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HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilLike her fellow Liverpool colleagues, I thank the hon. Lady for the way in which spoke. The timetable for the period ahead is that the report is now available for members of the…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilI recommend that my hon. Friend reads the report by Max Caller, which sets out his observations, having spent the last three months working in and around the council and having…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilI would be happy to meet my hon. Friend, and I should have said in answer to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Paula Barker) that I would of course be happy to meet…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilI hope that, given the remarks the hon. Lady has just made, she is supporting the report that Max Caller has produced and our proposed intervention, and that the Liberal Democrat…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilI am grateful, once again, for the constructive way in which the hon. Lady has approached this issue, like her fellow Liverpool MPs today. The intervention I am proposing is for a…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilI will give further thought to my hon. Friend’s suggestion, but I agree that it would be better for councils to move to all-out elections, and—unless there are exceptional reasons…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilMy hon. Friend raises an important point. We asked a lot of local councils, and we will do so once again as we come out of the pandemic. We want them to be regenerating town and…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilA significant piece of work has been undertaken by the Committee on Standards in Public Life with respect to the way ethics and standards are applied in local government at all…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilCan I thank the hon. Gentleman for the remarks he has just made and for the way in which we have worked together over recent months? He has been most helpful and constructive, and…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilThe elections will go ahead in May, and they will see the election of a new directly elected Mayor. They will also see new councillors elected to the council, and the cabinet…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilThe hon. Lady makes an extremely important point; it is one that I made in my opening remarks. This is a rare intervention. Interventions of this nature have been made on only a…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilI am grateful to the Chair of the Committee. I would be happy to work with him should he require any further information or wish to discuss this matter further. If we go ahead…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilYes, the report is clear that a major cultural change is required at the council. Mr Caller concludes that that will require radical change both by some members and some officers,…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilThe costs of the report that has been undertaken by Max Caller and of the commissioners will be borne by Liverpool City Council. However, I expect that the work to come will save…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilMy hon. Friend raises a very important point. My predecessors have used their powers of intervention very sparingly. They have done so on a small number of occasions, in…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilI do not believe that was looked at as part of this investigation. The highways function of Liverpool City Council was investigated by Mr Caller. He has made some remarks on some…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilWith permission, Mr Speaker, I wish to make a statement about Liverpool City Council. Merseyside police have been carrying out an investigation involving a significant link with…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilAll councils have a fundamental duty to their residents to provide good value for money. At the heart of our decision to intervene in Liverpool, and to commission Max Caller and…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilThe report that we have laid today makes two specific recommendations with regard to Liverpool City Council, as I outlined earlier, first recommending that we move as swiftly as…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Liverpool City CouncilI thank the hon. Gentleman for those remarks. I share his thanks and his praise for many of the staff of Liverpool City Council, and for the good work over the year done by the…24 Mar 2021