Norfolk and Suffolk Clean Growth Taskforce

Monday 8

November 2021

Agenda Item 2

Governance update

Author: Ellen Goodwin

Summary

This paper looks at the role of the Norfolk and Suffolk Clean Growth Taskforce. It includes

updates on membership as well as clarifications on declarations of interest and substitutions.

Recommendations

The Taskforce are asked to:

 note the clarifications provided by the report;

 provide a register of interests to be held by the LEP; and

 approve the amended terms of reference for the Taskforce.

Background

At the first meeting of the Clean Growth Taskforce the Group challenged the terms of

reference with respect to membership, declarations of interest and substitutions. This paper

sets out to provide clarification as well as an update on these points.

Membership

Members have been sought from the Digital/ICT Industry Council and the Financial Industry

sector. In addition, the LEP Executive has continued to seek members from the Business

Growth Programme Partnership Board. Will Bridgman of Warren Services has agreed to

join the Taskforce representing the New Anglia Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering

Board. The LEP Executive will continue to seek members for the Taskforce accordingly.

Terms of reference

Conflicts of interest

Conflicts of interest are already covered by the Taskforce’s terms of reference. Members

are asked to provide a register of interests to be held by the LEP.

Substitutions

Where an in individual represents a group or Board they must be substituted by an

equivalent member and that member must be notified to the secretariat before the meeting.

Where members represent more than one group or Board, multiple substitutes will be

considered by the Chair. If an individual represents themselves, they cannot be substituted.

Appendix A – terms of reference (2021)

Appendix A – Terms of Reference for Clean Growth Taskforce

Purpose of

the

Taskforce:

To provide leadership and collaboration on Net Zero. Promoting Norfolk

and Suffolk as the UK’s Clean Growth Region helping to raise the profile

of the major contribution the area plays in the UK’s transition to a post

carbon economy, representing the area nationally, regionally, and locally.

To drive the shared ambition for a clean and inclusive economic recovery

that tackles the challenges and opportunities of climate change.

Functions: Members of the Taskforce will be expected to:

i. Attend meetings, contribute ideas, experience, expertise, and resource

as considered appropriate, and gather views from colleagues in

respective group, industries or organisations.

ii. Oversee the development of the key areas of focus further developing

the action plan and engaging relevant partners to securing their buy in to

deliver the action, through respective groups and networks.

iii. Provide direction to creating a clean growth evidence baseline that

identifies and recommends to the LEP board the areas of focus that the

biggest gains can be achieved, and which actions will be focused on.

iv. Promote Norfolk and Suffolk as the UK’s Clean Growth Region helping

to raise the profile of the major contribution the area plays in the UK’s

transition to a post carbon economy, representing the area national,

regionally and locally.

v. Ensure clean growth is embedded in the discussion, actions and

decision of your respective group, reporting back to the Taskforce as

appropriate.

vi. Recommend or source appropriate experts to inform certain aspects of

the action plan, convene working groups as appropriate and consult with

sector peers as agreed within the Taskforce under the direction of the

Chair.

vii. Oversee the development and agree robust ways of measuring and

monitoring the impact of interventions and actions, making

recommendations to the LEP board on any relevant targets or pledges.

viii. provide the LEP Board with six monthly progress reports.

ix. Annually, bring together the wider network of clean growth champions

to share knowledge and best practice and hold regional partners to

account.

Membership:

The Taskforce would have an independent chair and be accountable to

the LEP Board.

With a representative from the LEP Board and one from each LEP of the

sub board – LEP’s Innovation Board, Skills Advisory Panel, Transport

Board and Business Growth Programme Board. In addition,

representatives from businesses across Norfolk and Suffolk, FE, HE and

the County Climate Change Boards.

Substitutions:

Where an in individual represents a group or Board they must be

substituted by an equivalent member and that member must be notified to

the secretariat before the meeting. Where members represent more than

one group or Board, multiple substitutes will be considered by the Chair.

If an individual represents themselves, they cannot be substituted.

Frequency The Taskforce would initially meet every 6 to 8 weeks looking to move to

quarterly meetings once established.

Accountability

The taskforce would report to the LEP Board.

Reporting

procedures

The agenda and minutes of meetings will be published on the LEP

website and the Taskforce will report to the LEP Board through the sub

board reporting mechanism.

Attendance of

non-members

meetings

Members of the LEP team, sub boards, committees and Local Authorities

may also be invited to attend meetings where appropriate.

