Guidance

Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) national assurance framework

A national LEP assurance framework which guides local decision making to support accountability, transparency and value for money.

• From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 12 December 2014

This publication was withdrawn on 25 November 2016

A revised version of the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) national assurance framework was published on 10 November 2016.

Documents

Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Assurance Framework

Ref: BIS/14/1241

PDF, 581 KB, 17 pages

Details

In July 2014, the government negotiated a Growth Deal with all 39 Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), which awarded a significant proportion of the £12 billion Local Growth Fund to LEPs.

This document is a single assurance framework covering all government funding flowing through LEPs, to ensure they have robust value for money processes in place. It sets out what government expects LEPs to cover in their local assurance frameworks.

As part of their Growth Deal, LEPs will be expected to use this national framework to inform how they work locally, which must be set out in their own local assurance framework. LEPs will have considerable freedom to determine how to implement the practices and standards in this national framework.

Published 12 December 2014