West Yorkshire Combined Authority - Thursday 7 December 2023, 11:00am - West Yorkshire Combined Authority Webcasting

West Yorkshire Combined Authority
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1 Apologies for Absence

Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:00:30
morning all and welcome to the CA meeting the last one before Christmas, so there are no Christmas, hats or anything, but I, I hope you end up having a good break, so let's start meeting we have a lot to get through so we'll rattle on Ben any apologies.
Mr Ben Kearns - 0:00:56
yes, we've had apologies from Councillor Holdsworth and Bannu Ridgard.
thank you so much do any Members of any interests they wish to declare on the agenda.

2 Declarations of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests

3 Exempt Information - Possible Exclusion of the Press and Public

4 Minutes of the Meeting of the Combined Authority held on 12 October 2023

For Decision

5 Transport Overview

Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:01:06
no, thank you and exclusion of press. There's no items that we will need to exclude press or the public so item 4, turning to the minutes of the CA on the 12th of October, any comments or questions, no, thank you so much and with content to confirm an accurate record. Thank you so much, lovely, so, moving on to the meat of the meeting and we're going to item 5 transport overview this year. As you know, we've made significant strides in delivering on our vision for that integrated transport network that we want for West Yorkshire that London style network. This has included securing important statements of support for mass transit from government in both the Spring Budget and, more recently, Network North document Network. North has also secured a commitment to a new station in Bradford, thanks to the persistent lobbying of Councillor Hinchcliffe and colleagues of ministers and D F T officials and are all of us around this table, because we know that would be a game changer for Bradford. We've progressed our assessment of bus reform options that are now out to consultation. I'll be making a decision next year on franchising and we've delivered a wide range of schemes on the ground, helping more and more people take up.
travel alternatives in their post COVID lives, so really timely to read this report as we consider a busy year ahead of us and we set out our future plans through consultation on the new Local Transport Plan in 2024, so if I may pass over to Councillor Hinchcliffe as Chair of the Transport Committee to talk to the paper and then hand over to
Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe (Bradford Council) - 0:02:46
Simon Warburton, our chief executive director for transport not
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:02:52
achieve our Executive Director, thank you Councillor Angela
Alan Reiss, Chief Operating Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:02:56
thank you very much, Lord Mayor. So it's great to see all this work actually in one place and we go from one meeting to the next and you're approving things, pushing things forward, but just having time to pause and reflect on everything that's happened in the last year just shows really how much actually has happened, and that is great to see. A transport is just such a key driver of economic growth and the fact that our transport has not been good enough for the last 100 years, probably actually or has held back our region and becoming more productive and are getting more jobs, more high quality jobs and and I do feel you know the country talks a lot about growth at the moment we've got the right ingredients for success here and having this investment will really propel us forward one, we're looking to create a growth and jobs
so I've got a few things to say at the end of that, but as a prelude at 7.00 do you want to just go through the paper, then I'll I'll just come back in at the end, thank you.
Simon Warburton - 0:03:48
thank you very much, yeah, we felt it was important, and picking up on are exactly the points that have been made just to bring together and the programme that has been delivered through the year, actually principally to highlight the the step change again that we will take ourselves through as we look ahead 2 2 2024 so as of highlighted in the paper we will move next year.
into a capital programme for towards 24 2025, which will be at least 50% step up on the level of capital programme delivery.
that we will have achieved through this year, and there is intensive work underway at the moment with colleagues across all five authorities and also departments within the Combined Authority, to ensure that we have both the right capability and capacity in place to maintain and that progress, and that also our assurance framework is in the right position to enabled the Transport Committee and the Combined Authority to be able to take timely decisions.
throughout that busy year, in February of next year, we anticipate bringing forward for your consideration and approval, the strategic outline case for phase 1 of the mass transit programme, and that will then trigger a significant year of
activity from the summer onwards
in beginning to consult the public on the options that we've identified for our priority corridors, with a very clear focus on us being ready to draw down the indicative capital which has now been set out for the periods C or SDS to.
a and C or SDS 3
and of course
in March of next year, we will be bringing forward the conclusion of the consultation which has.
just a month today, left around
the bus reform assessment and, depending on the outcome of that consultation.
it may well be then that there is again a significant step change in our activity in preparing, for whichever.
new model of bus reform. We look to take forward drawing on the very firm conclusion that it had around this type of when we brought the assessment, for with the certainly doing nothing is not an option, so we start from a strong base but the job ahead will only be more challenging and I think we're very much looking forward to
Alan Reiss, Chief Operating Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:06:53
thank you silencer, and particularly excited about mass transit opportunities. It's something we've wanted for some time we now see a timeline for delivering it. We see Monaco from government to be able to accelerate that progress and actually you know consultant about what it means for West Yorkshire and that's that's great, so we can get that achieved. I mean that's a huge legacy project that is really going to transform our economy. Also, you mentioned a mayor earlier about the substantive station in Bradford. I'm really delighted about that and we're working. You know hand in glove with government with
Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe (Bradford Council) - 0:07:26
whom Harriman has been very supportive as rail minister, to really make sure that those plans are ready for a business case next year to government and get that propelled forward. A couple of things in the papers all talked about the assurance framework, which is very robust, but we also need to make sure it's fit for purpose of the different levels of investment, and I think there is probably further work to be done and done on that in the year to make sure that it is proportionate with the scale of the project and active travel. England. People have heard me talk about travelling them before. I do think that money should probably be devolved to combined authorities, and
we obviously it's a new organisation, we'll have to see how that settles down, but we need to make sure that they're much more sited on our regional priorities and therefore are are working with us in step to deliver what we know local people need and deserve in fact in the future so those are just the two things at Pickup Brennan and
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:08:24
determined paper thank you so much Susan and it's certainly something that I was raising with active travel England that it needs to really understand our whole region.
and how that we are all interconnected between our regions. I was also pleased to see that the National infrastructure Commission also recommended to government that mass transit was a no. You know was absolutely got to be delivered for West Yorkshire, so we're all singing the same song, which is always nice, not often we get that, but it's good to hear and certainly that commitment spades in the ground by 2028 is something that I went way for from so questions on this item. Yes, Councillor Poulsen,
thank you Mayor, and thank you for the paper, say wow I agree it was a very useful time to bring sort of a snapshot summary of where we are, because I think you know we've had an unprecedented amount of funding coming in from government for what a wide range of short, medium and long-term transport projects obviously Bradford station is very, very
Cllr Rebecca Poulsen - 0:09:22
dear to mine and Susan's heart on this one, so we will both keep pushing that one forward make no no, a problem with that one.
they just do some clarity, really the capital programme has has things delivered and then there's the active travel programme, the Steeton and Silsden Park and Ride sits within the capital programme in the report, we're still, we've got them, the active travel which I presume it comes under the bridge.
to get to the station at Steeton and Silsden, so it is that one likely to there any update on that one, or can you give me one sort of later on maybe Melanie's area that would be useful to know, because I think that's key we've got the great new park and ride at the station but yeah, they need to be a bit joined up here, thanks Melanie.
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:10:13
yes, thank you, the the scheme for the bridge is actually in the
Melanie Corcoran - 0:10:20
Sierra SDS programme, so it's it's in there, but at the moment the allocation that we have is insufficient to fund the scheme, so we're just looking at options now with the Council and and looking at how we might take something forward there but yes, it is in one of the programmes.

