Supporting bus services represents exceptional value for money with each pound of revenue support bringing multiple benefits. This ranges from cutting congestion to all road users to reducing welfare spending by linking the jobless to the jobs.

Without adequate revenue support bus services will continue to decline - as they were before Covid.

The impact of rail devolution in delivering local policies, from social inclusion to economic growth, has helped create the foundation for a long term rail strategy to underpin the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s economic plan.

For years, London’s orbital railways had been one of the capital’s most neglected transport assets with poor and unreliable services serving run down stations. All that changed following devolution to Transport for London.