Agenda and minutes

Extra-ordinary Meeting, Cabinet - Monday 14th November, 2016 3.00 pm

Venue: Town Hall, Bootle

Contact: Steve Pearce  Democratic Services Manager

Items
No. Item

50.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

No apologies for absence were received.

51.

Declarations of Interest

Members are requested to give notice of any disclosable pecuniary interest, which is not already included in their Register of Members' Interests and the nature of that interest, relating to any item on the agenda in accordance with the Members Code of Conduct, before leaving the meeting room during the discussion on that particular item.

 

Minutes:

No declarations of any disclosable pecuniary interest were received.

52.

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Order pdf icon PDF 95 KB

Report of the Chief Executive

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Further to Minute No. 60 of the Council meeting held on 19 November 2015, the Cabinet considered the report of the Chief Executive which outlined the interim legal and governance requirements to establish the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Mayoral Model with devolved powers and functions agreed as part of the Devolution Deal by all of the constituent local authorities and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority in November 2015.

 

The Department for Communities and Local Government had confirmed that the acceptance of the draft Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Order was an executive decision.

 

The report included the following two appendices:

 

Appendix A –The proposed powers to be conferred on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Liverpool City Region Mayor which had been set out in the Governance Review and Draft Scheme on which the Combined Authority consulted with stakeholders and the public earlier in 2016; and

 

Appendix B –The Liverpool City Region Mayoral Combined Authority Scrutiny Principles.

 

The Chief Executive reported that the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Functions and Amendments Order was only received by Council Officers on Friday evening, 11 November 2016 after normal business hours and that having reviewed the Order, it is considered that further work is required to ensure that it reflects the Devolution Deal agreed by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and the Constituent Local Authorities in November 2015. As a consequence of that, Officers had contacted the Department for Communities and Local Government and the deadline for the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and the Constituent Local Authorities to agree the terms of the Order had been extended to 12 December 2016.

 

Decision Made: That

 

(1)       the Cabinet notes that the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Functions and Amendments Order was only received by Council Officers on Friday evening, 11 November 2016 after normal business hours. That having reviewed the Order, it is considered that further work is required to ensure that it reflects the Devolution Deal agreed by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and the Constituent Local Authorities in November 2015;

 

(2)       the Cabinet requests that a further report on the Order be submitted to either the next scheduled Cabinet meeting to be held on 1 December 2016, to or an extra-ordinary Cabinet meeting on a date to be determined, if so required;

 

(3)       the Cabinet acknowledges that this action will not comply with the original Government timetable to lay the draft Order before Parliament after 21 November 2016, however, now understands that this has been extended to 12 December 2016; and

 

(4)       it be noted that the Leader of the Council and the Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Regulatory, Compliance and Corporate Services) had given consent under Rule 27 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules and Rule 46 of the Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rules for these decisions to be treated as urgent and not subject to "call in" on the basis that they cannot be reasonably deferred because the Liverpool City Region  ...  view the full minutes text for item 52.