The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority met today (Friday, 20 March), for its usual monthly meeting and took a range of policy and funding decisions, including:

• Approving the city region’s Local Industrial Strategy
• Approving grant funding allocations for the Adult Education Budget
• Hearing a performance update on the Households into Work programme
• Hearing an update on the Strategic Investment Fund
• Approving funding support for a Music Industry Sector Development Pilot
• Approving funding support for the remediation of the Festival Gardens site
• Approving funding support for the Vynova chemical plant in Runcorn
• Approving funding support for the Runcorn Station Quarter project