Liverpool Combined Authority

In 2013, the government announced it wanted a 'combined authority' for Merseyside, which would be responsible for major regional economic investment projects, with a cabinet made up of the leaders of Liverpool, Sefton, Wirral, Knowsley, St Helens, Halton councils. Early in 2014 it was announced that rather than be called the Liverpool City Region combined authority - capitalising on the city as the region's economic and cultural attack brand - it would be the Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral Combined Authority.