Sentences with phrase «many city regions»

Speaking to Business Insider on Tuesday, the Metro Mayor for the Liverpool City Region said there will be a strong case for cities like Liverpool and Manchester to opt out from aspects of a hard Brexit if Northern Ireland is allowed to mirror EU trade and customs arrangements after exit day in March, 2019.

«So far, we've had over 10,000 deals in the New York City region posted by our users.»

Both Rotheram and Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham have called on northern city regions to be given more say in Brexit negotiations between Britain and the EU.

LONDON — Steve Rotheram has suggested that Liverpool and other northern city regions should be able to stay closely - wedded to EU markets after Brexit if the UK government goes ahead with plans for «regulatory alignment» between Northern Ireland and the EU.

He also chairs the board of the Swansea Bay City Region, which is looking to create a digital hub in the city.

A full generation of basically stripping wealth in city regions to prop up other areas will do just that.

MAA typically invests in companies in the Kansas City region and provides early - stage commercialization funding in the «seed round» investment range not typically served by venture capitalists ($ 250,000 — $ 1.5 M).

«We need to continue to educate investors and continue to talk about what's going on in the Kansas City region.

In a message to members, the Chamber said Hoan decided to depart because «his family plans to relocate outside the New York City region.»

And it ended late Sunday night in the middle of America at the John Deere Classic in the Quad Cities region, where Bryson DeChambeau made a furious back nine charge to earn his first ever berth into The Open.

The voluntary commitment comes following extensive discussions with The Living Wage Foundation and Steve Rotheram, mayor of the Liverpool city region, which have taken place over recent months.

To round things off, we thought we would examine a cross section of eight cities, towns and city regions which can be said to be under performing in football terms and which may or may not have the potential to rise to Championship status or above.

Steve Rotheram added: «As mayor of the Liverpool city region, I am delighted that Liverpool Football Club has taken this step and is now committed to becoming a Real Living Wage Employer.

So, the Bristol Post have launched their Make Bristol Greater campaign, aimed at raising the debate about what the Bristol city region should be called and what its governance should look like.

This is an interesting move forward in the debate about devolving power and responsibility to city regions, if based on the right kind of formal structures.

The north - west is doing this, in the Liverpool City Region in particular and in several general key areas: tourism, port expansion, low carbon, knowledge economy and the soon to be International Trade Centre.

It'll be interesting to see how the Bristol city region responds to this, if at all?

Crucially, current approaches to devolution via bespoke city regions and other territorial deals will create asymmetries in policy remit amongst MPs in different parts of England that resemble the very «West Lothian Question'that EVEL is supposed to put to rest.

Governance of Europe's City Regions.

However, at the end of the day, in order to work the new structures that will emerge from the Deals (including elected City Region mayors) will have to take root in the local communities, and have the people behind them — at the polls in local and city region elections; but also on a daily basis.

However, the party has also reiterated its belief in City Regions, a policy first mooted in the wake of the 2004 North - East regional assembly referendum defeat — stating that it will pass an «English Devolution Act» if elected into government, giving more powers to City and also County regions, and replacing the House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and regions to work as a forum for regional representation.

The prevailing wisdom at the Capitol is this: Both chambers of the Legislature want a pay increase, but Assembly Democrats, especially those from the New York City region, want it much more.

But in the absence of directly elected regional assemblies in England, it is unclear how Labour plans to bring together incongruent levels of territorial government: think of Scotland compared to, say, the Leeds City Region.

Improve the skills of those with few or no qualifications to improve their chances of employment and the city region's attractiveness to business investment.

Thirteen months after its devolution deal was first announced, not a single candidate from a major party has come forward to stand in the city region's mayoral election next year, while local leaders have continued to question whether they should even have to introduce a metro mayor full - stop — despite the Communities secretary Sajid Javid stating explicitly that this would continue to be a «real red line» for progressing with devolution deals.

A directly - elected metro mayor will have powers and responsibilities to make strategic decisions across whole city regions, in contrast to existing city mayors (which are also directly elected) or local council leaders that only make decisions for, and on behalf of, their local authority.

Our analysis of voting patterns in the June 2017 General Election shows that Labour has a strong chance of winning across the city region, leading by over 27 per cent over the Conservatives.

Sheffield City Region elected its first metro mayor, Dan Jarvis, in May 2018.

On the one hand, advocates suggest that a directly elected mayor would create greater local political accountability and raise the profile of cities and city regions.

A proportion of seats in 106 other local authorities were also being contested, not to mention five local mayoralities and the new metro mayor for the Sheffield City Region combined authority.

«This is the dawn of a new era, not just for this city region but for politics in our country.

The delayed election for the Sheffield City Region followed in May 2018.

A spatial plan allows the metro mayor to be bold and strategic about the future growth of the city region, making best use of the land available, especially within its city centres

Below is a summary of the powers the new Sheffield City Region metro mayor will have, subject to public consultation and Secretary of State order.

The table below sets out the agreed combined authority powers in the different city regions so far:

Central Government invites each combined authority to set out the details of how the checks and balances will work in their city region.

Liverpool, for example, has a city mayor but has agreed to a metro mayor for the whole city region.

Sheffield City Region will elect its first metro mayor in May 2018.

South Yorkshire Mayoral Sheffield City Region Mayoral Election 2018 Party Candidate 1st round 2nd round First round votes Transfer votes Total Of round Transfers Total Of round Labour Dan Jarvis 122,635 47.1 % 21,519 144,154 74.0 % Conservative Ian Walker 37,738 14.5 % 12,881 50,619 26.5 % Liberal Democrat Hannah Kitching 27,146 10.4 % Yorkshire Party Mick Bower 22,318 8.6 % Green Robert Murphy 20,339 7.8 %...

This page provides some of the key economic data for Sheffield City Region as well as voter polling.

The directly - elected metro mayors are responsible for setting out a strategy for growing the city region economy, and will have certain powers over issues such as housing, transport and skills.

Improve public transport with a strategic plan to make the West Midlands work as a single city region to live, work and travel across.

The introduction of metro mayors, on the other hand, was part of the Conservative Party manifesto ahead of the 2015 general election, and part of their wider plan to devolve more powers from national government to city regions.

The local authorities in that area maintain the same powers over housing as before, but the metro mayor is consulted on planning applications that are of strategic importance to the whole city region.

Or would we be better narrowing our focus and seeking a West Yorkshire only deal covering most but not all of the City Region?

We were willing - despite our fundamental objections to elected mayors - to deliver a City Region deal and saw this effectively blocked by Tory MPs in narrow party political grounds.

After 12 months in the job, the digital performance of the heads of the six city regions is assessed by Georgina Maratheftis of techUK

In 2017 elections were held for Greater Manchester, the Liverpool City Region, the, Tees Valley, West of England and the West Midlands as part of the devolution deals allowed by the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016.

In the Sheffield City Region, however, there has been little sign of this kind of impetus.

The metro mayor should show that congestion charging can benefit the whole city region, through investment in public transport for poorly connected areas