Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is incurring “significant costs” as it resolves a contract dispute.
Like all local authorities, the city region is considering its position as the new financial year comes into view. Earlier this year, the combined authority passed its annual budget for 2023/24 but a financial performance report, to be discussed later this week, has outlined some challenges facing the six-region body in the year ahead.
Chief among them is a contractual dispute which is totting up “significant costs” according to the report. It said: “Whilst provision has been made within the current year’s budget for these costs, if this dispute becomes protracted, this could place pressure on the budget in the next financial year.
