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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to promote the creation of metro mayors beyond the existing metro mayors.

The Government wants to see more devolution across the country, and we welcome locally backed proposals. Government is committed to completing the Sheffield City Region devolution deal and are in formal negotiations for a devolution deal for West Yorkshire. The English Devolution White Paper will provide further information on our plans for full devolution across England, increasing the number of mayors and doing more devolution deals.