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EEDA's year in review - highlights 2007/08

EEDA's year in numbers

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The East of England Development Agency (EEDA) is the driving force behind sustainable economic regeneration in the East of England - Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. The vision for the East of England is to create a leading economy, founded on a world class knowledge base, creativity and enterprise.


  EEDA's key achievements, 2007/08:
  • 4,927 jobs created or safeguarded
  • 41,274 people with improved skills
  • 1,480 businesses helped to start and grow
  • 34,918 businesses performance improvements
  • 52 hectares of brownfield land reclaimed
  • £134 million leveraged in public and private regeneration investment
  EEDA's key achievements, from inception in 1999 to March 2008:
  • 31,994 jobs created or safeguarded
  • 143,513 people with improved skills
  • 8,231 businesses helped to start and grow
  • 61,092 businesses performance improvements
  • 251 hectares of brownfield land reclaimed
  • £679 million leveraged in public and private investment
  • two new universities
  EEDA's financial performance:
  • £132 million spent on programme activities
  • full utilisation of cash resources available from Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR)
  • all outputs either reached or exceeded target range
  • over £3 million of cashable savings achieved
  • overall efficiency targets exceeded
  • £134 million levered in public and private infrastructure investment




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