Pages
News
Apprenticeships
Brexit
Budget
Culture
- Metro Mayor backs Liverpool City Region bid to host Gay Games in 2026
- Foundation launches to make Liverpool City Region the most LGBT+ friendly region in the UK
- Liverpool City Region Borough of Culture – Wirral – holds its first event.
- Winning design of new Borough of Culture logo unveiled
- The Liverpool City Region announces members of Music Board
- Wirral to be the city region’s Borough of Culture for 2019
- Mary Lamb
- Bev Ayre
- Combined Authority approves £20m for new cruise liner terminal
Devolution
- Steve Rotheram Announces Commission to Deliver New Station for Liverpool City Centre
- Liverpool high-speed rail link plans approved by Transport for the North
- Steve Rotheram vows to bring politics to the people
- Steve Rotheram launches £500m fund for the city region
- Mayors join forces to push for Crossrail for the North
- Steve Rotheram announces new £6 million fund to support our town centres
Devolution Stories
Digital
Energy
Environment
- Steve Rotheram’s open letter to environmental campaigners
- Liverpool City Region residents back new walking and cycling network plans
- Liverpool City Region Launches £6.4m Hydrogen Bus Project
- Bus travel and satisfaction levels are up across the Liverpool City Region
- Metro Mayor leads calls for action to improve air quality
- Next stage of bus and cycling network is given the go-ahead
- Liverpool City Region launches the Year of the Environment
- Work to start on 600km walking and cycling network
- The Liverpool City Region trials charge-on-the-go electric bus
- Combined Authority establishes an air quality task force
- The Liverpool City Region sets sights on becoming zero-carbon by 2040
General News
- Steve Rotheram backs Domestic Abuse Workplace scheme
- Funding announced for new lifts at five Liverpool City Region rail stations
- New home for Royal Daffodil
- Roll-out of new 24-7 £1 Mersey Tunnel toll begins
- Traffic light technology improving journeys for Liverpool City Region bus users.
- Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram Consults on Fair Employment Charter
- Business and rail leaders mark five years of rail advancement
- Metro Mayor hails improved facilities as Newton-le-Willows Interchange scheme officially opens
- Combined Authority responds to job losses at Jaguar Land Rover
- Steve Rotheram announces tender for new Mersey Ferry
- State-of-the-art trains are coming to the Liverpool City Region
- Statement regarding industrial action at Cammell Laird
- Steve Rotheram and Bus Alliance provide free bus tickets to foodbanks
- Combined Authority approves £24m funding for Parkside Link Road
- Steve Rotheram names award-winning architect as design champion
- Steve Rotheram urges employers to pay the Real Living Wage
- Huge public response to Metro Mayor’s big bus debate
- Steve Rotheram launches big bus debate for the city region
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority formally adopts official definition of antisemitism
- Steve Rotheram Announces “One Front Door” for the Liverpool City Region
- New report finds over 500,000 home owners in the North West are living in poor quality housing
- Young Liverpool City Region boxers fly to Louisville as part of Cultural Exchange
- Steve Rotheram and Luciana Berger back the Zero Suicide Alliance
- Joint statement from the Combined Authority, Merseyrail and the RMT
- Metro Mayor says 18,000 more construction workers are needed
- Northern Mayors demand fare freeze on Northern and TransPennine Express
- Steve Rotheram welcomes £4m Inspiring Science Fund investment in the city region
- £6m Combined Authority funding could create more than 500 jobs
- Steve Rotheram Urges Developers to Take Up Free Design Reviews
- Joint statement from Steve Rotheram and the RMT union
- Steve Rotheram launches campaign to close the UK skills gap
- Metro Mayor announces bus discount scheme for apprentices, saving £420 a year
