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DCLG has no plans to cut number of LEPs

Ministers have ‘no plans’ to reduce the number of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has confirmed.

Ministers have ‘no plans' to reduce the number of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has confirmed.

Former communities secretary Eric Pickles had suggested before the election that their number should fall this Parliament but a DCLG spokesman told The MJ the Government would not ‘impose reductions in these locally-defined and voluntary partnerships'.

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