This study seeks to take stock of where the LEPs are at and where they are heading by analysing their strategies and priorities, organisation and governance, resources, effectiveness and working relations, innovations, lessons learned, and future barriers and challenges.

This article looks at the possible implications of English regional government for the promotion and provision of healthcare. Elected assemblies may allow more locally tailored policies aimed at reducing health inequalities, which vary substantially between regions. They may also increase the...

The paper examines the evolving pattern of regional governance in the English regions since 1997. Only from the middle of 2000 did government policy move beyond the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) and Regional Chambers established in 1998. Enhanced funding and budgetary flexibility for RDAs...