YORKSHIRE & HUMBER REGION INFORMATION

Economy & Trade

• A GVA of over £89 billion representing over 7% of total UK’s output
• Has one of the highest business birth rates in the country
• Approximately 7,000 companies exporting with a value of £13.9 billion
• The region is home to over 300,000 businesses
• An area of over 15,400 square KM making up 12% of England total land mass

Labour Market

• The Yorkshire Humber region has a population of over 5.2 million people which is growing faster than the UK average
• A labour pool of over 2.39 million with the youngest workforce in the country
• The highest proportion of people employed in manufacturing in the UK
• A flexible workforce prepared to work long hours with over 20% working more than 45 hours per week
• Median weekly earnings 8% less than the UK average
• The region is home to over 3.2 million people of working age, a rate predicted to grow by 2.6% by 2020
• The regions 9 Universities educate nearly 200,000 students per year, 10% of England’s total
• The region produces 10% of England’s engineering and technology graduates
• A labour force with skills and experience in offshore from the Oil and Gas industries

Environmental Sector

• Over 19,000 environmental technology specialists already based in the region
• Yorkshire and Humber region generates over 18% of the UK’s electricity supply
• 1,267 unique companies active in the environmental technologies sector in Yorkshire and Humber
• The region has the second highest density of renewables generation by GVA in the UK

Logistics

• Excellent motorway links crossing the region means that essential supplies can be quickly transported from the UK’s centre of advanced engineering – Sheffield
• The regions road networks and infrastructure are less congestion than the South
• Expertise in the logistics industry with the capacity to transport large heavy components
• Established infrastructure to supply the National Grid and accessible connection points
• Yorkshire and Humber has some of the busiest rail freight corridors in the UK, especially the track on the South Bank of the Humber
• The region has two main inland container terminals Leeds and Doncaster with Doncaster handling 37000 deep sea containers per year and receiving an average of three trains per day