Comments on: North West Development Agency celebrates 10 years

By: Local Enterprise Partnership takes shape – and it’s all power to the private sector — MULE

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:35:51 +0000

[...] successfully bid for late in 2010, will partially fill the vacuum left by the dissolution of the Northwest Development Agency (NWDA). The NWDA was one of nine Regional Development Authorities (RDAs) established by the Labour [...]

By: Manchester to be governed by nation’s first ‘Super Council’ — MULE

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:54:39 +0000

[...] move follows the Conservative government’s decision to shut down the North West Development Agency. Its closest replacement is a new ‘Local Enterprise Partnership’ won by Greater [...]

By: Sian

Sian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:21:42 +0000

There is an accidental ‘those’ in that last sentence, sorry.

By: Sian

Sian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:20:25 +0000

Good article Andy. I was literally just about to send you a copy of the 315 article, where Hough says on the question of his impartiality in the NWDA Chairman role: “There are rules and processes to govern any situation where I may have a conflict, just as there are for any other member of the board. It’s nothing new for a member or chairman of a board to have other interests.” Yes Robert, quite. The problem is that those by ‘other interests’ you mean ‘other pies in which I have my greedy, thieving fingers’

By: New appointments at the NWDA — MULE

New appointments at the NWDA — MULE — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:04:13 +0000

[...] Goldie used to be a director of both the Carphone Warehouse Group and CEO of Northwest-based company Martin Dawes Telecommunications. He was a director of the Cheshire Building Society (of which current NWDA chairman Robert Hough used to be chairman). [...]