West Midlands Combined Authority Plan

for Growth, Overview

The West Midlands Plan for Growth was launched in July 2022 and has a clear mandate to lead a partnership-driven economic growth agenda.

The plan pinpoints economic clusters where the region can ignite above-forecast levels of growth. These are clusters where the West Midlands has comparative advantage and businesses are confident to invest. Clusters include: logistics and distribution; healthtech and medtech; creative content production and gaming; professional and financial services and supply chain; manufacturing of future housing; modern and low carbon utilities; manufacturing of electric light vehicles and associated battery storage devices; aerospace.

Interventions will seek to streamline and synthesise existing supply and demand levers, responding to known market conditions to optimise and deepen supply chains, skills and scale to embed sustainable growth drivers across the region.

Jamie Elliott, Delivery Manager at the WMCA, said: “Our Plan for Growth aims to increase opportunities and jobs throughout the region by driving forward economic growth and creating the right conditions for investment and prosperity.

“This is an exciting time to be living and working in the West Midlands and the Made Smarter Programme forms part of the foundations which will continue to attract inward investors and skilled jobs in the wide variety of sectors for which we are renowned.”

Visit: www.wmca.org.uk to find out more