Find out what the metro mayor candidates in Liverpool City Region are proposing around key themes.

1. youth and
adult skills
Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
• Develop apprenticeship, training and other
facilities in a combined and cohesive system
to help out-of-work residents to access more
jobs across the city region by improving their
skills
• Use the apprenticeship levy to better match
businesses with skills providers across the
city region and improve the quality of schemes
through the apprenticeship hub
• Improve links between councils, business and
key educational institutions across the region
Carl Cashman, Liberal Democrats
• Apprenticeship Grant for Employers.
• Adult Skills Budget.
• Post-16 further education system.
The metro mayor will have control over the:
The above is based on the manifestos made public by declared candidates. Tony Caldeira (Conservatives), Paula Waters (UKIP) and other declared candidates have not published detailed manifestos
• Develop and introduce a new Independent
Careers Service to help young people to make
impartial and informed decisions about their future
work-life options
• Develop a ‘Pathways to Excellence’ programme to
create new connections and opportunities between
our schools, international universities and global
businesses
• Develop an easily accessible apprenticeship
portal that people can access online to apply for
apprenticeship opportunities across the city
region.
Steve Rotheram, LabourTom Crone, Greens
• Workto safeguard Surestart centres across the city
• Promote the role that nature can play in building
exploration, enquiry and wellbeing through expanding
the networkof forest schools and the‘one tree per
child’scheme
• Promote digital skills and opportunities forlifelong
learning by using the city’s libraries as a network
of learning hubs
• Launch a promotional drive to encourage more
people from BAMEbackgrounds to join the
teaching profession
Tabitha Morton,Women’s Equality
• Set monitored targets for applications to the
Government’s Innovate UK scheme from female
entrepreneurs, ensuring more women secure this
vital funding

2. Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
• Expand the Walrus card system, creating an
‘Oyster-like’ system across the region, to include
busses, trains, ferries, tunnels and bridges
• Reduce the Mersey tunnel tolls for commuters
to and from the Wirral
• Improve the bus network, prioritising poorly
connected, often disadvantaged areas throughout
the region;
• Expand the City Bike scheme across the region.
Carl Cashman, Liberal Democrats
The above is based on the manifestos made public by declared candidates. Tony Caldeira (Conservatives), Paula Waters (UKIP) and other declared candidates have not published detailed manifestos
• Work with Merseytravel to ensure that information
about arrival and departure at stations and stops
is clear and can be seen and heard by travellers
• Reduce the fast-tag tunnel fare to £1
• Improve rail connectivity within and to the
city region including direct rail services from
Liverpool to North Wales to improve connectivity
with Wirral, Runcorn and Liverpool Airport
• Expand the number of Merseyrail stations and
support plans for new stations in key locations,
including Liverpool Knowledge Quarter and the
former St James station.
Steve Rotheram, LabourTom Crone, Greens
• Promote healthiermodes of active transport,
including cycling and walking
• Implement a‘VisionZero’approach to road
safety with the aim of eliminating deaths on
ourroads by the year2025
• Reduce speed limits across the city, notjust
on residential streets
• Create traffic-free zones outside schools at
pick-up and drop-off times
• Improve safety and reducing emissions through a
betterBus Priority system;
• Improve cycling infrastructure, including
implementing the“green corridors”concept
identified in the Green Space review
Tabitha Morton,Women’s Equality
• Develop an integrated transport plan, working
with neighbouring councils, LEPs, businesses
and the third sector
• Invest in cycling infrastructure
• Introduce a ‘Night Watch’ service on buses and
trains to improve security.
transport and
infrastructure
• Consolidated transport budget
• Local roads network
• Bus franchising and smart ticketing
The metro mayor will have control over the:

3. Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
No housing policies featured in manifesto
Carl Cashman, Liberal Democrats
The above is based on the manifestos made public by declared candidates. Tony Caldeira (Conservatives), Paula Waters (UKIP) and other declared candidates have not published detailed manifestos
• Convene a high-level housing summit within
the first 100 days in office
• Launch a Metro Mayor’s Housing Challenge
Competition to identify and pilot new ways to
meet our housing needs
• Work with our Local Authorities and veterans’
groups to draw up and sign the first armed
forces City Regional Covenant outside London.
Steve Rotheram, LabourTom Crone, Greens
• Create new council housing and business premises,
to be delivered by a municipally-owned housing
provider
• Re-establish a dedicated homelessness unit within
the council to tackle the increasing problem of
homelessness in the city
• Introduce a planning requirement that all new
construction on council owned land (orland
sold by the council) would have to conform to
Passive House energy standards
• Prioritise the renovation and modernisation of
existing housing stockoverdemolition
• Putting brownfield sites at the top of the list for
housing development.
Tabitha Morton,Women’s Equality
• Ensure councils ring-fence housing for women
fleeing violence
• Increase the stock of affordable housing.
housing and
planning
• £30m per year Housing Investment Fund
• Strategic planning and Mayoral Development Corporations
• Land Commission and compulsory purchase powers
The metro mayor will have control over the:

4. Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
• Provide an alternative to the government's work
programme where individuals can volunteer to
carry out work with community groups rather than
for big companies
• Consult with employers and explore the option of
a Merseyside Minimum Wage set at £8.50 per hour.
Carl Cashman, Liberal Democrats
The above is based on the manifestos made public by declared candidates. Tony Caldeira (Conservatives), Paula Waters (UKIP) and other declared candidates have not published detailed manifestos
• Commit to being a Real Living Wage employer and
work to ensure this is reflected in procurement
undertaken by the Combined Authority.
Steve Rotheram, LabourTom Crone, Greens
• Establish a Bankof Liverpool to provide profitable
investment forinfrastructure and housing in the
region
• Boost city-centre businesses by pedestrianising
more of the city centre
• Revitalise local high streets across the city through
the use of business developmentzones
• Improve employment opportunities fordisabled
people within the council
• Support the introduction of a local currency
forLiverpool
Tabitha Morton,Women’s Equality
• End the zero hours contracts for care workers and
expect a living wage for all
• Make Growth Hub the ‘go to’ place for people
wishing to start up and grow their businesses
• Work with female entrepreneurs and organisations
that provide mentoring and support for women to
tackle the female under-representation in
employment and business start-ups;
• Create 40,000 new jobs within childcare plans.
business and
employment

5. Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
• Establish a Brownfield Development Cooperative
to work in conjunction with a new Merseyside
Land Commission to ensure Brownfield sites are
brought forward for development and to protect
our green belt
• Commission an annual monitoring of air quality
throughout the city region
• Promote and aid the development of a tidal
lagoon off the coast of Southport and promote
the use of innovative renewable energy.
Carl Cashman, Liberal Democrats
The above is based on the manifestos made public by declared candidates. Tony Caldeira (Conservatives), Paula Waters (UKIP) and other declared candidates have not published detailed manifestos
• Develop a City Region-wide strategy aimed at
becoming a zero-carbon city by 2040
• Develop a City Region-wide solar energy strategy
• Establish an investment fund to promote new
renewable and community energy businesses and
initiatives
• Deliver more electric charging points across the
City Region, to enable the expansion of clean
electric vehicles.
Steve Rotheram, LabourTom Crone, Greens
• Guarantee thatWalton Hall Parkwill not be sold to
make way fora football stadium, forhouses, orfor
any othertype of development
• Move to safeguard ourotherparks and green
spaces from the threat of development;
• Launch a 5-yearplan to improve the range of
recycling available to households and businesses
• Workwith the EnvironmentAgency and other
authorities to develop a long-term plan to manage
the surface waterflood risks associated with
global warming.
Tabitha Morton,Women’s Equality
no policies on the environment featured in manifesto
environment

6. Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
• Establish centres of excellence for all disciplines
throughout the Region so that all residents get the
best possible care throughout the Liverpool City
Region
• Ensure public health objectives for preventing
illness and conditions are put in place using the
common media and support facilities from across
the region
• Ensure social care is joined up across local
authority boundaries
• Develop a common social care strategy across
the Region which can readily expand its scale
thus taking out of hospital quickly the 30% of
people who do not need to be there
• Create a health innovation centre with our
universities to ensure that full advantage is taken
of new technologies and methodologies.
Carl Cashman, Liberal Democrats
The above is based on the manifestos made public by declared candidates. Tony Caldeira (Conservatives), Paula Waters (UKIP) and other declared candidates have not published detailed manifestos
No policies on health featured in manifesto
Steve Rotheram, LabourTom Crone, Greens
• Improve access to healthy living options and work
to secure‘Sustainable Food City’status forLiverpool
• Workto improve disabled peoples access to
healthcare services.
Tabitha Morton,Women’s Equality
• Build up a system of universal, affordable childcare
for all children from the age of nine months
• Prioritise integrated health care and social care
health and
social care
• Plan for health and social care integration
The metro mayor will: