Greater Brighton Economic Dashboard

In 2023 the Greater Brighton Economic Board agreed to the development of an economic dashboard. The cost-of-living crisis posed a challenge to the prosperity of the Greater Brighton economy. Due to this the Board agreed that having some sort of tool that tracks and monitors the economic outlook for the city region would be helpful. Creation of such a dashboard would allow the Board to track the performance of the local economy, using the information to make informed and timely decisions around the kind of interventions to be made to support residents and businesses. The economic dashboard would bring together a basket of economic indicators that can be monitored and tracked over time. The outlook these indicators describe could then be reported to Board members quarterly.

Coast to Capital submitted a proposal to supply the economic dashboard. Our offer centred around our familiarity with the Greater Brighton economy as a long-time partner and member of the Board, as well as our expertise in producing economic analysis of this type. We have produced regular updates to the economic dashboard as it has become a part of the Board’s economic planning and analysis tools. It includes indicators such as gross value added (GVA), enterprise counts, unemployment, employment by industry, location quotient analysis and claimant rates.