Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2017 to Question 118970, on Non-domestic Rates: Liverpool City Region, when he plans to have concluded his considerations of the most effective way to deliver those powers to the Liverpool City Region Mayor.

The Government is committed to ensuring that the Mayor of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has the appropriate powers to help promote local growth, and we are considering the most effective way to deliver those powers. The Department will confirm its proposed approach and timescales to the Mayor as soon as possible.