Business and skills
We work to represent the interests of the West Yorkshire and promote business growth and workforce skills.
We have worked closely with our partners across the region to develop a strategic vision that promotes good growth, so that everyone can enjoy better opportunities and quality of life.
Enabling a strong and growing local economy is a vital part of delivering on our vision of transforming the West Yorkshire by unlocking its potential and developing a regional powerhouse that will create jobs and prosperity.
To achieve this, West Yorkshire Combined Authority has developed a Strategic Economic Plan that sets out our priorities for growth and development.
We want to achieve both the right quantity and the right quality of growth; creating a strong, productive and resilient economy where a radical uplift in business competitiveness, productivity and profits goes hand in hand with access to good jobs that pay higher wages, and where all residents have access to opportunities and enjoy an improved quality of life.
Find out more about the economic strategy and how we are delivering good growth for West Yorkshire.
We work to represent the interests of the West Yorkshire and promote business growth and workforce skills.
We are building a prosperous West Yorkshire: an inclusive economy with well paid jobs that works for everyone.
Enabling as many people as possible to contribute to, and benefit from, economic growth in our communities, towns and cities.
Our £1billion-plus Local Growth Deal will help transform the West Yorkshire economy, to allow us to make vital upgrades to transport, increase housing, revitalise our towns, invest in a skilled and flexible workforce, support the growth of businesses and build a resource-efficient West Yorkshire.
The Business Support Service brings together the public and private sector partners to provide support and guidance for businesses.
We've produced a free-to-access interactive map sharing all the information about the infrastructure of the Leeds City Region. It includes everything from boundaries, economic context and flood risk to utilities and waste.
Multiply is the free, government funded, adult maths support programme, part of Levelling Up, Skills for Life, the Department for Education and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. In West Yorkshire, Multiply is led by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority as part of the Mayor’s ambition to make West Yorkshire the best place to work, learn and live.
The Combined Authority’s membership is made up of democratically elected councillors from our six West Yorkshire partner councils. We also work with five other nearby councils and districts that are known collectively as Leeds City Region.
We work to deliver an increase in our affordable and sustainable housing and employment site supply, as well as a reduction in fuel poverty and energy efficiency in houses, and a more sustainable energy supply. Alongside this, we work to accelerate and improve the quality of infrastructure. For example, we do this through digital infrastructure improvements, quality place design, and by improving flood resilience.
The State of the Region provides a stocktake of the region using indicators mapped against the five missions of the West Yorkshire Plan.
We’re creating a cleaner, greener and healthier region as we work towards being net zero carbon by 2038 at the latest.
Here in West Yorkshire, we are ambitious, and not afraid to take on challenges. This is our plan to create a brighter West Yorkshire that works for all.
The UK Community Renewal Fund is a £220m Government programme for 2021/22 and represents an exciting new opportunity to help support local areas to pilot imaginative new approaches and programmes that unleash their potential, instil pride, and prepare them to take full advantage of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund when it launches in 2022.
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and a significant component of its support for places across the UK. It provides £2.6 billion of new funding for local investment by March 2025.