Annex 3: Summary of Green Paper Consultation Questions
Foundations and Vision of Growth
1. Do you agree that youth, diversity, geography, scale, investment and innovation represent the foundations for economic growth in the West Midlands?
2. How does the WMCA’s vision for inclusive economic growth compare with our everyday experience and will it inspire change?
Business and investment
3. Do you agree with our identification of the West Midlands key cluster strengths and what needs to be done to support and develop them?
4. How can the West Midlands build on its innovation strengths and increase government investment in R&D?
5. What could be done to strengthen business leadership and management in the West Midlands and what support does business need to invest in success?
6. How do we sustain our growing reputation for foreign direct investment?
7. What needs to be done to create and support better quality jobs?
8. How do we better support the social economy to build its financial sustainability while continuing to deliver social impact?
People and skills
9. What more needs to be done to address our high levels of youth unemployment in the region?
10. How do we support more people into paid work?
11. Do you agree with the focus on Level 3 skills and how can we foster better engagement between businesses and skills providers?
Institutions and narrative
12. How should we improve the institutions and networks that support economic growth?
13. What makes the West Midlands economy special and how can we better speak with one voice in the region? Place
14. How can Place-Based Strategies drive local economic growth, including the transformation of our town centres and high streets?
15. Do you agree with our identification of those growth sites of regional significance and the ‘corridors of opportunity’?
16. Do you agree that our first priority in meeting the WMCA’s housing need should be to bring brownfield sites into use and to increase the density and diversity of our housing supply?
17. What might be the opportunities and challenges of development in the Green Belt or Grey Belt?
18. How could arrangements with neighbouring local authorities be strengthened in order to meet housing shortfalls within the WMCA metropolitan area?
Public services and net zero
19. Do you agree with the principles and priorities for public service innovation in the West Midlands?
20. Do you agree our proposed approach to developing the second West Midlands Net Zero Five Year Plan?