Delegated

Authority

Can hold other groups – including Task and Finish groups – to account. It

has the authority to task a sub-board, group or committee to deliver action

within the delivery plan.

Where the Taskforce convenes working groups, it should set out the terms

of reference for the working group to guide its objectives, ways of working,

handling of information and

the rules on external communication.

Managing

Conflicts of

Interest

Members of the Taskforce are all representatives of their industry sector

or community of interests and have a responsibility to act on behalf of

their wider constituency at all times in relation to the work of the LEP

Clean Growth Taskforce.

Members of the board will be asked to complete an annual declaration of

their interests which will be held in a register at the LEP office and

members will be asked at the beginning of each meeting to declare any

conflicts of interest pertaining to the agenda items to

be discussed.

Review

The ToR of the Taskforce will be review annually and agreed by the LEP

board.

Norfolk and Suffolk Clean Growth Taskforce

Monday 8

November 2021

Agenda Item 5

Clean growth progress

Author: Ellen Goodwin

Summary

This paper looks at the clean growth progress made since the Taskforce’s first meeting and

seeks a steer on next steps and the development of the Taskforce’s Action Plan.

Recommendations

The Taskforce is asked to:

 Note, review and comment on the content of the report;

 Provide feedback on the definition of ‘clean growth’: Growing an environmentally

positive and resilient economy by exploiting the region’s strengths, driving the adoption

of clean technology, efficient use of natural resources and reducing waste,

accelerating sustainable infrastructure, equipping and empowering business and

people to take advantage of the opportunities in moving to a zero-carbon economy;

and

 Provide feedback on next steps and the action plan for the Taskforce moving

forward.

Background

Green Economy Pathfinder

Norfolk and Suffolk were the Government’s Green Economy Pathfinder between 2012 and

2015. The key objectives of the Pathfinder were:

 Norfolk and Suffolk leading the green economy

 Maximising funding and investment opportunities

 Enable innovative, entrepreneurial and radical solution to business challenges and

opportunities

 Drive cost, resources and energy efficiency across all sectors

 Communicate effectively and share information to drive sustainable growth regionally

and nationally

At the LEP Board meeting on 23 June 2015 the Pathfinder reported the following notable

successes:

 Leading region leveraging investment in low carbon energy generation and supply

 £10m ESIF funds focussed on low carbon growth and climate change adaptation

 Growing Places supporting leading low carbon investments

 New Sustainability Criteria for ESIF and LEP funds

 Strengthening inward investment offer for our energy sector Enterprise Zone

 Increased visibility of investment funds through Low Carbon Innovation Fund, with a

portfolio currently worth in excess £100m

 Broads National Park designation strengthens region’s natural capital investment

 The Green 100 campaign, supported by Archant

 New and innovative Business Resource Efficiency programmes, supported by the

Growth Hub

The success of the Pathfinder shows the area’s long-term commitment to clean growth.

Introduction

This paper covers the key areas of the Clean Growth Taskforce and addresses some of the

key queries the Taskforce made at its inaugural meeting:

 Evidence and impact – oversee the development of Clean Growth evidence and

impact

 Leadership and collaboration – be Ambassadors for the Clean Growth region at

home and elsewhere

 Workforce for the Future – work with the Skills Advisory Panel to shape the

Decarbonisation Academy proposal and the wider clean growth skills agenda

 Decarbonising Transport – work with the Transport Board to influence the

development of the Alternative Fuel Strategy and Action Plan and its subsequent

delivery

 Transition Business Support – work with the Business Growth Programme

Partnership Board to oversee the delivery of the Road to Net Zero Business Support

Programme and any wider clean growth programme embedment

Evidence and Impact

The Economic Renewal Plan

The draft Economic Renewal Plan has clean growth at its heart and focusses on people,

business and place as well as our strategic opportunities of clean energy, digital/ICT and

agri-food. It defines clean growth as “Growing an environmentally positive and resilient

economy by exploiting the region’s strengths, driving the adoption of clean technology,

efficient use of natural resources and reducing waste, accelerating sustainable

infrastructure, equipping and empowering business and people to take advantage of the

opportunities in moving to a zero-carbon economy.”

The Taskforce is asked for it’s thoughts on this definition.

Mapping

Whilst clean growth and net zero are critical areas of focus for the LEP, there are already a

number of organisations and partnerships doing constructive work in this space. The

Taskforce agreed at its inaugural meeting that it must add value and not duplicate activity.