6 Fair Work Charter

Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:10:40
thank you any further comments, no happy to note or the progression achieved against our transport priorities, and that the Combined Authority notes and comments on the priorities and approaches set out to deliver that step-change in output in 2024 all happy to agree good stuff, thank you so much moving on to the firework charter and an absolute privilege.
to launch our firework charter last month at the University of Bradford, so it has taken two years, but we were determined to get it right. We've had more than 40 Ellie doctors even before the launch, and so thank you to those businesses that have decided that this is a great movement to be part of and also thank you to our local authority partners who have also stepped up to the fair work charter and it really are an amazing celebration of progressive employers in the region committed to providing good and fair work and a call to action for others and improving the quality of work not only has benefits to individual employees but to the overall business, to helping drive improvements in output and productivity and also in retention. And it is the churn of workforce that often cost businesses far too much. So to retain staff is also an added bonus
this was developed in close or
contact with and support of employee representative bodies and the trade union movement, and really pleased we're continuing to work in partnership with the T USC, to help us move forward to the next phase engaging businesses and workers with the charter. So I'm going to pass over to Councillor James Lewis as chair of the business economy and innovation committee and then handing over to Felix Kumi on profile, our director for inclusive economy, to talk about the wider implications and then Alan Reece are a chief operating officer. Is gonna talk about how we're leading the way on this as a CA, so it's a a three-pronged approach, so Councillor Lewis
Cllr James Lewis (Leeds City Council) - 0:12:43
thank you very much, what was beyond your introduction on this, and I think it's a certainly great piece of work and I think the positive thing is a number of people are signing up to a number of employers are signing up to the principles of the fair work charter doing it voluntarily and recognise this isn't something that's been imposed.
from here, but some other people want to be part of, because I recognise it as an important part of attracting and retaining staff.
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:13:09
and taking the approach that come in the water's lovely, I think, made it very attractive rather than or AC a stick and no carrot, so as that was a really pleasing approach of feelings.
Felix Kumi-Ampofo, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:13:23
thank you very much more, and your introduction, as Councillor Lewis has just said, has picked up a lot of it, so I won't go through the whole paper, I'll just pick up a few of the points if that's OK.
the Charter was successfully launched last month and, as the most just said, we had literally about 40 employee employers already signed up before. We're not really pushing those numbers right now, because we are in the process of appointing a delivery partner whose role it will be to go out. There are engaged and make sure we sign up as many businesses into the coalition as possible that 96,000 businesses in West Yorkshire, so forties have great staff while we've got a fairway if every to go, and you know we're not going to promise what a ceiling will be, we don't know yet, but we're gonna give this a a really a really good go when we brought this paper last time, the board asked us a couple of questions and we're hoping that this begins to answer some of them. So that's a question about what a baseline is, while the current picture is and or where we, starting from so paragraph 2.6 onwards in the paper begins to set that out. There is more work to do, to make sure we've got even greater depth of analysis and data, to inform what we're going, but the information we've got the data. I begin to give us a sense of of of where we are at industrial, for example, that in in West Yorkshire we have quite a good.
the high percentage of employees who say that no opportunities for career progression in their role, and there are many who say that there isn't the level of employee engagement or involvement in the organisation that work for it's not where they would like it to be.
when it comes to not having a desire contract or unpaid overtime, even though the numbers are the percentages are lower, we would still like to see those four for a lot more, so hopefully this begins to give us a bit of a sense any section 2.7 paragraph 2.7 we summarise some of the key points as well about where we feel we are female employees and all our employees are more likely to be due to have satisfactory hours but unpaid overtime and,
it has a higher prevalence among those working in highly paid occupations and employees are aged between 35 and 54 and the rest of the bullet points there sets out some of the summary points that we've got, you also asked a question which Alan will speak to about whether Combined Authority itself is in relation to what other charter expects of employers and we've put in a lot of information there which, as I said Alan will summarise shortly.
and I think finally, it's just worth bringing up that we are looking, as I say, to our points early in the new year delivery partner, whose role it will be to work with employers.
currently there is a website with an application form and no, but that's just a holding position, what we would like to move to is something that is a bit more intuitive, easier for employers to engage with, to understand what is expected and for in place to actually be keen to to join because they can actually see the positives and we don't have to sell it too much because they can see so many other or other peers involved in this and celebrating the success as being able to celebrate.
a good employer that's got in West Yorkshire.
will be particularly important in making sure that the news gets out without us being preachy about it, so I ended there. This is where we are and there's a lot more to come and will come into coming back regularly to update the board. Thank you. Thank you so much. Phoenix
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:17:18
and certainly bigger companies find it easier to do it, and that's why we worked so hard to make sure that it was very attractive for SMEs because of the high percentage of SMEs in West Yorkshire, and I welcome your approach to the website because I went on it too.
find out more information and if it feels like you've got to give all your information before you can understand what you're gonna get for it, so I I I'm I'm really grateful that you're seeing that as a priority to to tantalise businesses first before they have to start inputting all of their details. That's probably the best way round to
Alan Reiss, Chief Operating Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:17:56
