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Annual Review 2023/24

Eight images depicting: Liverpool's Waterfront, Shakespeare North in Knowsley, Children playing on the beach in New Brighton, a family taking a selfie at Eurovision, two people walking down the street in front of Rockpoint Records New Brighton, people standing in a line next to Antony Gormley's 'Another Place', The Dream sculpture in St Helens and cyclist on Halton cycle path in front of the Runcorn bridge

A fairer, stronger, cleaner, connected, vibrant city region where no one is left behind

Our Annual Review for 2023-24 sets out the Combined Authority’s activities and achievements during the last 12 months.

  • From large-scale regeneration projects to the UK’s first all-electric, battery powered train fleet servicing a new £80m station, bus reform, a new Innovation Zone, job creation, fair employment, adult education, skills training, infrastructure and equalities, the Combined Authority kept the city region moving and delivered opportunity and success over the last year.

  • Alongside its partners, the Combined Authority also continued to work towards its net-zero target, provided cost-of-living support to hard-hit residents, brought the business voice closer to economic policy making and laid the foundations for an even stronger visitor economy for years to come.

  • Activity was guided by the three-year Corporate Plan’s key themes of creating a fairer, stronger, cleaner, connected and vibrant city region – with no-one left behind.

  • Read the Annual Review document (PDF 9MB)

    Foreword from the Mayor

    Over the last 12 months, we have taken many positive steps towards realising my ambition to make the Liverpool City Region the best place to grow up, grow a family and grow a business. While we recognise there is much more we want to achieve alongside a new government, this past year has been one of transformation for the city region.

  • From the thousands of jobs, training and skills opportunities we’ve created, to the vital investments we’ve made to support our residents through the cost-of-living crisis, I’m incredibly proud of the progress we’ve made to transform people’s lives for the better.

  • At every step of this journey, our residents have been at the heart of our decision-making. Because, for investment to mean anything, local people and communities must feel its benefits.

  • We’ve put an end to four decades of decline in our bus network by taking back control, opened a brand new train station served by first-of-their-kind battery-powered trains. We hosted a fortnight of fun and frivolity, that tens of millions of people around the world will never forget for Eurovision 2023 and we saw the completion of LCR Connect, our publicly owned joint venture, offering local businesses

  • unrivalled digital connectivity for Eurovision 2023 and we saw the completion of LCR Connect, our publicly owned joint venture, offering local businesses unrivalled digital connectivity.

  • Looking to the future, I want to take advantage of our strengths – and potential – and turn them into profitable businesses, creating better, greener jobs and bringing greater prosperity to local people. With further devolution of powers and funding, we can go even further to truly unleash our potential. We are home to the fastest growing city economy, have the country’s most ambitious net zero plans, massive housebuilding aspirations and a plan to tackle the productivity crisis that holds our region back.

  • Make no mistake: this is a place on the rise. As its Mayor, I want to build the most vibrant, growing and inclusive Liverpool City Region possible for the 1.6m people who live and work in our area to succeed.

  • Steve Rotherham

  • Steve Rotheram

  • Mayor of the Liverpool City Region

  • Delivering for the Liverpool City Region year after year

    This Annual Review for 2023-24 celebrates the achievements during the last year of our Corporate Plan for 2021-23.

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  • Read the 2022-23 Annual Review (PDF, 4MB)

    Here, you can read our Annual Reviews from the last two years to find out more about the Combined Authority’s achievements in 2022-23 and 2021-22.

  • Read the 2021-22 Annual Review (PDF, 5MB)

    Corporate Plan

    We have recently published our four-year blueprint to making Liverpool City Region the best place to grow up, grow a family, and grow a business.

    You can read our new Corporate Plan for 2024-28 here:

    Visit Corporate Plan webpage

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