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Stephen C Profile picture
@blowhound
May 10 • 13 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
A guide to the UK's #freeports and #investmentzones.

This is a work in progress and will be updated/rewritten when new information becomes available.

This links the official government information and may be slightly outdated (the maps, in particular).
What are #freeports?

gov.uk/guidance/freep…
Where are the UK #freeports?

England:

Teesside (Middlesbrough,
Stockton on Tees)

Solent (Hampshire, IOW)

Plymouth and South Devon

East Midlands (East Midlands Airport)

Freeport East (Felixstowe and Harwich)
England (cont'd)

Humber (Hull, Goole, Immingham and Grimsby)

Liverpool City Region (Wirral Waters, Widnes, St Helens)

Thames (London Gateway and Tilbury)
Scotland:

Firth of Forth Green Freeport (Edinburgh Airport, Leith,
Grangemouth, Rosyth and Burntisland)

Inverness and Cromarty Green Freeport (Cromarty Firth, Invergordon, Nigg, and Inverness)
Wales:

Anglesey (Holyhead)

Celtic (Port Talbot and Milford Haven)

Maps below: 👇
gov.uk/government/pub…
What are #investmentzones?

gov.uk/government/pub…
Where are the UK #investmentzones?

Greater Manchester MCA
Proposed North East MCA
South Yorkshire MCA
West Midlands MCA
Liverpool City Region MCA
West Yorkshire MCA
Tees Valley MCA
Proposed East Midlands MCCA
Key:

MCA = Mayoral Combined Authority

MCCA = Mayoral Combined County Authority

Combined authorities are corporate bodies formed of two or more local government areas, established with or without an elected mayor.
The government also has plans for two #investmentzones in Scotland and two in Wales but locations for both are currently unconfirmed.
Other useful resources:

instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explai…
ifs.org.uk/publications/f…

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May 9
1/3 Energy giants BP and Equinor agreed to press ahead with plans for £1.5bn development in #Teesside #Freeport after demanding a guarantee they are not becoming involved in a project marred by corruption.

#Houchen #corruption

yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/…
2/3 "Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen, who is running the #Teesworks project, confirmed that a “bespoke clause” was inserted into their legal agreement, at the request of the two energy firms."
3/3 “BP and Equinor wanted assurances, given the noise they were hearing,” he (Houchen) told The Yorkshire Post. “We were able to provide those assurances and they signed the deal last week. Now they’re investing north of £1.5bn on this site. If anything, it exonerates us.”
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Apr 22
1/ Mr Hunt added: “(#Teesside) is best example in the country of how if you have people who care about how businesses flourish you can really transform an area that has in the past been left behind.”
2/
 northeastbylines.co.uk/teesworks-obli…
3/
 "Hunt also announces an extra £400m for “levelling up partnerships” in areas including Redcar and Cleveland and Rochdale."

theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m…
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Apr 21
1/ Do investment zones hold the key to unlocking the UK’s growth problem?

#InvestmentZones #Freeports

ukandeu.ac.uk/do-investment-…
2/ First, they were very underwhelming in terms of total job creation. The Treasury predicted that after five years they would have created 54,000 jobs. The actual figure was less than one third of this.
3/ Second, the majority of these jobs were in low skilled occupations. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing in itself. But they did not contribute to changing the make-up of a struggling economy – they brought in (a little) more of the same.
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Oct 21, 2022
1/ I hope that this thread will highlight, in a very basic way, just some of the connections and interests between the IEA, Atlas, Cato, ExxonMobil, Charles Koch, Philip Morris, Chase Foundation, etc and their influence on the UK government over the last decade.
2/ The Atlas Network

The Atlas Network was founded by Antony Fisher in 1981. It is a non-profit organisation “supporting” over 450 free market and antiregulation organisations worldwide.
3/ Fisher also founded London’s Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in 1995 after working with Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek at the Mont Pelerin Society (founded by Hayek and where Charles Koch was also a member), hence Atlas’s close connection with UK politics.
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