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* 1. Company name

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* 2. Your name

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* 3. Email Address

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* 4. The Belfast Agenda sets out the following stretched goals:
  • Create 15,000 new jobs
  • Attract £1 billion of private sector Foreign Direct Investment
  • Support 4,000 small business start-ups
  • Double the economic value of out-of-state tourism
  • Welcome 1.5 million overnight tourist stays per year
To what extent do you agree or disagree that the stretch goals set out for 'Growing the Economy' over the next four years are right for Belfast?

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* 5. The Belfast Agenda sets out the following commitments in relation to the economy:
  • Create employment and opportunity
  • Attract investment into Belfast
  • Foster business growth in Belfast
  • Strengthen business relationships and make it easy to do business
  • Maximise the impact of the city region
  • Increase tourism spend
  • Reduce economic inequalities


To what extent do you agree or disagree that the commitments set out under this priority, as areas for city partners to focus on over the next 4 years, are right for Belfast?

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* 6. The Strategy notes that together we will:
  • Address educational inequalities and increase skills attainment
  • Address barriers to employment at structural and personal level
  • Enhance and increase the skill levels of our residents and attract and retain even more skilled people
  • Match people and skills to opportunities across Belfast
  • Reduce poverty and economic inactivity
To what extent do you agree or disagree that the commitments set out under this priority, as areas for city partners to focus on over the next four years, are right for Belfast?

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* 7. The Belfast Agenda sets out the following stretched goals in relation to working and learning.
  • Reduce the gap between Belfast's economic inactivity rate and the Belfast average.
  • Reduce the proportion of the working age population with no qualifications to fewer than 14 per cent
  • Increase the proportion of the working age population with Level 2 qualifications and above to more than 82 per cent
  • Increase the percentage of school leavers entering employment, education or training to 98%
  • Reduce the gap between percentage of school leavers and the percentage of Free School Meal Entitled school leavers achieving at Level 2 or above, including English and maths, from 33% to less than 30%.
To what extent do you agree or disagree that the stretch goals set out for 'Working and Learning' over the next four years are right for Belfast?

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* 8. Have you any other comments relating to any aspects of the Belfast Agenda?

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