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IED Webinar – Labour’s first 100 days in government

10 Oct 2024 - Online 1.30-3pm

On 5^th July the Labour Party won a majority in the General Election which saw them return to power for the first time since 2010.

Now, to examine the first 100 days of the new government, we have pulled together an expert panel to allow anyone with an interest in economic development to discuss the key impacts on, and responses required from, economic development and regeneration practitioners working for local and regional communities.

This will include reflection on the King’s Speech, which presented a raft of bills which Ministers want to pass in the next parliamentary session, leading Sir Keir Starmer to promise ‘national renewal’ for the country. From a local government perspective, an English Devolution Bill will streamline the process to transfer more powers to elected mayors in combined council areas. A Planning and Infrastructure Bill will ease the process for approving critical infrastructure, and overhaul roles on the compulsory purchase of land. The Skills England Bill, meanwhile, will set up a new arms-length body of the same name to boost and regionalise training, bringing together businesses, unions and mayoral combined authorities.

This webinar is essential for anyone working in economic development, public, private and third sector. Delegates on the webinar will have the opportunity to pose questions to the panel, and share thinking themselves, in an interactive 90-minute session.

Chair: Nigel Wilcock, Executive Director, Institute of Economic Development

Speaker 1: Tom Stannard, Chair, Institute of Economic Development; and Chief Executive, Salford City Council

Speaker 2: Ciaran Gunne-Jones, Senior Director, Head of Economics Lichfields

Speaker 3: Katie Randall, Associate Director – City Economics and Urban Strategy, Arup

Speaker 4: Daniel Harper, Head of Economic Development - Barnsley Council

This webinar is open to IED members free of charge and at a rate of £50 for non IED members. To register, please visit our Eventbrite page here.

Following this webinar, we also look forward to a stimulating national debate on these opportunities at our Annual Conference, ‘Economic Transition – How do we deliver long-lasting change in our towns, cities and regions?’, on 6^th November. This will be one of the first opportunities for UK economic development practitioners to come in person together to deepen their understanding of the new government’s direction of travel.