do it. Alan thank you, ma am so just building on on the comments that have already been made, so a key, a key thing with this, we prefer, which of course is that is that it is about going on a journey of continuous improvement, and so we have carried out our own assessment of where the Combined Authority sits against the criteria within the FA charter, and the report provides some information about how we currently measure up and also identify some areas where we recognise that we want to go further. So I'll I'll just briefly summarise against the five
the five aspects of the firework charter so firstly around opportunities, the Combined Authority has a really clear ambition to bring in a more diverse workforce and make sure that we are representative of the communities of West Yorkshire, and so we've already undertaken a number of number of things around broadening where we advertise our roles and making sure that we are reaching out to in particular under representative grew underrepresented groups and then making sure that we're providing more inclusive recruitment practices.
and we have and where we are, and we anonymous applications, of course, so there is some further work to do in terms of making our recruitment practices fully inclusive, particularly with regard to neuro diversity. But those, but we've we've made a lot of progress in this space. Secondly, we offer a range of apprenticeships to people across the organisation in order to develop talent, and we've also begun having people on some of the programmes that are run by Solace, the Society of Local Authority Chief executives, particularly around developing future future leaders. And finally, on this we offer a range of flexible working arrangements, including
hybrid, working, part-time working, job shares, et cetera, in terms of security, all of our members of staff, including our apprentices, repaid, are paid at least the real living wage and we are going to.
hopefully become a living wage Foundation employer in the near future, we also monitor our ethnicity and gender pay gaps, and we, when we publish those on an annual basis with associated action plans in the next round of vows, is gonna be coming forward to the finance resources and corporate committee in the new year and I can happily say that we have secure contracts and conditions with no 0 hours 0 hours contracts.
in terms of wellbeing, I absolutely recognise the value of ensuring that there is good physical and mental wellbeing for people across the organisation, and we have a range of services that replace, including, of course, swiftly making reasonable adjustments for people in the organisation and ensuring that we have mental health first aid is,
in your in the organisation as well.
and we make sure that we're able to signpost colleagues to a range of other other support services in terms of employee voice staff are involved in decision making throughout the organisation, there are some formal there's a formal aspect of that which is through engagement with the trade union of course, but we also have a range of staff network groups around black, Asian and minority ethnic staff.
LGBTQ A plus staff and staff with disabilities, a gender equality group and a young employee network and most recently a support group for parents of children who are neuro diverse, so we have a range of engagement, opportunities that we've created, that enabled staff to put forward their their views as to how we can become an even more inclusive better organisation and then finally in terms of fulfilment.
we have. We identify learning and development requirements every year we have over over kind of performance management objective, setting learning and development plan processes that you would expect we, that there are some areas of improvement here. So, for instance, one of the areas of the Fair Work charter is around leadership and management training. We think there's some further development to do on that to ensure that we're supporting everybody in the organisation to be who is in a management position and wants to be in a management position to fulfil that role as effectively as they can. So that's a that's a summary that I suggest that at some point in the future we bring back a further note on progress, as Phoenix were saying
we are, we are confident we match up pretty well against the vast majority of the of the content of the Fair Work Charter was noting there, so there are always some areas that we can improve, thank you so much and of course as they police and Crime Commissioner, we are
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:22:50
also working closely with the police to make sure that we have good outcomes with the firework charter across all of our organisation, so thank you so much for that.
and we are are on a mission to be the best Mayoral Combined Authority in the country, so this is taking us on that journey, thank you so much.
any comments on the firework charter, yes, Councillor Poulsen,
thank you, ma am just might have interested the 43.
businesses of a mixture of sort of semi and larger employers. Obviously five of them will be the local authorities and then that combined authority, but it is it as it's a mixture, or is it just major employers at this stage, and also can I put forward for the recommendation that this comes back to the board after the one year review, just to give us an update paper, I think that would be useful
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:23:43
for all members. That's a great suggestion. Thank you, Rebecca. We will definitely do that and regarding the SMEs and the the variety of
Felix Kumi-Ampofo, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:23:54
businesses Phoenix, yes, we do have quite a good mix right now. We are happy to share the list of more information. The number of SMEs. There's also quite a good spread in terms of sectors, so we have some professional services, organisations, legal firms, etc but also the Chambers. Do you see it was quite a mix
but we are happy to share to share that list and we will definitely come back at the end of the year, there will be an evaluation
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:24:21
wheelchair will share where we can to thank you, and hopefully you will be advocates for this wherever you go, whichever business you speak to please do encourage people to sign up to the Fair Work Charter Councillor Scott,
Cathy Scott (Kirklees Council) - 0:24:33
thank you, I think this is welcome news and it's nice to hear that there's 96,000 businesses and there's an opportunity not only of signing up for the fail or work charter, but collaborative working and sharing good practice, so the commenter each other and probably facilitate business between each other, so I've just got to commend the work that has gone on here and it is good to see this coming into practice.
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:24:58
thank you for your support, and certainly our ambition is obviously to get more money in people's pockets as well, so the real living wage is an important part of that.

