This Mayoral Combined Authority will support businesses to create jobs across the North East. We will ensure people have the skills to access work and provide the right conditions for economic growth.
We will ensure support and investment in a wide range of economic drivers: from advanced manufacturing to the cultural sector, from skills training to good transport.
This focus will see the Mayoral Combined Authority work with our businesses, universities, and the research and innovation catapults to unlock higher levels of R&D and innovation funding, and to ensure the region transitions to a digitally enabled economy that supports people in employment.
We will ensure economic growth reaches all parts of the North East, with targeted support for rural and coastal areas. It’s important that we continue to sell the North East, and the Mayoral Combined Authority will progress a North East brand that builds on our remarkable creative, cultural, sports, and visitor economy assets, in alignment with our investment in these areas.