Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many meetings Ministers from his Department have had in 2020 with the directly elected Mayors or their deputies of (a) Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, (b) Greater Manchester, (c) Liverpool City Region,?(d) London, (e) North of Tyne, (f) Sheffield City Region, (g) Tees Valley, (h) West Midlands and (i) West of England.
MHCLG Ministers have had regular discussions with the directly elected regional Mayors in 2020, both bilaterally and through fora such as the M9 Group of Mayors, the London Transition Board and the Economic Recovery Working Group. Most recently, the Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government met the M9 Group of Mayors and the Leader of West Yorkshire Combined Authority on 22 September, along with the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury.
Details of Ministerial Meetings are published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mhclg-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-january-to-march-2020.