Updated LEP League Table

WCC has produced a league table showing the relative performance of the 38 Local Enterprise Partnership areas.  Socio-economic data  was utilised, covering qualifications, labour force, knowledge industry economy and the recent ‘dynamics’ of the economies. For each individual data set, the LEP was ranked in terms of performance – with lowest scores being best and highest being [...]

District/Borough LEA Summaries published

During the development of the Coventry & Warwickshire Local Economic Assessment, it was recognised that local District/Borough LEA summaries would be beneficial to inform work and planning at a local level. The Observatory have been commissioned to undertake these summaries for the five Districts and Boroughs.  See each District/Borough profile below: North Warwickshire LEA Summary Profile Nuneaton & [...]

Coventry & Warwickshire Economic Assessment published

The final draft of the Coventry & Warwickshire Economic Assessment has been published.  Download the document below: Coventry & Warwickshire Economic Assessment – March 2011

Coventry & Warwickshire Local Economic Assessment (draft for consultation)

Warwickshire County Council and Coventry City Council have undertaken a sub-regional economic assessment.  A draft economic assessment has now been produced - partners and stakeholders are invited to comment on this document.  A copy of the draft assessment is available below, along with a response form: Coventry & Warwickshire LEA (Draft) LEA Response Form For more [...]

New figures published on Personal Insolvencies

The Office for National Statistics has just released figures on personal insolvencies in 2009 at the local authority level. Individual insolvencies are made up of bankruptcy orders, Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVAs) and Debt Relief Orders (DROs), which were introduced in April 2009. The dataset can act as a further indicator of the impact of the [...]

Further Analysis on Warwickshire’s ‘Functional Economic Geography’ published

The Observatory has recently published a piece of additional research to gain some further insight into Warwickshire’s ‘Functional Economic Geography’. The research builds upon the July 2010 paper, ‘The Functional Economic Geography of the Coventry, Solihull & Warwickshire Sub-Region’ by Dave Hill (WCC) and forms part of a series of technical reports to inform Warwickshire’s [...]