As such the LEP executive has mapped the focus of some of the key groups in the clean

growth space below to help shape the Taskforce’s focus moving forward:

Workforce of

the Future

Decarbonising

Transport

Business

Support

New Anglia LEP:

 Building Growth Group

 All Energy Industry Council

 Agri-food Council

 Transport Board

 Skills Advisory Panel

 Business Growth Programme

Partnership Board

Norfolk Climate Change Partnership,

Strategic Planning Forum and other

local partnerships

X X

Suffolk Climate Change, Environment

and Energy Board, Climate Change

Partnership, Suffolk Growth

Partnership and District

Groups/Taskforces

Suffolk Sustainability Institute

Norfolk and Suffolk Groups:

EV Network, 25-year Environment

Plan steering group

Chambers Business Climate Leaders

X X

Regional groups/work inc. Transport

East, Natural Capital East, Hydrogen

East, Net Zero East, Water Resources

East

X X

The Taskforce is asked to review this mapping and highlight any specific omissions,

noting that the exercise is not designed to be exhaustive.

Leadership and Collaboration

The Taskforce provides leadership and collaboration and promotes Norfolk and Suffolk as

the UK’s Clean Growth Region helping to raise the profile of the major contribution the area

plays in the UK’s transition to a post carbon economy, representing the area nationally,

regionally and locally.

Clean Growth for Business

Our Clean Growth for Business programme brings together free webinars, a new podcast

and bank of online resources. It is aimed at encouraging businesses to take their first steps

on the journey to Net Zero, providing practical advice and top tips to help them make simple,

low-cost changes.

We have built a single online hub of information – it includes our event calendar, links to our

podcast episodes, six pages of useful online links and tools and recordings of all our

webinars.

To date, the page has received more than 1,500 unique visits – the fourth most visited page

on our site in October.

We have published five episodes of the podcast and produced two blogs from these

interviews, with more to come.

So far, we have hosted 7 of our 10 planned events. 179 people have joined the events so

far, with a further 70 booked for the remaining events. This includes our COP 26 Regional

Roadshow event with Hydrogen East, on 4 November.

The recordings of the sessions have been watched 87 times.

Feedback so far:

63% of attendees found the webinars ‘extremely useful’ to help them make changes in their

business. The remaining 37% said they found the information ‘quite useful and need to do

some further research.”

75% found the information extremely or quite useful to help them make changes at home or

in their personal life.

We have asked attendees about the actions they are looking to take following the sessions:

 One is looking to install solar panels

 One is looking at options for electric fleet vehicles

 One is working with event suppliers to ensure they take away and recycle their own

packaging

 One is looking into the impact of their website and web searches

 One is now looking to deliver digital sustainability training in house

Additional feedback:

“I just listened to the 'Transport & Travel' Webinar, that was recorded. Just to say, that I

found it very good – it’s nice that this sort of thing is being addressed now, rather than being

an 'awkward' subject to approach!!” Ben Walsh, Cambridge

“Really insightful session, making me think about how much we are already doing and how

we need to measure our current deliverables, to start us thinking about what’s important to

us as a business, within our industry, with the supply chain, within the region and also to us

as people, in our working worlds and personal ones.” Rebecca Harris, Evander

“I've attended three of these events so far, and they've all been excellent. Yesterday's was

on Digital sustainability and I came away with ideas to use both in business and at home -

for example as sending an email with a “long and tiresome attachment” can have a carbon

footprint of 50g CO2e and according to Tim Berners-Lee a typical year of incoming mail

adds 136kg of emissions to a person's carbon footprint, or the equivalent of “driving 200

miles in an average car”. So, here's to some guilt-free unsubscribing from all those

overwhelming emails I never have time to read anyway.” Gem Thompson, leading lives

“Just to say that really was a brilliant seminar, I honestly had no idea that my digital footprint

was such a thing.” Clare Harding, West Suffolk Council

Members of the Taskforce have inputted to content as part of this programme namely Pete

Joyner, Will Bridgman, Genevieve Christie, Ali Clabburn and Johnathan Reynolds.

The Taskforce is asked for its thoughts on its ongoing input to Clean Growth for

Business.

Clean Growth Ambassador Network

The Clean Growth Ambassador Network will be developed during the coming months to

create an opportunity to share activity, develop innovative ideas and hold each other to

account on delivering the region’s clean growth aspirations as the UK Clean Growth Region.

