Heseltine visit to Staffordshire on cards

How Staffordshire is bucking the trend in employment and economic growth has caught national attention…

Ok, nowhere is ‘flying’ in economic terms but it is a statistical fact that our county is doing far better than just about anywhere else in the UK.

It hasn’t ‘just happened’… as I’ve said many times before. We’ve worked hard to up the anti on the attractiveness of Staffordshire as a place to do business nationally and internationally. And it’s working!

We’ve supported viable businesses, where banks have failed to do that, right across Staffordshire meaning hundreds of new jobs created and saved. And we’ve invested heavily in apprenticeships, new start up business parks (in the right places!) and generally providing infrastructure and practical reasons for external investment.

So it certainly is working. And it’s because of the approach we’ve taken in Staffordshire which is very different to other parts of the UK. A different political approach and an inbuilt understanding of what business wants and how it works… but also how this fits with Staffordshire’s communities.

The visit by Michael Heseltine, who is tasked by the Government to oversee economic recovery initiatives, is in recognition that we’ve made progress in Staffordshire against the national trend.

So, as I say, we’re not exactly flying but Jaguar Land Rover, Amazon, Associated Parcels and countless others relocating to the county appears to be a trend which is set to gain pace.

Good for jobs and people’s pockets, and good for Staffordshire.

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