The government has said the new Local Enterprise Partnerships, which will also be tasked with promoting economic development, will involve local leaders. The LEPs will replace the Regional Development Agencies, which were a casualty of the government's budget cuts. The new organisations will need to punch their weight to match their predecessors' records. An Association of Greater Manchester Authorities report said that their RDA on average had a rate of return of more than five times the original investment in the region.