It is proposed that this event take place in March 2022.

The Taskforce is asked for its thoughts on scope at this stage.

LEP Executive and sustainability policy

The LEP Executive has an internal working group where each service area is represented.

It is looking at the organisation’s carbon footprint and how we can reduce our impact through

our operations as well as our supply chain.

The Taskforce is asked to consider if there is anything in particular, they would like

the group to consider as part of their ongoing work programme.

Workforce for the Future

The Decarbonisation Academy pilot is an opportunity to deliver on our ambitions as the UK’s

Clean Growth region through:

 Developing the workforce needed to decarbonise our economy

 Providing new training and skills

 Supporting innovation and new technology

 Promoting training and commercial opportunities to businesses

To meet the Government’s commitment of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, the UK’s

housing stock and heating systems will need upgrading on an unprecedented scale. Five

homes will need to be decarbonised every minute for the next 30 years requiring a

significant number of low carbon jobs.

The Decarbonisation Academy pilot project will develop the infrastructure needed to support

the rapid deployment of high-quality training programmes needed to deliver cutting-edge

property decarbonisation schemes. The project will address supply chain and education

challenges to establish a system which delivers the best outcomes for customers.

We will work with partners – our education institutes, businesses and the public sector – to

develop our Decarbonisation Academy pilot proposal across five key areas:

 Curriculum development – supporting the current workforce to upskill and reskill as

well as supporting the new entries

 Decarbonisation Infrastructure – mapping out the scale of the opportunity.

Nationally, the pilots are focused on retrofitting social housing from a heating

perspective. At a local level we care keen to expand this looking at new build,

commercial space, transport and other infrastructure.

 Market Forces – considering how to support and create market forces, including

career aspiration

 Commercialisation – exploring how the Decarbonisation Academy can enable

businesses to take advantage of new opportunities and technologies

 Research runs through all of the above – developing living labs to ensure people

can learn in real life environments and on new innovations

Local FE provision is already delivering on clean growth through the following:

 Suffolk New College’s net zero centre and relevant land & wildlife course updates at

Suffolk Rural

 West Suffolk College’s Sustainability Centre

 City College Norwich Digi-Tech Factory and updates on wildlife & conservation

courses at Easton

 East Coast’s Energy Skills Centre update

 College of West Anglia Electric Vehicle training

The recently launched Institute of Productivity: Productivity East offers an advanced

manufacturing and engineering slant on clean growth challenge.

In addition, the Institute of Technology bid, led by the University of Suffolk is still going

through the appraisal process. This has a strong net zero ambition and many of our FE/HE

partners are involved.

A broader update on this will be received at the meeting.

Decarbonising Transport

Element Energy has been commissioned to deliver the Alternative Fuel Strategy for East

Anglia – a project New Anglia LEP is working on with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Combined Authority (CPCA).

The key objectives of the Alternative Fuel Strategy and Accompanying Action Plan are to

provide:

 An understanding of the current policy and funding landscape for alternative fuels at

local and national level

 An evidence base of likely alternative fuel uptake and best practice policy for

supporting this uptake

 A costed and deliverable programme of measures to address barriers to uptake,

which reflects the specific challenges and opportunities of the region

The project has begun with the Inception Meeting covering existing local work including

Norfolk’s EV Strategy, the Suffolk Climate Emergency Plan and Transport East’s draft

Transport Strategy. It also covered their approach to stakeholder engagement, including

both the public and private sector, including the Clean Growth Taskforce and the Transport

Board. Updates will be received fortnightly as the project develops with the Strategy due for

completion at the end of March 2022.

Element Energy will attend the Clean Growth Taskforce meeting to present their overall

approach and get input with respect to the following work packages:

Transition Business Support

The Road to Net Zero Business Support Programme is a pilot initiative designed to pro-

actively pivot business support and grants on a net zero future, building business advice

expertise, and developing a portfolio of tested interventions which can be rolled out further in

future.

If successful it will provide:

 The University of East Anglia will map sectoral opportunities in the net zero journey

and in partnership with University of Suffolk define business wants/needs to inform

understanding of decarbonisation constraints/opportunities. Evidence will shape

programme support and define advisory focal points.

 A dedicated resource within the New Anglia Growth Hub, trained by Groundwork

East, and the Chambers’ of Commerce, including training of existing advisers to pivot

mainstream business advice to a net zero focus. The Growth Hub element of this

has already been delivered through match funding from BEIS.

