Recommendation 32

The paucity of agreed Local Industrial Strategies ultimately limited the contribution of local insights and intelligence into national industrial policy. However, co-creation of industrial policy at local and national level is the right approach and was a strength of the Industrial Strategy. We share the Industrial Strategy Council’s concern that mechanisms for such co-creation are absent from the Plan for Growth. The Government’s levelling up agenda will be stronger if local insights and intelligence continue to inform national-level industrial policy, but the move away from the Local Industrial Strategy model will make this more difficult. (Paragraph 116) Post-pandemic economic growth: Industrial policy in the UK 53