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New Anglia Investment Appraisal Committee
Public Meeting Minutes (Confirmed)
24th November 2021
Present:
Committee Members
Kathy Atkinson (KA)
Kettle Foods
David Ellesmere (DE)
Ipswich Borough Council
Dominic Keen (DK)
High Growth Robotics
Andrew Proctor (AP)
Norfolk County Council
Alan Waters (AW)
Norwich City Council
Martin Williams (MW)
Independent IAC Member
In Attendance
Rosanne Wijnberg (RW)
New Anglia LEP
Chris Dashper (CD)
New Anglia LEP
ID
Helen Wilton (HW)
New Anglia LEP
Melanie Richardson (MR)
New Anglia LEP
ACTIONS
1
Welcome from the Chair
David Ellesmere (DE) welcomed everyone to the meeting. It was agreed that item 9 would be addressed
first on the agenda as MW had to leave the meeting early.
2
Apologies
None
3
Declarations of Interest
AP noted that NCC was mention in the papers for Item 9 but confirmed he did not have an ongoing
interest in the One Farm project.
4
Minutes of previous meeting 22nd September 2021
The minutes of the last meeting were agreed as accurate.
5
Horizon Paper and GPF Repayments – Confidential
The Committee agreed:
To note the content of the report
6,
6d
Growing Business Fund Programme Performance Report and GBF, SGS and GTI and grant
award appendices
CD confirmed that as of 23rd November £2.2m has been spent with a further £900k committed leaving
just under £1m to commit. Ad hoc GBF panels are being set up to consider projects which can use the
spend in time.
GBF and R&R both have time limited budgets therefore progress of the projects is being carefully
managed.
SGS has been paused until January to allow time to monitor existing grant approvals and complete the
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process for extending the scheme which will restart in January 2022.
Enquiries to GTI have dropped and a change request is being submitted to amend the programme to
allow for more approvals.
The Committee agreed:
To note the content of the report
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Resilience and Recovery Programme Performance Report
CD advised that £187k is available to spend and the scheme is being used as a possible alternative to
GBF as if projects are not suitable to receive those funds.
CD noted that the contract with Finance East ends in December but will need to be extended to the end
of the financial year.
CD presented the new style report format and it was agreed that the GBF would be shown in the same
way next month.
The Committee agreed:
To note the content of the report
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IPF Calls 1 & 2 Programme Performance Report and IPF 2 project RAG rating appendix
CD reiterated that the projects had been significantly impacted by the pandemic but generally were
processing. The Amber ratings largely relate to administrative and recruitment issues but were still
proceeding. Spend profiles are being reached and claims are being processed.
The Committee agreed:
To note the content of the report
9
Growing Places Fund Investment update, One Farm - Confidential
10
AOB
None
