Posts tagged: economy

Who do you call to speak to the North East?

8 March 2012 – 11:14 am

I attended the North East Economic Forum last week over in Gateshead. It was the first forum to be held since the inception of the Local Enterprise Partnerships so an interesting time to hear what was being said about the region now in economic planning terms we are split into two. It was a credit [...]

By Carrie Brookes | Posted in North East economy | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Public service and volunteers

16 March 2011 – 1:08 pm

Increasingly lately I have been asked about my views on the role of volunteers in delivering public services.  I guess it is a natural question arising from the Big Society hoopla. Well first thing I want to do is to say the following is my view and not VONNE’s view, my colleagues have a different [...]

By John Main | Posted in Big Society, Commissioning and procurement, North East economy, Volunteering | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

UK economy contracts

25 January 2011 – 10:55 am

News out today that the UK economy contracted by 0.5% in the final quarter of 2010.  Although the impact of the weather carries some mitigation, with last week’s announcements of increased unemployment, higher inflation and the cuts in public sector spending due to impact from April, are we at risk of dipping back into recession?

By John Main | Posted in North East economy, Uncategorised | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Will the North East still exist on Monday?

2 September 2010 – 9:59 am

VONNE understands that there are likely to be at least 4 Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) proposals submitted from the North East to Government in the next few days. VONNE supports the move by Business and Local Authority Leaders to submit a proposal to develop a North East Strategic Economic Partnership which will ensure that European [...]

By Jo Curry | Posted in North East economy | Also tagged , , | Comments (1)

Bigger and stronger, but….

27 August 2010 – 4:31 pm

News today that the UK economy has grown in the second quarter by more than intially thought.   The intial estimate was 1.1% and the revised figure is 1.2%.  Not much but a step in the right direction. But as soon as this ’good news’ is announced what happens?  Well we get the following: “But most economists do [...]

By John Main | Posted in In the news, North East economy | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

A question about the emergency budget.

25 June 2010 – 4:12 pm

I have sat down and tried to write a piece about the emergency budget since it was announced on Tuesday (22/06/10).  This is probably draft number 104.  Like the scoreboard in the Mahut/Isner match at Wimbledon, I lost count after a while. Now you should think it would be easy to give a comment or [...]

By John Main | Posted in Campaigning, In the news, North East economy, Policy and Representation Partnership, Regeneration | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)