7 Budget and Business Planning

thank you all We're all happy to note the work and the Fair Work charter. Thank you. Lovely. Moving on to budget and business planning item 7 on the agenda, and this provides an update on the Cs. Current budget and business planning process outlines the key financial pressures we're facing, as well as those difficult strategic choices we are going to face over the next few years, and this budget cannot be seen in isolation from the budgets being discussed by our local authority partners. At the moment, we've all got ambitious plans for our region, which will help deliver growth and level up opportunities across the country, but we will never deliver on the full potential of devolution if our local authority partners are pushed to the brink.
as a result of 13 years of austerity and rising demand pressures in adult and children's social care, the choices my colleagues are facing around this table are impossible and certainly not what brought anyone into politics, I've been urging the government at every opportunity to do the right thing and take action to support local public services before it's too late.
the budget update this paper contains shows that we're not immune ourselves from these challenges elsewhere in local government, and the initial budget position shows our revenue gap is currently 5 million pounds because of cost pressures. Nowhere, obviously, near the scale of the challenge facing our partners. So I'll hand over to Angela Taylor our director of finance, to explain this in more detail in a moment, but I'm confident that this can be managed properly ahead of setting our final budget in February. It sets out two areas where I'm trying to do things to help partners and the public, and that the first is helping partners
by proposing to keep frozen the transport levy, which you will maybe know around the country. The transport levy in local authorities has been going up. I'm proposing to freeze it, therefore not adding to the financial burden my partners are facing and the second decision is to not introduce a mayor or precept this year in a cost of living crisis. I don't think this is the right time to do so, so if I could just pass over to Angela to talk through key points in the paper, thank you
thank you, Mayor.
Angela Taylor, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:27:27
I don't have to follow that introduction, it set out all the key issues, therefore, so I'll talk a little bit through what's, in the paper for you for any comments and questions we brought a paper to you in October setting out our approach to business planning and budget and this paper is the next step and as we work towards the February meeting to set the levy and agree the budget and business plan so it sets out where we've reached so far in our work on business planning and budget and the budget going.
alongside that business planning, because without the budget the business plan might be achievable,
I am working slightly backwards Appendix 2 gives the summary level multi year outcomes for each directorate seeking to achieve.
and obviously, if you have any comments or questions on those, if there's anything missing from there, please do flag that for us to take away as we try to ensure that what we've got in, it is aligned with the expectations and ambitions in your authorities and will be developing that up into detailed business plans and KPI that will come back for approval in the new year.
so, alongside the business plan, has to be the budget.
the paper sets out, then the challenges on each of our different areas of activity within the budget,
the overall position at this stage is set out in Appendix 1 and gives us, at this point of five, just over 5 million pound gap to close that gap then widens in subsequent years, and so f our focus remains on on 24 25 initially, and as as the Mayor set out in her introduction, we are clearly
subject to inflationary and demand pressures on the services we provide, it isn't the same services provided by local authorities and the scale of our challenge is different to that facing colleagues around the table, but one of our particular difficult areas to manage as bus tendered services, where inflation is running well above normal LHA rate and we're finding 30% increase on contract renewals. We have set out in the paper as as the Mayor referenced, that our starting point is that we continue a levy freeze despite those pressures and and that's in recognition of the challenges everyone is facing today.
obviously, as I have are proposing, increases two or 3% building on other increases, so we are currently a little adrift of of where our partners are, but we are doing our best to manage that and we're working through the pressures on the tendered services that we provide and looking how we can try and maintain the existing network despite the increases by combination of reviewing what we have and the funding that we have got that, we have said we set a transport reserve up last year and were seeking to use that this year and next to
this is to carry through the the managing the cost of tendered service network, also looking at how a piece of money can help support or supplement that we're also working on the capital programme, Members may recall papers previously where we've had to consider our main programmes and adjust the delivery of project Paulson takes him out in order to contain the the high rates of inflation being seen on projects that have been delivered across all our partner authorities.
in order to try and fund that capital programme we are looking at applying the interest income that we've earned on our cash balances and that will help narrow the gap, but it will not close that gap between the funding we have and the inflationary impact on those capital programmes. So over the next two months will continue to scrutinise the budget line by line and the assumptions underpinning it seek to bring that budget gap down. We'd be bringing the Treasury Management Strategy and the reserves strategy to governance and audit committee in January and there'll be a full update to the finance resources and corporate committee in January ahead of the February meeting. Obviously also happy to provide briefings between now and then, as as Members would like
I am happy to take any comments or questions and handback tumour, thank you, thank you, and I would encourage Members to take up the
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:31:33
offer of as well as briefings because of obviously it's hard to disseminate from papers, sometimes the the true scale of the challenge, so please do reach out to Angela if there's any questions or concerns any questions from our colleagues.
no, yes, Councillor Hinchcliffe, and thank you Mayor for officer
Alan Reiss, Chief Operating Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:31:55
champion in local authority funding as well at this very difficult time, I think all local authorities across the country are really
Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe (Bradford Council) - 0:32:02
struggling financially, this paper obviously sets out.
it's obviously quite a few things that are happening in the market if the combined authorities as well, I just obviously there's no decisions to be made on this paper today. This is just for noting, isn't it of my understanding, so the stool of slavery still in a state of flux. There was an a briefing call this morning with local government minister, which was still digesting. So this is very much watch. This space is that we live in very uncertain times and and that's part of the issue actually that we don't have certainty about our funding in the future and makes it very difficult for long-term planning and, of course, the combined authorities on about long term as their long-term change so
welcome the paper but obviously more work to do, thank you, thank you
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:32:44
so much, so we're.
happy to

8 Project Approvals

consider the key business planning outcomes proposed and that we consider the budget pressures and challenges happy to do that, thank you just on this item, I'd also like to mention that this this landscape could change going forward, obviously there could be a general election and that could change.
Over the next of 2 3 years, but also the work that we've done as a CA, leading the charge working with D-lock for level 4, I'd like to thank Ben and colleagues for really working incredibly hard when the feedback was that number 10 didn't necessarily want to sign it off before the autumn statement that we got that.
a framework for level 4 over the line, and it will hopefully mean that, whilst we have a process to go through, that, there will be further stabilisation of funding from D-lock and around transport, which will give us that opportunity, as Councillor Hinchcliffe said, for the long-term planning rather than those beauty contests and the bidding wars that were we've seen previously that have wasted so much money from councils and ourselves in submitting bids that are then unsuccessful, but I wonder if Ben, could you just give us?
at thumbnail about where, where we're at, and the next steps, thank you.
thank you Mary, yes, that's right to so, as the Met has said, kind of
Ben Still, Chief Executive (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:34:18
tucked into the autumn statement was some additional elements of a devolution, additional options that those places that already have.
mayors who are moving towards them can seek to apply to government for some additional devolution responsibilities, or or or elements, and we will bring a paper to a future CA that sets out what will those options are, but I guess we're very conscious that what the government said in in that note technical note they call it was that
4 for the government to respond to any applications for those powers before local government per day, the responses the applications have to go in from mayoral areas by the end of January 2024, so one that doesn't fit very well with the Combined Authority meeting schedules. So so what we are proposing is that will engage members of the Combined Authority, kind of in between meetings explaining where we are in terms of the options that the that are open to us and have wanted to proceed on that basis, because we will need to to submit something by the end of January that that requires the agreement of the five constituent authorities
and the the obvious meetings which to do that because there isn't a Combined Authority meeting in January would be the finance and resources committee which does meet in January, so we could use that as a potential potential signing of point 4 for any application to government and as the Met says
there are a variety of things within that framework that that are potentially of great interest to us, particularly additional freedoms.
around or around single settlements, the individual government departments allowing within boundaries the the the flexing and the movement of funding between different programmes, which is something that we've been seeking for a while, and also for those places that have have to have level 4 accountabilities.
the ability to move away from competitions towards receiving allocations, so now will need to consider the pros and cons of some of these, and there's lots of other measures in the Framework as well,
but the purpose here was to get it on the record that we, this is a yeah, this is of interest to Members and to the Combined Authority, and suggested we then deal with this by correspondence between now and
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:36:54
the next meeting back, thank you, thank you and Members will know that my ambition for for us is to have that single settlement that trailblazer deal that you've seen in Greater Manchester and West Midlands and this is a bridge to that.

