After a week when our most important formal governance meeting took centre stage, I am looking forward to meeting more businesses during Humber Business Week.
I’ll be listening to local business people from our varied SMEs through to multi-nationals, and the important bodies helping support and represent them.
It’s very timely, not least because last Wednesday our main HEYCA Board signed off plans to take on more than £36 million of funding for transport, training and skills over the next couple of years. It’s money that we can now control here to invest in what local businesses and people need, not what Whitehall decides.
So, I will be listening to the transport challenges affecting businesses and their staff, and to get views on the skills we need to build our workforce now and in the future.
We’ve already shown when we work together - taking positive decisions for the future as we did on Wednesday - we can make change happen. Now I want to create many more partnerships in line with my pledge to take decisions with people, not for people. I hope to meet many local businesses, particularly throughout the Business Day on Friday.