Lord Storey – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Storey on 2014-04-02.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the recent comments by the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, regarding who should lead the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, what consideration they have given to the consequences should the leader of one constituent authority decide to withdraw from the combined authority.

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

This Government has helped these councils set up a combined authority, something that all the local leaders asked for. I understand that they are now working together to make it work.

As I explained during the recent debates in Grand Committee on the draft Orders providing for the establishment of the combined authorities, if in the future councils decide that changes to a combined authority are in the area’s best interest – perhaps another council joining, or one leaving – and the statutory conditions have been met, the Government would seek Parliamentary approval to a new draft Order providing for the changes to take place.

The Order allows for any local authority to change their representative member on the Combined Authority.