- National Infrastructure Assessment “endorses Liverpool City Region priorities” — says Steve Rotheram
- Steve Rotheram responds to plans to leave train schedules unchanged
- Metro Mayor secures £50,000 compensation for Southport for rail disruption
- Combined Authority comes together in Armed Forces Week to support the armed forces community
- Steve Rotheram sets out transport red lines
- Steve Rotheram praises Bus Alliance ahead of Clean Air Day 2018
- Metro Mayors call for the RMT to postpone planned industrial action on intercity rail services
- City Region Leaders Join Calls For Government Action to Improve Air Quality
- Steve Rotheram announces latest stage in plans for new Mersey Ferry
- Regional mayors’ skills summit calls for further devolution
- Bus driver training drives up satisfaction levels
- Liverpool City Region welcomes Wales and Borders rail franchise announcement
- Steve Rotheram calls for answers about Northern Rail fiasco
- Combined Authority sharpens focus on inclusive growth, air quality, and further devolution
- Funding boost for Shakespeare North Playhouse and Prescot town centre
- Steve Rotheram presses Transport Secretary for support over bank holiday weekend
- Joint statement from Metro Mayors on Northern rail disruption
- Steve Rotheram warns of dangers of not addressing causes of Brexit
- Liverpool City Region and Greater Manchester Metro Mayors back devolution for Cheshire
- Liverpool City Region to receive £7m to help tackle homelessness
- Liverpool City Region Apprenticeship Awards 2018 Announced
- Liverpool City Region Skills Show 2018
- St Helens named as the first Borough of Culture in the Liverpool City Region
- Steve Rotheram urges rural businesses to apply for funding
- Liverpool City Region approves new Skills Strategy to drive inclusive growth
- Liverpool City Region introduces 1% for culture programme to support cultural activities
- Combined Authority adopts Culture and Creativity Strategy
- Liverpool City Region approves £25m funding to boost key route network
- Liverpool City Region leaders release new mission statement in fight against violence against women and girls
- Steve Rotheram meets the apprentices helping to keep Merseyrail trains on track
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Launches Plan to Increase Apprenticeships
- Steve Rotheram and UK Music launch Wish You Were Here report
- Liverpool City Region to host summit to improve mental health awareness
- Steve Rotheram and Andy Burnham call first Convention of the North
- Steve Rotheram launches £4.5m initiative to help households into work
- Steve Rotheram challenges house builders
- Influential report says Liverpool is top UK investment destination in the North West
- Steve Rotheram joins fellow regional mayors to call on government for further investment and devolution for their city regions.
- £3m boost for clean buses in the Liverpool City Region
- Metro Mayor pledges to make City Region the UK’s third most visited destination
- Steve Rotheram urges communities to help shape a shared cultural future
- Steve Rotheram calls on government to engage with the Liverpool City Region on education and skills devolution
- Steve Rotheram calls on government to provide impact statement on the effect of Brexit on the Liverpool City Region
- Note of the appointment of an external auditor
- Steve Rotheram says “no justification” for fracking plans in the Liverpool City Region
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority publishes budget proposals
- First Meeting of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Fairness and Social Justice Advisory Board
- Steve Rotheram calls on government to do more to make National Apprenticeship Levy work
- Steve Rotheram announces proposal for new Mersey Ferry
- Steve Rotheram meets Sajid Javid to discuss tackling homelessness
- Steve Rotheram announces plans for £1 off-peak fast tag for Mersey Tunnels
- Steve Rotheram pledges “no precept” for the Liverpool City Region this year.
