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<p>The 38 Local Enterprise Partnership (LEPs) areas are Black Country; Buckinghamshire
Thames Valley; Cambridge and Peterborough; Cheshire & Warrington; Coast to Capital
LEP; Cornwall & Isles of Scilly; Coventry and Warwickshire; Cumbria; Derby, Derbyshire,
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (D2N2); Dorset LEP; Enterprise M3; Gloucestershire
(GFirst) LEP; Greater Birmingham and Solihull; Greater Lincolnshire; Greater Manchester;
Heart of the South West; Hertfordshire; Humber LEP; Lancashire LEP; Leeds City Region;
Leicester & Leicestershire; Liverpool City Region LEP; London; New Anglia LEP;
North East LEP; Oxfordshire LEP; Sheffield City Region LEP; Solent LEP; South East
LEP; South East Midlands LEP; Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire LEP; Swindon and Wiltshire
LEP; Tees Valley LEP; Thames Valley Berkshire; The Marches; West of England LEP; Worcestershire
LEP and York and North Yorkshire LEP.</p><p> </p><p>The following 12 LEPs have appointed
a board member with an explicit responsibility for rural issues: Cheshire & Warrington;
Cornwall & Isles of Scilly; Dorset LEP; Enterprise M3; Heart of the South West;
New Anglia LEP; North East LEP; South East LEP; South East Midlands LEP; Stoke-on-Trent
and Staffordshire LEP; Swindon and Wiltshire LEP; and York and North Yorkshire LEP.</p><p>
</p><p>Other Local Enterprise Partnerships manage rural issues in a variety of ways,
for example in Gloucestershire (GFirst) there is a member of the LEP agri-food &
rural business sector group on the board, by the appointment of an agri-food champion
(The Marches), through engagement at SME boards (Coventry and Warwickshire) and by
drawing on the expertise of rural organisations (Worcestershire).</p>
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