{"id":6922,"date":"2019-12-18T12:10:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T12:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:54:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T09:54:41","slug":"west-midlands-economic-monitor-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/west-midlands-economic-monitor-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands Economic Monitor: December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/12\/WMEM-Dec-19-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6931\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/12\/WMEM-Dec-19-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/12\/WMEM-Dec-19-1.png 1357w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/12\/WMEM-Dec-19-1-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/12\/WMEM-Dec-19-1-1024x599.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/12\/WMEM-Dec-19-1-768x449.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/12\/WMEM-Dec-19-1-250x146.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>December&#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>Headline West Midlands business activity\u2014accounting for services and manufacturing\u2014has fallen to 49.4, returning to contraction<\/li>\n<li>In 2018\/19 there were 31,740 apprenticeship starts across the WMCA area, which is an increase of 8.7% or 2,540 in absolute numbers from 2017\/18.<\/li>\n<li>The WMCA has the second-highest percentage of people who work satisfactory hours at 82.9% across all city regions, this is above the UK average of 80.3% in 2018.<\/li>\n<li>In 2018\/19 there were 1,960 additional affordable rented dwellings completed.<\/li>\n<li>In 2018 There were 170,475 active enterprises in the WMCA in 2018 an increase of 3.3% above the UK average growth of 0.5%<\/li>\n<li>Birmingham\u2019s largest residential tower has been approved for construction despite initial objections by Birmingham airport.<\/li>\n<li>The WMCA region total GVA increased from \u00a3101bn in 2017 to \u00a3105.1bn in 2018. This equates to a 4.0% increase which is above the UK average growth of 3.4%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/12\/WMEM-2019-12_compressed-1.pdf\">Download the latest edition of the monitor<\/a><\/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>December&#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: Headline West Midlands business activity\u2014accounting for services and manufacturing\u2014has fallen to 49.4, returning to contraction In 2018\/19 there were 31,740 apprenticeship starts across the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/west-midlands-economic-monitor-december-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;West Midlands Economic Monitor: December 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":6923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,8,6,13,19,267],"tags":[555,545,217,568,196,322,334],"class_list":["post-6922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-cities","category-economics","category-government","category-policy","category-regions","tag-affordable-housing","tag-apprenticeships","tag-economy","tag-headline-business-activity","tag-housing","tag-west-midlands-economic-monitor","tag-wmca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922","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=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6938,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions\/6938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}