8 a) Skills Bootcamps Project Approvals

I don't think we would have been able to get to that point without this work. That's been done to give us that framework of what that actually looks like, so thank you again, as Ben says, we will keep you updated with more information going forward, but I think it is a good step and I I'd also like to thank Michael Gove actually for leading the charge on this in number 10 and round the cabinet, so owe more to come, so thank you, thank you for that Ben just to get that on record Super, so moving on to the approvals and item 8 A. This is about providing more support to our skills bootcamps. So if I could pass over to Councillor Cathy Scott, chair of the skills committee before then hand it back to Felix to introduce the item, so Cathy
Cathy Scott (Kirklees Council) - 0:38:00
this application relates to additional funding from the school spill come it's an additional 5 million for the DFC to support the commissioning and training of thousand participants and extending the scheme for a further year, which is welcome news if we do go go for it, so the model is prescribed by the D F B for 12 to 16 weeks.
courses for adults with possible jobs and guaranteed interviews at the end of it, so it's used effectively, it has been used effectively for the last couple of years in West Yorkshire alongside the devolved adult education budget.
local authorities, it would be a good idea if they could commissioning for the provision themselves, but equally working alongside the combined authority to do this, so as a split there between the birth,
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:38:45
so it's exciting news. Thank you Felix anything further to add
Felix Kumi-Ampofo, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:38:51
thank you very much more, not a lot to add, I suppose, just to note in here, this is the fifth we've 5 million pounds to date if we approved this, then we are, I think, I've asked for 12 million pounds from this.
as chief exec Ben has just talked about level 4 devolution, and depending on where that goes part of what is being proposed is that we give greater flexibility around funding pots of this nature, so no doubt there will be more to talk about in this regard in the future.
this 4 way 5, you will see in the scheme summary the set-up sectors, that we are key sectors, that we are looking to focus on and to support the way this works is that the DSG SDF-DRR has preselected a number of sectors from which we we choose from a menu which ones we would focus on for about 70% of their funding.

8 b) Brownfield Housing Fund Approvals

therefore, the remaining 30%, we have a bit more flexibility and we're working very closely with our local authority partners in this regard, local authorities have the opportunity, have the option really to either receive, grant or grant from us, which they will then procure the support they need themselves or we procure on their behalf, and I think two of our five, I've asked that we put you on their behalf. The other three are doing it themselves and the rest of the rest of the provision would be regionally acute. So the south of what will ripple away. The team has been doing this for a while. The feedback has been very good. We are expecting the final letter from government anytime now, but this, if the board approves, will allow us to to be ready and to be able to start delivering this in time. Thank you. Thank you. So
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:40:38
important. Is it that you can't end more money without extra skills and I'm really pleased that our outcomes of these boot camps are really exceptional and people going on into work is it is really pleasing to see. So we are seeking approval for the single scheme outlined, as we've discussed, to go through to the next assurance process with full approvals of the CIA's funding contribution for delivery and approval of future assurance pathways and routes. The detailed recommendations as set out in the report. Everyone happy to go forward lovely. Thank you so much. Moving on to 8 be brownfield housing fund project approvals investment priority, 3 creating great places. This is seeking approval for us
schemes from brownfield housing fund releasing 3 million pounds for two housing schemes in Leeds which will unlock 300 affordable homes and we know the difference affordability makes to our community could I invite Liz Hunter director of policing environment in place to
Liz Hunter - 0:41:47
introduce the item. Thank you Les thank you, Mayor, sorry yeah, there's this, there are two schemes which I'll go through in a moment and then a couple of tolerances that we would ask for you to enable us to change please. So the first scheme in in your papers is in Seacroft and Gipton and as you have said Ma, the this is about 88 new homes for affordable rent,
across a number of sites in that area and our funding of 1.7 6 million unlocks the the approach for for Leeds to be able to take that forward, and I'm really pleased actually with this one that there's a no gas approach so we are really and a leader or a really striving for the sustainability measures through this through this one and then the second one is Saxton Lane.
and again, it's 400% affordable housing and 204 homes in total, again with IPC standards are at at at least be and 100% electric, which is great to see, and this is being delivered by the Wakefield District Housing Association, so one of our registered providers and then also in the paper. As I mentioned, there are four schemes that you would like to change the tolerances on so in terms of the dates, but just to reassure colleagues that we still expect them to come in within the programme is just not within the project timeframes that we'd originally set out, so there the other recommendations to the
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:43:07
committee today. Thank you. Thank you so much any comments on the schemes, no good, so can we approve the two schemes at Seacroft and Gipton and Sexton Lane to progress through the assurance process, with full approval of the see, a funding contribution of delivery and approval of future assurance pathways and routes

