Inclusive Growth Ambition

Background to our Ambition

Covid-19 has had obvious impacts on our economy, both exacerbating long-standing inequalities within our communities, and the immediate constraints on the ability of businesses to operate ‘normally’. It has changed the way we think about place and how we use our spaces, as well as how we travel, work and shop. The repercussions were felt in the first instance by young people, low earners and women in the labour market, linked in part to longer-term concerns regarding low productivity and recent job growth being too often concentrated in low skilled, low-paid employment.

However, Leeds has strong foundations from which to recover and will continue be the main driver of economic growth for the city-region. The city has a diverse, knowledge-based, economy, linked to our universities and teaching hospitals, which are major innovation assets. We have a dynamic business sector with strengths in digital and medical technologies, telecoms and creative industries, all sectors likely to be increasingly important in our future economy.

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