4,000 jobs created in Local Enterprise Office supported companies

More than 4,000 extra jobs have been created by Local Enterprise Office supported companies in the past 12 months.

The Jobs Minister Richard Bruton has published the annual results for LEOs for 2014.

In total, over 7,300 new jobs were created - taking into account losses, there was a net increase of 4,012.

Over 31,000 people are employed by LEO client companies.