8 c) Better Homes Project Approvals

we can lovely thank you and then approved the extension to delivery timescales for the four other schemes Gollum House.
Q Canal 30 points across phase and sky gardens.
lovely thank you so much okay, moving on to a very exciting item on the agenda. The better homes hub project approvals HC and we can I just say to the teams, thank you for showing great innovation and blue-sky thinking about how we get to 0 carbon by 2038, and this is part of that jigsaw, and it's recommending a delegation to a climate, energy and environment committee and for schemes that are recommended to the CA for progression through the assurance process. So these schemes are coming through, particularly at a time when COP 28 continues to dominate the headlines and we know that mayors are those tugboats that can push governments into the right position on the climate emergency and I have an ambition to see everyone in West Yorkshire living in a warm, comfortable and low carbon home. Obviously a massive amount to do 700,000 homes in West Yorkshire need to be retrofit 665,000 low carbon heating systems need to be installed to meet on Net Zero targets of 2038, we're going to need a whole range of different projects.
to make this happen, I'm pleased to see a number coming forward today, so I'd like to thank the climate and environment committee and particularly Councillor Jane Scullion for her leadership in this space on this important agenda, so could I invite Councillor Scully and Sophie was before handing over to Liz Hunter.
Cllr Jane Scullion (Calderdale Council) - 0:45:15
thank you, Mario was worried when an item is just as exciting, I'll do my best potentially just wanting to say a few things in terms of context of the climate committee, because it doesn't necessarily have the big numbers and a wide factor of the transport schemes or the housing schemes and so on.
and I think because, as we go on, we will see the importance of this are the numbers that figures might not be the same, but I think it is exciting and I think it's exciting for a number of reasons. One is that at a time when actually dealing with climate can actually thinking about climate issues and how we tackle this challenge can be paralyzing, it can be paralyzing. We know that young people are distressed about what their future like is like councils with their financial challenges. So thinking what can they do about climate? Given these other
it immediate demands and I think is important in this paper that what we're seeing as we're starting somewhere. We're starting, we're making a start, it's not everything, but we are where we are runaway. I think the second thing to say is that some of these are relatively small scale projects, but they're about the learning so that we don't waste money in the future and the learning, and I think they will. Companies will be very helpful in terms of guiding future spend. I think the other thing is about cost, and you'll see threaded through these projects that are coming before you today is very much about tenure. Multi tenure is one of the key things is not just about people in social housing, it's about all kinds of tenure of households in terms of saving terms of dealing with fuel poverty, it isn't just people in social housing who are experiencing fuel poverty at the moment, so giving them savings on their fuel bills. Absolutely important to understand how we do that
I think the other thing is scale. We're learning from this from these different projects. How do we scale up to meet this massive challenge study? So that's the context of these particular projects and Mayor, if I could possibly just have a little little parochial for a cute bit in terms of just talking about one of the projects which had the the faith, one coded project, and I really like it, and I think you will like it too, because it's basically looking at a typical terraced street, and I think the street is important because it means that neighbours can have you at your loft, insulated and your underfloor sorted, and you know all these things, actually the power of the narrative about this is possible. This is possible in a typical old cold stone. Terraced house
in West Yorkshire, so being street-based is really important and the other thing is fabric, first is the fabric of the building that we're working on first, not putting in more expensive at this stage, heat pumps and so on, but actually getting those houses the fabric of those houses as standards we possibly can, so I think it's particularly exciting from that to that point of view and you will see in the papers the the BCR that we always look at his low for some of these
make no apologies for that, actually it's about starting somewhere, it's about making sure we'll learn from those and making sure that the future projects are future proofed in terms of cost benefit ratio, thank you, Mayor.
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:48:33
thank you so much, and I do appreciate what you're saying about fabric first and and that sometimes the disruption of a ground source heat pump is just too much for some families and looking at insulation in the first instance is is getting people interested in in lowering their bills, which can make it very attractive so Liz over to yourself.
Liz Hunter - 0:48:56
thank you, you both introduce this thoroughly, so I'll just add a couple of extra points for the committed benefit they are in the paper, but just to highlight really great to see the Calderdale area based scheme coming forward first, but I say first because we are working with each district to try to try different things so it won't be the same as what's in Calderdale as Councillor Golton as has already said.
we want to try and test different different things in different places, and then we can then think about how we, how we scale them up, so don't worry if you're not that street in Calderdale, it doesn't mean that we're not working on what next. Also in the paper, we look at a low interest domestic retrofit loan. This is something new for the combined authority and again as Councillor Skelton has already set out, we want to kind of learn from this, and this is about enabling ha kind of those people to be able to fit energy efficiency measures to their homes. We recognise this is not for everybody, so I really want to stress the points that the Mayor and Councillor screen has already made, that we've got a basket of measures which might be applicable to different people and certainly at climate committee one of the questions was about what about those people that can't afford to take out a loan? This is not really for them, there are other things we're working on. That would help to support to support and support them. We had a really great discussion at climate committee about the low interest rates on loan and quite a lot of scrutiny from from our members, so thank you for that and we've adapted and are working with free procurement on how we take that forward and then the the third item in in this package is working with the West Yorkshire housing providers to put solar PV and storage ons into their homes, and again, this is hopefully it and a new approach with is working with providers. We already worked with them through the social housing decarbonisation fund where we are grant funding and matching them to to do retrofit. This is a slightly different approach where they will be putting the Romany to this as well fitting solar PV, but then there might be a kind of return through the electricity generation to try and see if we can create something revolving so that we can spread it out across all of the all of that housing stock, rather than just the ones that we can currently afford to fund and then also in the paper it's been split out, but just to highlight this further development money as we bring forward other schemes as part of this set of approvals today, so there's quite a lot in there, but I am happy to take better and back thank you and I think all of this shows the power
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:51:23
of partnerships as well and I think devolution has delivered those partnerships and that's why the West Yorkshire housing partnerships is so good that we can work together and and share the load to deliver at pace
to the people of West Yorkshire, so particularly the solar panel programme, I think is is really welcome any comments on any of these projects he has come to Councillor Morley and Councillor Hinchcliffe.
Cllr Matthew Morley - 0:51:45
thank you.
the anomaly is gossamer project going forward in Castleford, where we enjoyed quite a lot of terrace houses in that area, much where I live, we defined out that.
that people want to sign up to it when the Labour-style haven't done. We will absolutely because it just lifted the entire, and so will there be any sort of time limitation on this. So if you know the first of Trump's people overnight, then they will start going to overnight commercial apply, or will it be able to go in from the very start
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:52:18
because I think it is a very exciting scheme, yes, and thank you to the question. I think at the moment we only have a certain amounts of
Liz Hunter - 0:52:22
money to be able to do the demonstrator in this in the Calderdale specific case. We have enough money to look at that street, but we are thinking about how we can work, as I've mentioned, with the with the different tenure in on that's on the street. So if people can afford to pay, then how we can enable them to lower the cost to us. Therefore, in terms of doing that
