Steve Rotheram, Liverpool City Region Mayor, has stood by a claim Merseyside would lose more than £10.2m in funding after Brexit, telling the government “we will not accept crumbs off the table.”
Between 2014 and 2020, nearly £28m of EU money was given to organisations in the Liverpool City Region every year or £250m in total. From 2015 to 2022, the combined authority directly received nearly £83m with £51m of that going to different councils in the region.
The money went towards programmes to get people into work, diversity and inclusion work, and to develop urban areas. Since the UK left the EU in early 2020, these programmes have wound down and will finish by the end of 2023.
