Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government which elections for mayors of combined mayoral authorities will definitely take place in May 2017 and which others may take place in May 2017 depending on the progress of legislation.

Legislation has been made for combined authority mayoral elections to take place in May 2017 in Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, Sheffield City Region, Tees Valley and the West Midlands. In addition, with certain other areas the Government has agreed devolution agreements, the implementation of which would include the holding of mayoral elections in May 2017; these areas are Greater Lincolnshire, the West of England, and East Anglia, where in this last case local leaders are evolving the agreement into two distinct deals – one for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and one for Norfolk and Suffolk.