but we don't have enough, you know we at the moment we need to find ways and work with the private sector as well, to think about how we roll this out because at the moment I don't think there's enough public sector money generally to be able to do everywhere, so this will also help us look at the financing and funding options as well as the actual physical nature of it. So it's a really good question. I think I think if lots of people in the next street said Can Can Can we have asked and that'd be great, but we don't have a pathway yet to the money, but it's admits it's a, it's one. We ought to have have a think about and what one of the things, but we are also working on
the review which was mentioned before is this case, is this one-stop-shop service, so we're hoping to have up and running next year something where at least we can point people towards in terms of advice and whatnots, even if we can't afford to contribute financially, we can at least start to point them to where they can get advice and where they can think through their own ways of doing this if that helps, thank you.
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:53:39
thank you for that, and I also you're dead right that we need to be encouraging those people that can afford it to be energised and to make it as easy as possible for them to go forward. And also a bit bent has reminded me that that's why, in the talking about the gainshare as well, talking about Net Zero is really important. We can't afford to lose sight of how much of a priority this is going forward, but any have Susan then anyone else on this topic. Susan
Alan Reiss, Chief Operating Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:54:11
yeah, I just feel a bliss called that in her last comments, actually I was going to say, was actually. This is really valuable. Projects
Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe (Bradford Council) - 0:54:17
obviously needs to happen. We need to address learning, but the other half of this is how do we scale this or financially, because this is huge money for a small amount of houses and, as you said, one European marksman. This is a massive massive programme and I don't think government have the answer to this either, which is why they keep delaying climate emergency. Things isn't it, because actually they have got the money to pay for it, so I suppose first of all our we're it sounds like Lisa was already thinking about different products for the consumer, but is there something with infrastructure banker, et cetera, are they thinking about those kind of big public sector models, and are we in the conversations nationally because surely they're having these conversations nationally as well about how to fund this stuff? This is a so valuable. If you can get it done, I mean it really reduces people's bills as well.
this is not just climate emergencies, cost of living emergency, but how you achieve it, how you scale this up is, or are they is something that will be answered by these projects. I'm afraid I think that's a really good point in talking to the private sector. People have the
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:55:17
money, but they don't they haven't quite without support from government and leadership from government, they haven't worked out what the model is yet, which I'm hoping that we could be one of the sort of the early adopters of a model that might work, so it's work that we're looking at and certainly the arrival of the infrastructure bank in Leeds. I'm hoping that some of their first projects will be working with us, so we're absolutely in that space, but Liz do you want to come, come back on that? Thank you
Liz Hunter - 0:55:45
yeah, it's not, it's not for me, I don't think anybody's practice are actually, and that's why we're trying to do these and to do these projects. We are also having conversations with people like the Green Finance Institute and they're thinking about different things in different products as well, and I also am picking up with government government officials because, for example, the social housing decarbonisation fund, which is obviously focused about social housing, but it is very competitive and that kind of stop-start nature. So I'm really hoping that this next round, we're in we're potentially in round three next year. I'm really hoping we might get a slightly different relationship with government where we can go into a more partnership approach and be able to set out our plans and see the funding come alongside that
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:56:26
we want to come back on that point, so I think there's there's
Alan Reiss, Chief Operating Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:56:30
something with this project and I do some big evaluation after it, in terms of lessons learned, isn't there that we can then sort of fly the
Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe (Bradford Council) - 0:56:35
flag saying Look, this is what works, is what you need to do, and I think you just need to plan for that because otherwise, then lessons might get lost and and it sounds like they're gonna be quite significant and it could, it could give national learning and we could
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:56:50
be part of that. There's also been pilots in Leeds with wrapping homes and also Coakley's. I've done full retrofits so that there is evidence out there that this this is very, very attractive for the consumer, once it's all done
I am also making the case who knows, when there's gonna be a next general election but making the case to Labour that if there's 28 billion spent on the UK on the green new deal we have, the you know we're manufacturing is in our muscle memory we this is a way to level up the country to really focus on the north in particular and using that money to deliver for the people of the North that you know already are ready to
take action to tackle the climate emergency. I've got a Councillor
Cllr Alan Lamb - 0:57:39
Lamb and then Ben and Councillor scullion. Thank you ma am I just wondered what conversations there have been with the energy providers and if there's an opportunity, if we haven't had them to try and get them as a partner and potential financing options are using future savings from bills to fund loans, and there have been schemes like that in the past, but it seems like a possible mechanism we could
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:58:06
explore in partnerships. Liz, thank you, everybody really good points.
Liz Hunter - 0:58:10
So we are talking to different different providers
kind of SSA octopus attached to named cow to that on top of my head, for some recent conversations and actually later in their papers. We're also looking to do some area energy planning as well, which also ties into the role of the energy providers and and the networks, and how we how we might have a closer working relationship, and they are also on climate committee. So it is pleasing to see that they do attendance and and feed in so certainly the PVI providers, not necessarily the the suppliers, but yes, so it's a long way of saying Yes, we are, but as I think the Mayor mentioned earlier, can trying to crack, that relationship is still one that we're not, quite there with yet, I don't think and again not not. Many places have cracked that in terms of there is private sector money there. It's just making sure
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:59:00
that it can be diverted and put into the right places. Thank you for those innovations of how to do this. Have we've we can find a way there is a way we've just got to you know, not do it, how we've done it before, and take those those new, bold decisions. Then you wanted to come in on that point and Von Gen. Thank you very much. Just a
Ben Still, Chief Executive (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:59:20
quick follow-up point really to lose his comments, but I think the the importance of trying to establish
a or a long term programme, even at a small scale. Once we've understood what the right commercial model is, and it become a kind of mainstream core activity that we do in West Yorkshire feels to me to be really important to to kind of to remove the constant stop-start and then hence to unleash the ability of the supply chain to build to the level of support and skills that we need to see this rolled out, because there are hundreds of thousands of homes across West Yorkshire that need this, and so the sooner we can begin to get a programme. So I'm kind of agreeing with with Councillor Hinchcliffe, but I also think it if there's a way that we can start something going, that we can then leave government money into in due course. just to begin to mention get something something running so yeah therein, with with
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:00:19
we've been a Mayoral Combined Authority of two years, and I know these things take a long time, but I am very pleased that we've got to this point because the better homes hub I think is an innovation that is leading the way at Councillor skeleton,
Cllr Jane Scullion (Calderdale Council) - 1:00:32
I just wanted to say absolutely take the point about rigorous evaluation and research relating to this Calderdale or one of the UK 100 councils, who have basically committed pledge to try to accelerate their commitment to activities aimed at reducing climate change, and that means we've got some extra resource nationally from them in terms of helping the evaluation so we will be watching that terraced streets with interest.
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:01:04
great stuff, any further comments.

