What is the North East Evidence Hub? 

The North East Evidence Hub brings together up-to-date, robust and insightful data and intelligence about the North East regional economy onto a single digital platform. 

It's about our region, for the region. 

Who developed the platform? 

The North East Local Enterprise Partnership.  

The North East LEP has responsibility in the North East for providing and enhancing the region’s economic evidence base and to make that evidence available to the wider region in an accessible way. The North East LEP has wider involvement from partners in relation to evidence development and this platform developed with support from a number of partners, including Transport North East who have responsibility for updating the transport data sections.

Evidence is at the heart of everything we do – it informs decision making, investment decisions, strategy development and delivery of programmes and interventions. Through this platform, we want our stakeholders to have confidence in using, exploring and understanding data and evidence to inform all of these activities.

Making data and research more accessible is also fundamental to the purpose of the platform.  We’re doing this by progressively collating and analysing key regional data in one place and we’ve created an online environment where publications can be easily accessed, as we know research and reports can often be difficult to track down.  

Who is the North East Evidence Hub for? 

The platform has been built to be accessible and as user-friendly as possible, and therefore anyone can access the information on this site. The Hub is one-stop-shop for residents, businesses, education establishments, researchers, advisors and policy and decision makers. We continue to build the breadth and depth of data and evidence relating to the economic growth of our region.