Regional Stakeholders Workshops Sessions and Interviews Transcripts comprising the following workshops: (1) Brexit Devolved Administrations in Edinburgh, 4 May 2018; (2) Brexit and Advanced Manufacturing Industries in Birmingham, 11 May 2018; (3) Brexit and Service Industries in London, 18th May 2018 and (4) Brexit and Devolution, Leeds, 21st May 2018. All the interviews were taken after the workshops. We asked specific questions to some speakers (see the list of speakers below) depending on the theme of the workshop. The interviews contain the views of academics, members of regional governments, members of parliament as well as other practitioners from private sector. Symposia speakers: Brexit Devolved Administrations symposium (4th May 2018, Edinburgh): Professor Raquel Ortega Argiles, City-REDI – University of Birmingham; Professor Anand Menon, The UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE); Simon Fuller, Deputy Director – Economic Analysis, Scottish Government; Professor Philip McCann, University of Sheffield; Professor Kim Swales, Strathclyde University; Jonathan Price, Chief Economist, Welsh Government; Shane Murphy, Chief Economist, Northern Ireland Government; Professor David Bell, Stirling University; Professor Frank van Oort, Erasmus University of Rotterdam; Dr. Andrew Moxey, Pareto Consulting; Professor Aileen Stockdale, Queen’s University of Belfast; Dr. Crispian Fuller, Cardiff University; Dr. Chloe Billing, City-REDI - University of Birmingham; Dr. Katy Hayward, Queen’s University of Belfast; Mairi Angela Gougeon, Member of Scottish Parliament and Committee of the Regions; Dr. Joanne Hunt, Cardiff University; Des McNulty, Policy Scotland. Brexit West Midlands Participatory symposium (11th May 2018, Birmingham): Professor Raquel Ortega Argiles, City-REDI – University of Birmingham; Professor Daniel Wincott, The UK in a Changing Europe; Lloyd Broad, Birmingham City Council; Professor Philip McCann, University of Sheffield;Charlie Hopkirk, Black Country Consortium; Nicola Hewitt, Commercial Director, West Midlands Growth Company; David Hearne, Birmingham City University – Centre for Brexit Studies; Professor Frank van Oort, Erasmus University of Rotterdam; Professor David Bailey, Aston University; Justin Benson, KPMG Automotive; Professor Nigel Driffield, Warwick University; Professor Simon Collinson, The University of Birmingham; Professor Paul Forrest, West Midlands Economic Forum. Brexit: London and Service Sectors symposium (18th May 2018, London): Professor Raquel Ortega Argiles, City-REDI – University of Birmingham; Professor Dan Wincott, Cardiff University and The UK in a Changing Europe; Professor Jonathan Portes, King’s College London and The UK in a Changing Europe; Professor Philip McCann, University of Sheffield; Dr. Ben Gardiner, Cambridge Econometrics; Andrew Carter, Center for Cities; Anjalika Bardalai, The City UK; Dr. Mark Thissen, Senior Researcher Economics (PBL); Yong Jing Teow, Confederation of British Industries; Dr. Ingo Borchert, University of Sussex UK Trade Policy Observatory; Richard Chaplin, Managing Partners Forum; Antony Raine, Deloitte; Professor Tony Travers, LSE; Dr. Simon Marginson, University College London and UKICE; Professor Jonathan Portes, King’s College London and UKICE. Brexit North Summit (21st May 2018, Leeds): Cllr Judith Blake, Leader of Leeds City Council; Tom Riordan, Chief Executive of Leeds City Council; Professor Anand Menon, Director of UK in a Changing Europe; Professor Raquel Ortega-Argiles City-REDI – The University of Birmingham; Dr. Sarah Longlands, Director of IPPR North; Mayor Steve Rotheram, Liverpool City Region; Professor Philip McCann, University of Sheffield; Professor Frank van Oort, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Professor Andy Pike, CURDS Newcastle University; Alison McGovern, Labour MP for Wirral South; Richard Corbett, Labour MEP for Yorkshire and Humber; Luke Raikes, IPPR North.The Economic Impacts of Brexit on the UK, its Sectors, its Cities and its Regions What are the economic impacts of Brexit on the UK's sectors, regions and cities? The findings from our recent research suggest that the UK's cities and regions which voted for Brexit are also the most economically dependent on EU markets for their prosperity and viability. This is a result of their differing sectoral and trade composition. Different impacts are likely for different sectors, and also different impacts are likely between sectors, and these relationships also differ across the country's regions. Some sectors, some regions and some cities will be more sensitive and susceptible to any changes in UK-EU trade relations which may arise from Brexit than others and their long-run competiveness positions will be less robust and more vulnerable than others. This suggests that these sectoral and regional differences need to be very carefully taken into account in the context of the national UK-EU negotiations in order for the post-Brexit agreements to be politically, socially as well as economically sustainable across the country. This project aims to examine in detail the likely impacts of Brexit on the UK's sectors, regions and cities by using the most detailed regional-national-international trade and competition datasets currently available anywhere in the world (and the people who built these data). These two datasets, are the 2016 WIOD World Input-Output Database and the 2016 UK Interregional Trade Datasets developed respectively by the University of Groningen and by the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. WIOD covers 43 countries, 56 sectors and 15 years of trade-GDP-demand relationships, while the EU Interregional Tables covers 59 sectors and 240 EU regions. The quantitative research will allow us to understand the role in shaping UK regional trade behaviour which is played by global value-chains, whereby goods and services crisscross borders multiple times before being finally consumed by household and firms. The UK is heavily integrated with the rest of the EU via such global value-chains and reshaping the future post-Brexit UK trade arrangements with the EU will also involve reconfiguring these global value-chains. Our data allows us to examine the impacts of different trade scenarios and to map out the sensitivity of UK sectors and regions to different post-Brexit scenarios. Brexit will also reshape the national and international competiveness rankings of the UK regions and again our data allows us to examine the likely long run changes which will arise. At the same time, these changes will also all have profound implications for the design and governance of UK city and regional development policy logic and settings. However, the withdrawal of EU Cohesion Funds, alongside changing UK-EU trade relationships means that both the economic and the public policy environment facing local regions will shift significantly. The ongoing UK devolution agenda at the level of both the three devolved national administrations as well as the English city-regions will be heavily affected by the changing external environment and our project will identify the governance, policy and institutional options which key stakeholders perceive to offer the greatest possibilities for adjusting to the new realities. Our quantitative research will therefore also be undertaken in parallel with qualitative research based on key stakeholder engagement sessions. Participatory workshops with city, regional and national stakeholders will be organised in order to develop alternative post-Brexit scenarios for empirical analysis as perceived by the city and regional as well as national institutions. The mix of quantitative and qualitative approaches will allow us to identity the impacts of Brexit at the crucial meso-levels of the individual sectors, the individual cities and the individual regions.

The data was collected by recording the videos of workshop sessions and a series of interviews after the workshops