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East Anglia Productivity Forum

This area covers Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, and is home to 2.5 million. East Anglia is ranked 17th of the 41 NUTS2 regions that make up the United Kingdom and in productivity terms sits between the regions of Essex and the West Midlands. Within the area, there are places and people that are doing well and experiencing high living standards. Elsewhere there are places where people struggle. And even within those places seen to be achieving, there are large disparities. Our emerging research agenda focuses on some themes that are specific to the area – such as the national importance of Greater Cambridge, the opportunities provided by the Fens, and the role of the coast in providing clean energy for the UK – as well as engaging with the wider themes of The Productivity Institute.
A scattergraph of the East Anglia area showing comparisons with the UK average

East Anglia’s Productivity Challenge: Exploring the issues

Find out more about the historic context, key issues and future research priorities of productivity in East Anglia in our insights paper, which sits alongside an executive summary: a high-level overview highlighting its productivity picture, including a scattergraph showing the disparities on a NUTS3 level in comparison with the UK average, the primary drivers and bottlenecks, a SWOT analysis and a look to the future.

Insights Paper
Executive Summary

Productivity scorecard for the East of EnglandProductivity Scorecards

The Institute’s Productivity Lab has developed a scorecard series, based on ITL1 level, to compare productivity performance across UK regions and devolved nations. It comprises five main regional productivity drivers, captured using 17 indicators.

Download the East of England scorecard

 

 

Key Contacts

Katy Davies

Chair
Shift Momentum

Owen Garling

East Anglia Forum Lead
University of Cambridge

Committee

Andrew Harston

Associated British Ports

Belinda Clarke

Agitech-E

C-J Green

New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership

Claire Ruskin

Cambridge Network

Dan Thorp

Cambridge Ahead

David Richardson

University of East Anglia

Fiona McDiarmid

Norfolk County Council

Jo Lancaster

Huntingdonshire District Council

Johnathan Reynolds

Opergy

Rachel Stopard

Greater Cambridge Partnership

Tim Whitley

BT

Tom Hennessy

Opportunity Peterborough

Tony Jones

One Nucleus

Andy Williams

MedImmune/AstraZeneca

Dr. Tina Barsby

National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB)

Joanne Lancaster

Huntingdonshire District Council

Laraine Moody

West Suffolk College

Mark Searcey

University of East Anglia

Alexander Cisinksi-O'Donnell

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

Lynne Miles

Greater Cambridge Partnership

Elspeth Lees

Higher Education Eastern Colleges Group

Mary Elford

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Tim Robinson

Tech UK East of England

Howard Partridge

Innovate UK

Ross Renton

Anglia Ruskin University Peterborough

Adam Thorp

East of England Local Government Association

Rosanne Wijnberg

New Anglia

Lisa Perkins

Adastral Park

Insights

Comparing productivity performance across the UK using scorecard maps

Productivity Measurement Analysis series – insights from Q2, 2023

Does lower productivity outside London and the South East affect UK-wide performance?