 Online toolkits/resources for partners to share/promote in their peer groups to

support and enhance direct support and to showcase best practice.

 Grants from £1,000-£25,000, at a 75% intervention rate, to support businesses

towards net zero with measurable practical interventions. The offer builds on

evidenced demand from various decarbonisation projects including Business Energy

and Efficiency Anglia, and the Low Carbon Innovation Fund, alongside intelligence

gathered from Growth Hub and Chamber enquiries.

 1-3 days consultancy from our pool of procured experts for businesses, building on

the LEP’s successful Business Resilience and Recovery consultancy scheme and

introducing a net zero emphasis. Business audits will help identify the net zero ‘first

step’.

 A Net Zero Challenge Fund offering £25,000+ to businesses at an attractive 100%

intervention rate. Project partners will set challenges and assess submissions.

We are still awaiting the outcome of our funding application.

Recommendations

The Taskforce is asked to:

 Note, review and comment on the content of the report;

 Provide feedback on the definition of ‘clean growth’: Growing an environmentally

positive and resilient economy by exploiting the region’s strengths, driving the adoption

of clean technology, efficient use of natural resources and reducing waste,

accelerating sustainable infrastructure, equipping and empowering business and

people to take advantage of the opportunities in moving to a zero-carbon economy;

and

 Provide feedback on next steps and the action plan for the Taskforce moving

forward.

Norfolk and Suffolk Clean Growth Taskforce

Monday 8

November 2021

Agenda Item 7

Forward Plan

Author: Ellen Goodwin

Summary

This paper seeks the Taskforce’s input to the Forward Plan with the view of successfully

delivering embedding clean growth across Norfolk and Suffolk.

Recommendation

The Taskforce offers suggested input to the Forward Plan.

Background

The Clean Growth Taskforce has the following objectives:

 Evidence and impact – oversee the development of Clean Growth evidence and

impact

 Leadership and collaboration – be Ambassadors for the Clean Growth region at

home and elsewhere

 Workforce for the Future – shape the Decarbonisation Academy proposal and the

wider clean growth skills agenda

 Decarbonising Transport – influence the development of the Alternative Fuel Strategy

and Action Plan and its subsequent delivery

 Transition Business Support – oversee the delivery of the Road to Net Zero Business

Support Programme and any wider clean growth programme embedment

Appendix A outlines a draft forward plan for the Taskforce’s input. The Taskforce are asked

to consider what items it would like to consider as part of its forward plan.

Appendix A – Clean Growth Taskforce Forward Plan

New Anglia

Clean Growth Taskforce

Forward Plan

Date

Theme

Agenda

January 2022 Business Support

 Net zero business support programme update

 Sector focus – tbd



Alternative Fuel Strategy

March 2022 Ambassador Event and

Taskforce Meeting

 tbd

May 2022



July 2022



October 2022



December 2022



Norfolk and Suffolk Clean Growth Taskforce

Agenda

2pm, Monday 8

November – Teams

2.00 1. Welcome and introductions

Pete Joyner

2.05 2. Minutes and matters arising

 Governance clarifications and membership update

Pete Joyner

2.10 3. Government’s Net Zero Strategy/COP26 reflections

 Providing a summary and Taskforce feeding into the

action plan development

Ellen Goodwin

2.25 4. Alternative Fuel Strategy

 Strategy introduction and Taskforce input into its

development

Katherine Orchard,

Element Energy

3.00 5. Clean growth progress

 Providing an update and Taskforce feeding into the

action plan development

Ellen Goodwin

3.25 6. Skills update

 Providing an update to note

Nikos Savvas

3.50 7. Any other business

 Forward Plan development

All

Officer Contact

If you have any questions about matters contained on this agenda, please get in touch

with:

Ellen Goodwin 07384 258662 [email protected]

Meeting Note

In attendance:

Dayle Bayliss Dayle Bayliss Ltd. (Skills Advisory Panel)

Genevieve Christie Firstlight Festival

Ali Clabburn Liftshare (Transport Board)

Nigel Davies Muntons

Viv Gillespie Suffolk New College (FE Principals)

Ellen Goodwin New Anglia LEP

Lorraine Gore Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk

(Norfolk Climate Change Partnership)

Pete Joyner Shorthose Russell (LEP Board Member and Chair)

