{"id":6596,"date":"2019-10-24T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/?p=6596"},"modified":"2023-02-16T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T10:49:00","slug":"west-midlands-economic-monitor-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/west-midlands-economic-monitor-october-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands Economic Monitor: October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/10\/WMEM-Oct-19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6598\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/10\/WMEM-Oct-19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"524\" \/><\/a>October&#8217;s edition of the West Midlands Economic Monitor is now available for you to keep up to date with recent developments in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The headlines for this month&#8217;s monitor are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The WMCA have signed a contract to order 21 new battery-operated trams to operate on the new Edgbaston line making the region. They will be the first battery-operated trams in the country.<\/li>\n<li>Crime has increased in the region by 10% compared to the year ending June 2018, while nationally there has been a 6% increase.<\/li>\n<li>Jaguar Land Rover has announced plans to close its plants in Halewood, Castle Bromwich and Solihull for up to eight days in November, ahead of UK withdrawal from the EU.<\/li>\n<li>Only two in five businesses in the region have reported having undertaken a Brexit risk assessment to ascertain the impacts of leaving the EU with a withdrawal agreement.<\/li>\n<li>New survey data shows that 58.3% of adults in the WMCA area are physically active, increasing by 1% since May 2017\/18. This lags behind the overall national figure of 63.2% of adults being physically active.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Get the latest edition of the monitor by <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/10\/WMEM-2019-10-c.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>The West Midlands Economic Monitor was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benabrittain?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Brittain<\/a>, Policy and Data Analyst, City-REDI,\u00a0 University of Birmingham.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Disclaimer:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\nThe opinions presented here belong to the author rather than the University of Birmingham.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To sign up for our blog mailing list, please\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cityredi@contacts.bham.ac.uk?Subject=City-REDI%20Blog%20Mailing%20List\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October&#8217;s edition of the West Midlands Economic Monitor is now available for you to keep up to date with recent developments in the region. The headlines for this month&#8217;s monitor are: The WMCA have signed a contract to order 21 new battery-operated trams to operate on the new Edgbaston line making the region. They will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/west-midlands-economic-monitor-october-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;West Midlands Economic Monitor: October 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":6598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714],"tags":[517,37,518,519,520,334],"class_list":["post-6596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-west-midlands-weekly-economic-impact-monitor","tag-battery-operated-trams","tag-brexit","tag-crime","tag-jaguar-land-rover","tag-physical-activity","tag-wmca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6605,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions\/6605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}