I do not want to labour the point, but the fact is that all the authorities had previously agreed to the name “Liverpool city region”. It was only because the Secretary of State intervened that they eventually decided to give in rather than prolong things, by calling it what they had decided rather than what he had decided.
Local Government: Combined Authority Orders
Proceeding contribution from
George Howarth
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 18 March 2014.
It occurred during Debates on delegated legislation on Local Government: Combined Authority Orders.
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