- Shadow Chancellor backs plans for Mersey tidal project
- Steve Rotheram speaks at the launch of Transport for the North’s Strategic Transport Plan
- Digital Infrastructure Plan Announced for Liverpool City Region
- Steve Rotheram calls for urgent government response to Carillion crisis
- Steve Rotheram calls for government backing for the Mersey tidal energy scheme
- Steve Rotheram urges RMT union to enter talks to settle dispute
- Steve Rotheram holds the second Metro Mayor’s Question Time in Wirral
- Steve Rotheram calls for greater devolved powers to address failing schools crisis
- Liverpool City Region awards £12M funding for Paddington Village development
- How you can help to build the Liverpool City Region Skills Strategy
- Steve Rotheram tells Universities UK that hard-wired bias to South East will frustrate Industrial Strategy
- Steve Rotheram says Liverpool City Region could be an industrial powerhouse for UK, but devolution is the key
- Steve Rotheram offers his reaction to today’s budget announcements
- Liverpool City Region hosts the German British Forum conference: Digitalisation and The Future of Work
- Steve Rotheram shares vision for future and makes 10 big pledges
- Steve Rotheram holds the first Metro Mayor’s Question Time in St Helens
- Steve Rotheram demands the government end cover-up culture
- Steve Rotheram continues call for greater powers to avert Universal Credit misery
- Steve Rotheram joins fellow regional mayors in calls for more devolved powers
- Liverpool City Region can become magnet for global tech companies, Steve Rotheram tells Digital Summit
- First Virtual Reality Question Time to be hosted at the Metro Mayor’s Digital Summit
- Steve Rotheram calls for an urgent re-think on heartless and regressive Universal Credit
- Steve Rotheram to offer David Davis “a northern perspective” on Brexit today
- Join the Metro Mayor’s drive for fairness and social justice across Liverpool City Region
- Steve Rotheram says rail announcement is a “modest down payment on what’s really needed”
- Steve Rotheram joins fellow leaders in plans to give the North a stronger voice
- Transport for the North endorses Liverpool City Region’s case for High Speed connectivity
- Steve Rotheram visits Cammell Laird to see progress on the RRS Sir David Attenborough
- Steve Rotheram signs the Armed Forces Covenant
- Steve Rotheram visits the University of Liverpool for a tour of two flagship projects
- Steve Rotheram appoints Lynn Collins to chair the Fairness and Social Justice Advisory Board
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority awards £8.9 million to improve skills facilities
- Liverpool City Region is open for business during major upgrade to Lime Street station
- Steve Rotheram invites Prime Minister to make personal visit to New Ferry
- Steve Rotheram tells business leaders “Halton is key to Liverpool City Region’s economic future”
- Steve Rotheram says Skills Commission key to successful and dynamic economy
- Liverpool City Region secures £3.5m for innovative employment programme
- Work gets underway on ‘Halton Curve’ to boost rail links across Liverpool City Region, Cheshire and North Wales
- New road safety strategy for the Liverpool City Region given the green light
- Metro Mayor and Combined Authority unveil 100 day plan
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority website launched today.
- Liverpool City Region pledges £20,000 for New Ferry disaster relief fund
- Crossfield Construction win contract to build UK’s first £2.5m Digital Academy at the City of Liverpool College
- Steve Rotheram invites Lord O’Neill to review City Region’s Economic Strategy
- Steve Rotheram issues statement on fire safety following Grenfell Tower disaster
- Steve Rotheram tells property sector that the City Region must raise its ambition to compete and prosper
- Liverpool City Region marks National Clean Air Day with electric charge points pledge
- Steve Rotheram offers support for third runway at Heathrow
- Steve Rotheram calls on businesses to help shape future skills agenda
- Steve Rotheram commits to Mersey Barrage
- Steve Rotheram reveals new team and new purpose for Combined Authority
- Metro Mayors call for party leaders to support for transformational rail investment
- Liverpool City Region bus users benefit from an improved ticket offer
- 43 projects shortlisted for SIF funding
- £72m cash boost for the Liverpool City Region to help create local jobs and growth
- UK’s first digital academy to open in the Liverpool City Region
- Liverpool City Region establishes Health and Life Sciences Board
- The Liverpool City Region publish Area Based Review
- Liverpool City Region leaders give green light to new Merseyrail trains by 2020
- Liverpool City Region calls on government to push through the Buses Bill
- Devolution deal brings multi-million pound boost to Liverpool City Region
- Green light for travel plans in the Liverpool City Region
Halton
Homelessness
Housing
Inclusive growth
Knowsley
Liverpool
Sefton
Skills
Spatial Planning
St Helens
Transport
Wirral