Jill Korwin West Suffolk Council (Suffolk Climate Change,

Environment and Energy Board)

Andrew Lovett UEA

Jack Raven EDF Energy

Johnathan Reynolds Opergy (Innovation Board)

Lisa Roberts New Anglia LEP

Apologies

Julia Pyke EDF Energy

Nikos Savvas West Suffolk College (FE Principals)

1. Welcome and introductions

Pete Joyner welcomed the members of the Clean Growth Taskforce and set the scene

from his perspective. He outlined his high-level thoughts with regard to what the

Taskforce ought to focus on: leadership and collaboration, promoting Norfolk & Suffolk

as a clean growth region and clean recovery.

Lisa Roberts went on to outline why Norfolk and Suffolk was the UK’s Clean Growth

Region and the approach the New Anglia LEP is currently taking to developing the

Economic Renewal Plan for Norfolk and Suffolk for which Clean Growth is a golden

thread.

2. The scale of the opportunity

Andrew Lovett outlined the scale of the opportunity in terms of greenhouse gas emission

reductions between 2005 and 2019, the sectoral breakdown and how proportionally how

things have changed over the same period and the significant point source emitters

across the area.

JR asked AL about the sectoral breakdown and the greater influence of transport over

time and in Norfolk and Suffolk and asked his view on carbon budgets versus

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emissions. AL suggested both emissions and carbon budgets are important to consider.

LG asked about the point source emitters. AL highlighted that many of the point source

emitters were from the agricultural and energy sectors.

3. A shared ambition?

Lisa Roberts outlined thinking with respect to developing a shared ambition and asked

the Taskforce what clean growth meant to them. In summary comments included:

 The importance of succinct and clear messaging:

o Does clean growth do this? Could net zero or climate positive be a better

phrase/approach to take?

o The importance of the UN’s sustainability goals although it was recognised

that sustainability means different things to different people.

o The importance of place as part of Norfolk and Suffolk’s USP.

 Clean growth helps to deliver net zero but both are important:

o Water, energy and just transition were highlighted as areas that needed to

be considered alongside net zero in order to deliver clean and inclusive

growth in Norfolk and Suffolk.

o The importance of carbon credits and using the supply chain to deliver

with offsetting being the last resort.

ACTION – refine the clean growth narrative based on the work of the Local

Industrial Strategy. Any ambition and any associated impact indicators need to

be based on evidence.

ACTION – Taskforce members’ to highlight their approach to net zero and clean

growth as part of the forward plan of the Taskforce.

4. The initial focus of the Taskforce

Lisa Roberts and Ellen Goodwin outlined the initial key areas for the Taskforce that have

already begun and the focus for the first six months:

 Leadership and collaboration

o Input to the Business Learning Month starting 22 September

o Co-create a wider stakeholder event in early 2022 to build momentum

 Evidence and impact

o Refine clean growth messaging and ambition ahead of next meeting as

above

o Feed into the Economic Renewal Plan over the coming months

 Focus:

o Workforce of the future

 Oversee Decarbonisation Academy business case development

ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review

o Sustainable Connectivity

 Engage with the development of the Alternative Fuel Strategy and

ensure it meets both the needs of private & public sector by the end

of the year

o Supporting Business to Net Zero

 Ensure programme spend by the end of March 2022 (if successful)

Comments from the Taskforce included:

 Need to consider how Norfolk and Suffolk ‘lead the way ‘as the Clean Growth

region – what are our opportunities to influence? How do we engage MPs?

 Importance of adding value and consistency – Suffolk public sector approach

achieves this in part.

 This agenda binds industry together in a way that has not happened previously –

cross sector opportunities – holistic and whole life approach including supply

chain critical.

ACTION – map who’s doing what across the area. Refer to previous initiatives to

learn lessons to feed into future work. Need to understand how it all ‘fits

together’.

5. Terms of reference

The Taskforce referred to the Terms of Reference and queried whether industry

representation was sufficient. It was noted that the Taskforce did not want to duplicate

the effort of other groups nor become too unwieldy. The LEP’s Industry Councils will be

engaged as part of the Renewal Plan process in September.

ACTION – review membership and reach of Taskforce

AGREED – the Board agreed the terms of reference subject to the membership

review described above. The terms of reference also need to refer to declarations

of interest and substitutions.

6. Any other business

DONM – not a Monday or Tuesday. Doodle poll to be circulated.