Studio boss challenges government to curb Lancashire skills drain

Paul Kendrick, the managing director of Accrington firm Studio, has written to all Lancashire MPs asking them to help reverse Lancashire's 'commuter outflow'.

The letter follows a study conducted by the Lancashire Institute for Economic and Business Research at University of Central Lancashire which found that the 800,000 commuters who work outside of the region could be taking some £4.3bn out of the economy each year.

Lancashire residents seeking jobs in Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Yorkshire and other parts of the North of England, due to a lack of high-skilled jobs at home, could be costing the Lancashire economy as much as  £7bn each year.