{"id":11563,"date":"2015-11-25T17:16:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=11563"},"modified":"2015-11-25T17:16:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:16:24","slug":"city-deals-update-liverpool-and-west-midlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11563","title":{"rendered":"City Deals Update- Liverpool and West Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Liverpool City Region and The West Midlands have become the latest areas to form devolved regions.<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>Liverpool City Deal- DCLG writes:<br \/>\n<\/u>Liverpool has become the latest city region to sign up to George Osborne\u2019s devolution revolution, with local authority leaders set to sign a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/liverpool-devolution-deal\">historic new deal<\/a> today (17 November).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/liverpool-devolution-deal\">agreement<\/a> is another massive boost to the Northern Powerhouse with Liverpool City Region becoming the fifth major northern city region to sign up to a deal which will give its local leaders sweeping new powers. This follows recent deals signed with local leaders in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/devolution-to-the-greater-manchester-combined-authority-and-transition-to-a-directly-elected-mayor\">Greater Manchester<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/chancellor-hails-historic-deal-for-sheffield\">Sheffield City Region<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/north-east-joins-the-unstoppable-momentum-of-northern-powerhouse\">North East<\/a> and Tees Valley. A deal is also set to be signed today with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/west-midlands-devolution-deal\">West Midlands<\/a> \u2013 the first region outside of the Northern Powerhouse to do so.<\/p>\n<p>View the West Midlands <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/historic-devolution-deal-to-power-the-midlands-engine\" target=\"_blank\">Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK Gov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/liverpool-devolution-deal-boosts-the-northern-powerhouse\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool City Region and The West Midlands have become the latest areas to form devolved regions. Liverpool City Deal- DCLG writes: Liverpool has become the latest city region to sign up to George Osborne\u2019s devolution revolution, with local authority leaders &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11564,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563\/revisions\/11564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}