Local Authorities
Bournemouth BC (http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/)
Poole BC (http://www.poole.gov.uk/)
Dorset CC (http://www.dorsetforyou.com/)
Christchurch BC (http://www.dorsetforyou.com/)
East Dorset DC (http://www.dorsetforyou.com/)
West Dorset DC (http://www.dorsetforyou.com/)
Purbeck DC (http://www.purbeck.gov.uk/)
Weymouth and Portland BC (http://www.weymouth.gov.uk/)
North Dorset District Council (http://www.north-dorset.gov.uk/)

Main priorities
Skills, transport and sustainable growth.

Targets
To increase GVA per employee, and to increase the proportion of the population with university level skills.

Leader of Poole Council, Brian Leverett said:

“Local political leaders, together with our Local Strategic Partnerships and businesses believe that the area’s economy is under-performing. We are determined that local authority boundaries will not get in the way of making economic progress and see the Multi Area Agreement as an important way of cementing a new partnership between the public and private sectors. The work will concentrate mainly on the urban area but will also include important linkages to the surrounding market towns”