knowledge intensive services 1.35 1.63 1.89 Knowledge intensive services 1.08 1.31 1.52 Knowledge intensive services 0.39 0.47 0.54 Knowledge intensive services 1.61 1.94 2.25
Sub-total - KI sectors 1.08 1.36 1.68 Sub-total - KI sectors 0.72 0.90 1.11 Sub-total - KI sectors 0.61 0.77 0.95 Sub-total - KI sectors 2.15 2.69 3.32 Primary 0.04 0.03 0.01 Primary 2.10 1.73 0.31 Primary 0.33 0.27 0.05 Primary 0.68 0.56 0.10
Other manufacturing 0.12 0.09 0.12 Other manufacturing 1.34 1.01 1.37 Other manufacturing 0.56 0.42 0.57 Other manufacturing 1.06 0.80 1.08
Property and construction 0.58 0.49 0.49 Property and construction 1.52 1.28 1.28 Property and construction 0.79 0.67 0.67 Property and construction 1.32 1.11 1.11
Utilities 0.74 0.76 0.74 Utilities 1.12 1.15 1.12 Utilities 1.40 1.44 1.41 Utilities 0.53 0.54 0.53
Publishing 1.73 2.44 4.30 Publishing 0.97 1.37 2.41 Publishing 1.12 1.57 2.78 Publishing 0.76 1.07 1.89
Transport and travel 0.36 0.30 0.35 Transport and travel 1.95 1.66 1.90 Transport and travel 1.14 0.97 1.12 Transport and travel 0.77 0.66 0.75
Wholesale distribution 0.31 0.27 0.32 Wholesale distribution 1.04 0.89 1.06 Wholesale distribution 1.29 1.11 1.32 Wholesale distribution 0.97 0.83 0.99
Retail distribution 0.91 0.87 0.91 Retail distribution 0.91 0.87 0.90 Retail distribution 1.34 1.29 1.34 Retail distribution 0.61 0.59 0.61
Hotels, pubs and restaurants 1.35 1.14 1.02 Hotels, pubs and restaurants 1.02 0.86 0.77 Hotels, pubs and restaurants 0.83 0.71 0.63 Hotels, pubs and restaurants 0.80 0.68 0.60
Other business services 0.68 0.72 0.70 Other business services 1.00 1.06 1.03 Other business services 1.53 1.62 1.57 Other business services 0.76 0.81 0.78
Public services 1.05 1.10 0.84 Public services 0.49 0.51 0.39 Public services 0.99 1.04 0.79 Public services 0.43 0.45 0.34
Other Services 1.19 1.19 1.16 Other Services 1.84 1.83 1.80 Other Services 0.90 0.90 0.88 Other Services 0.72 0.72 0.70
Education 2.08 2.35 2.53 Education 0.86 0.97 1.04 Education 0.59 0.67 0.72 Education 0.75 0.85 0.92
Finance and professional services 1.04 1.12 0.70 Finance and professional services 0.54 0.58 0.36 Finance and professional services 1.71 1.84 1.15 Finance and professional services 0.66 0.71 0.45
Health services 1.25 1.30 1.15 Health services 0.56 0.58 0.52 Health services 0.96 0.99 0.88 Health services 0.92 0.95 0.84
Sub-total - Other sectors 0.99 0.95 0.93 Sub-total - Other sectors 1.05 1.01 0.99 Sub-total - Other sectors 1.06 1.03 1.01 Sub-total - Other sectors 0.81 0.78 0.76
FENLAND HUNTINGDONSHIRE
LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ (Comb. (Comb. (LEP = 1) (GB = 1) (LEP = 1) (GB = 1) Auth. = 1) Auth. = 1)
High-tech manufacturing 0.59 0.60 0.78 High-tech manufacturing 0.91 0.92 1.19
Life sciences manufacturing 0.00 0.00 0.00 Life sciences manufacturing 0.39 0.36 0.41
ICT 0.17 0.22 0.20 ICT 0.77 1.03 0.92
R&D 0.01 0.02 0.06 R&D 0.11 0.17 0.72
Knowledge intensive services 0.45 0.54 0.63 Knowledge intensive services 1.02 1.22 1.42
Sub-total - KI sectors 0.29 0.36 0.45 Sub-total - KI sectors 0.71 0.89 1.10 Primary 6.83 5.64 1.02 Primary 0.55 0.45 0.08
Other manufacturing 2.82 2.13 2.89 Other manufacturing 1.80 1.36 1.84
Property and construction 1.18 0.99 0.99 Property and construction 1.23 1.03 1.03
Utilities 0.75 0.77 0.76 Utilities 1.30 1.34 1.31
Publishing 0.29 0.41 0.73 Publishing 0.45 0.63 1.12
Transport and travel 1.59 1.35 1.55 Transport and travel 1.23 1.04 1.20
Wholesale distribution 1.54 1.32 1.57 Wholesale distribution 1.26 1.09 1.29
Retail distribution 0.99 0.95 0.99 Retail distribution 1.06 1.01 1.05
Hotels, pubs and restaurants 0.83 0.70 0.63 Hotels, pubs and restaurants 1.05 0.89 0.79
Other business services 1.00 1.05 1.02 Other business services 0.88 0.93 0.91
Public services 1.04 1.10 0.83 Public services 1.71 1.80 1.36
Other Services 0.71 0.71 0.70 Other Services 0.98 0.98 0.96
Education 0.84 0.95 1.03 Education 0.56 0.63 0.68
Finance and professional services 0.64 0.69 0.43 Finance and professional services 0.61 0.65 0.41
Health services 0.86 0.89 0.79 Health services 1.05 1.09 0.97
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