Humber business groups call for elected mayor

THREE influential business organisations have called for an elected mayor for the Humber region.
The Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce, the Institute of Directors and the Federation of Small Businesses have written a joint letter to the Chancellor 
George Osborne and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Greg Clark to enter into discussions with the local business community to create a “Elected Metro” Mayor for the Humber region as the best way of devolving powers away from Westminster.
Dr Ian Kelly, Chief Executive of the Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce, said: “If devolution is coming what the business community wants is a strong, bright, strategic thinking local Mayor for the Humber, not weak local leadership which hands over our destiny to people in Leeds, Lincoln, or elsewhere”. 
The Energy Estuary has helped to attract massive inward investment in the last few years and the organisations say it has “generated a new optimism 
which has been spreading throughout the Humber business community as more strategic thinking about the area’s economic development has steadily emerged”.
The three business organisations believe a Humber region led by a forward thinking, democratically elected Metro Mayor who has real powers is the best way forward for the area.
The letter to the two senior Government Ministers was signed by the President of the Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce Steve Eastwood, the Chair 
of the IOD Humber, Pat Coyle, and the Chairman of the FSB, Mike Bisby.

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