Policy paper
City Deal: Liverpool
The City Deal for the Liverpool City Region is part of the first wave of City Deals to get the go-ahead from government.
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The Liverpool City Deal sets out 6 areas to focus on, including:
- an international Business Festival to showcase and celebrates business opportunities to Europe and the rest of the world
- a low carbon red tape pilot to help reduce regulatory burdens and streamline local planning processes, in order to speed up more than £100 million worth of investment in offshore wind infrastructure in the City Region and create 3,000 jobs
- looking at how the River Mersey can become the cleanest river in an urban setting by 2045
- increasing employment by combining up to £80 million public and private employment and skills investments, helping businesses to create more jobs, address skills gaps and raise productivity, supporting 17,400 people into work and creating 6,000 apprenticeships
- transport, by revising the approach to governance and creating a joint investment fund of £800 million, supporting the creation of 15,000 jobs
- using the region’s science and knowledge assets, attracting science investment and generating 2,000 high value jobs
Published 5 July 2012