SEEDAS FIRST YEAR

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SEEDAS FIRST YEAR

• Progress, Priorities and Budgets
• Anthony Dunnett
• Chief Executive

24 March 2000
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A Strong Start

• Setting up the operation
• Building on Partnership Links
• Board Committee networks
• Co-operating with the Assembly and Partners
• And .

3
Regional Economic Strategy

• The Regions Strategy
• Team Effort
• An extensive consultation process
• Endorsed by Government

4
Business Development

• 6 Sector Groups established
• Inward Investment - Intel, Schwab, Providian,
  Sourcenet
• A new Aftercare programme underway
• Individual Regional Events
• -Oxford Science and Technology Day, jointly with
  Oxford University
• - Pfizer Day

5
Enterprise Development

• Enterprise Hubs - Ready for Launch
• Wired Region - Early thoughts on the Regional
  Portal concept
• National lead on enterprise issues
• Regional Funds

6
Learning and Skills

• Skills Action Plan
• SEEDA Village
• Regional Skills Research Unit - jointly funded
  with TECs
• Skills Development Fund
• Value added initiatives

7
Regeneration

• SRB
• Total amounts to over 268 million
• 70 million funding to be allocated next year
• Land and Property
• Successfully delivered 30 million Land
  Property programme
• Twice the spend on 1999/2000
• Rural
• Delivery of 160 Regeneration Projects

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Regeneration

• SRB Funding Breakdown Rounds 1 to 5 (millions)
• Schemes Spend
• Oxfordshire 7 10.0m
• Bucks 4 4.5m
• Berks 8 19.0m
• Hants 5 85.0m
• Surrey 2 3.5m
• Isle of Wight 2 7.5m
• E.Sussex 11 67.5m
• W.Sussex 4 7.0m
• Kent 23 63.0m

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Budgets
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Board Committee Restructure

• Business - Caroline Williams
• Learning and Workforce - Clive Booth
• Infrastructure - Janis Kong
• Sustainable Development - Kit Oliver
• Regeneration and Communities - Kevin Wilson
• Rural Development - Sarah Ward
• Joint Europe Committee - Ken Bodfish
• Audit and Remuneration - Caroline Williams
• Future Think - Allan Willett