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Dear James
 
Thank you for your recent correspondence, which has been received by the
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Merseytravel. Please use the
reference number 2520644 in any future correspondence on this matter.
 
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Dear James

Thank you for your recent request made under the Freedom of Information
Act.

The Combined Authority does not maintain a cumulative figure for how
funding and services have been allocated to each local authority areas,
nor is there any requirement for us to do so. To collate this information
from the Combined Authority’s foundation in 2014 would involve a detailed
analysis of the work of all our departments, including:

• Culture
• Digital
• Energy & Environment
• Homelessness
• Households Into Work
• Housing & Spatial Planning
• Skills & Apprenticeships
• Transport

Officers have considered your enquiry, and, due to the way that the
information is recorded, they have determined that responding to your
questions in full would exceed the appropriate cost limit.

As defined by Section 12 of the Act, the cost limit for responding to a
request under the Act for a local government body is set at £450, which is
calculated at a rate of £25 per hour (totalling the equivalent of 18
hours’ work). When considering the cost of responding, we are able to take
into account the time spent

a) determining whether the information is held;

b) locating the information;

c) retrieving the original record, and

d) extracting the requested data from the original record.

Should the cost exceed this appropriate limit, the authority has no
obligation to fulfil the request. Officers have determined that the work
required by your enquiry would greatly exceed the 18 hours of work
permitted to respond to a request under Section 12 of the Freedom of
Information Act.

In accordance with Section 16 of the Act, and to provide you with relevant
advice and assistance, we can advise that our Programme Management Office
(PMO) is responsible for distributing and monitoring specific funding
streams, and a breakdown of their work is readily available. While this
does not show the entirety of the work carried out by the Combined
Authority across the local authority areas, it may be a useful indication
of the general picture.

The PMO currently monitors and reports on the following funding streams as
shown in Table A:

Fund Name Award Amount Value
Local Growth Fund £ 312,560,000
Gainshare £ 300,000,000
Transforming Cities Fund £ 172,500,000
Getting Building Fund £ 26,000,000
Brownfield Land Remediation Fund £ 46,345,952
Growing Places Fund £ 19,870,000
Urban Development Fund £ 25,000,000
City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement £ 710,000,000

Table A: Funding Streams monitored by the PMO (Source PMO tracker system)

These funding streams are made available for any qualifying organisation
across the Liverpool City Region to apply for.

Local Growth Fund, Getting Building Funds and Transforming Cities Funds
are all fully allocated to projects in delivery across the Liverpool City
Region.

Gainshare, Brownfield Land Fund, Growing Places Fund, Urban Development
Fund and City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements have a number of
projects still within the pipeline, awaiting the consideration of the
Combined Authority for awards.

The Combined Authority also supports local authorities in the City Region
with their applications to central government for other funding streams.
In the last twelve months, with Combined Authority support, the following
local authorities have been successful in obtaining funding from the below
government funds:

• Levelling Up Fund (Transport – funding channelled through CA):

◦ Wirral MBC (£24m)
◦ Liverpool City Council (£15m)
◦ Sefton MBC (£2.5m)

• Levelling Up Fund (Non-Transport – funding direct to LAs, with CA
assistance)

◦ Liverpool City Council (£20m)
◦ Wirral MBC (£19.6m)

• Town Deal Fund:

◦ Sefton MBC (£37.5m)
◦ Wirral MBC (£25m)
◦ St Helens (£25m)
◦ Halton (£23.6m).

• Future High Streets Fund: Wirral MBC (£24.6m)

All expenditure over £150K ( over £250K since January 2023) are reported
for approval to the Combined Authority at its regular meetings. These
meetings and the considered reports and decisions can be accessed on the
Combined Authority website at [1]this link.

I trust that this information is of interest to you.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review, which should be addressed to:

Louise Outram

Chief Legal Officer / Monitoring Officer

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

[2][email address]

If you are not content with the result of your internal review, you also
have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner, whose address
is

The Information Commissioner’s Office,

Wycliffe House,

Water Lane,

Wilmslow,

Cheshire SK9 5AF

[3]www.ico.org.uk

Andy Henderson

Senior Information Management Officer | LCRCA | Mann Island, PO Box 1976,
Liverpool, L69 3HN

Email: [4][Liverpool City Region Combined Authority request email]

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