8 d) Flood Risk Management Project Approvals

no, so we are happy to recommend to the CA for progression through the assurance process and approval of funding the better homes hub.
yes, good and the better homes hub area based schemes Calderdale sounds fantastic as well, I need to go to the better homes have low interest domestic loans.
service scheme yeah, and the solar PV and battery storage with West Yorkshire Housing Partnership.
all goods, thank you so much, and then there's a single scheme asking for a delegation from the CA to the climate, energy and environment committee, which is the better neighborhoods programme, which is basically accepts accepting grant money from the National Lottery to accept another 150,000 to add to our own better neighbourhoods funds.
yes, if we're successful, of course, yes, if we're successful, I I thought we'd won it, I feel so positive about our return, I always think we're gonna win, but thank you if we are successful then that delegation or happy yes, thank you.
aikido so, moving on to the next item on the agenda, which is the West Yorkshire business board and

9 West Yorkshire Business Board (LEP)

8 d) Flood Risk Management Project Approvals

sorry, it's a flood risk management projects. Sorry, we're moving on, so we haven't quite finished with getting so many projects, all approved and agreed, it's good to see so the Flood Risk Management Project. This is details of a single scheme recommended for progression through the assurance process, and we have done. We see the continuing devastating impact of flooding on our communities and I am so supportive of these measures to help prevent these events occurring. So again, can I pass over to Councillor Skelton and Liz Hunter to talk us through? Thank you so much
Cllr Jane Scullion (Calderdale Council) - 1:03:01
thank you, Mayor and people on various committees have heard me say that I should probably declare an interest whenever we do speak about flooding because elephant Calderdale and we live and breathe flooding and and how we how we tackle it.
and so very, very happy to support this one in terms of what this report is about, is very much about things that we have talked about so much in the climate committee in terms of natural flood management, in terms of, rather than everything being behind high walls and also the odd thing about this report, is it very much is about the approach we've taken in West Yorkshire, which is about catchment, the whole catchment not looking at just one beck and one river and this particular Beck flows into the air, so it's really really important for not just the householders nearby but actually much wider group of householders further downstream in terms of protecting them. Thank you
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:03:58
thank you just due to that point about the increase in flooding as having had long conversations with Network Rail about disruption over the last few months and their feedback to me, was they've seen the most water they have ever seen in the history of their tenure and I suggested that maybe we could be helpful if they identified where,
the banks are popping and then disrupting at the at the network, where the upstream challenges and where we can help him be more of a partner there, so maybe that's something to take away, but Liz.
thanks I don't have much much more to add there's a lot of information
Liz Hunter - 1:04:45
in the paper about it, but again really great to see this type of natural flood risk management coming forward and again a partnership approach between the authorities, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and the Environment Agency, thank you.

8 e) Local Area Energy Plans Project Approvals

Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:05:03
thank you and all happy to see the recommendation to progression, lovely, thank you so, moving on to Item 8 e, the local area energy plans project approvals. Now this details a single scheme recommended to the CFO progression through the assurance process. We all know that if we're going to achieve net 0 target of 2038, we need to understand our energy needs and plan on how they ought to be delivered. We're all aware, I'm sure of examples where projects in the region that are waiting for that energy connection to progress, whether that's to receive energy or whether that's to feed that back to the grid, and I hope that through this vote we're going to have the opportunity to set out our plan and use that to work with network providers and Ofgem also for knowledge, I am writing to the UK IB about how they, too, might want to get involved in this work, so this paper highlights the work going on nationally to change the way that energy systems are planned and how investments are made. The changes proposed proposed aim to establish a more decentralised and decarbonise energy system in in Great Britain, and I recently attended a very interesting roundtable with Ofgem and other mayors and will be working with them to help shape their proposals across the North or I'd like to invite Councillor Scotland as Chair of the climate committed to say a few words and then handover to Liz. Thank you, Mayor, I'm disappointed you
Cllr Jane Scullion (Calderdale Council) - 1:06:28
didn't call the support exciting because local area energy providers are excited encoded on everything very exciting
yes, all depends on which area you happen to be a narrowed or enthusiast in one local area. Energy plans encoded all were slightly ahead of the game in terms of working on our local area energy plan, and actually I really commenced leaders. It is actually quite an interesting thing to see in terms of energy generation and energy use and future need for energy supply and for thinking about growth in our local economy in terms of housing, developments in terms of industry and manufacturing developments, then we really do need to fully understand the ins and outs of the energy system. As I said, we've already done got ahead in Calderdale and worked on that, and the support in front of you is about basically accelerating the other four authorities to come forward so that we're all in step in terms of understanding and our energy needs for the future and the possibilities of as Councillor said
the energy needs energy generation needs of the future for West Yorkshire. Thank you,
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:07:46
thank you so much, and also the challenge if we want to increase more energy delivery here in our region, it has to be able to get onto the grid, and that's why they ebb and flow of that is also a challenge and I also said to Ofgem Ofgem that we are already underway in Calderdale what we don't want is work to come to be par in parallel universe somewhere else and that we need to work really in close partnership with them to.
tell them about our local energy needs so they get a proper oversight of what we are already doing and what we need and our ambitions for our region.
any comments Liz would you like to know, you've both covered it very well, thank you heavily, the comments know fantastic, so can we have?

8 f) Transport Project Approvals

and as we've had, to progress through the assurance process, with approval for the CIA's funding, contribution for delivery and approval of future assurance pathways on routes. And it's all detailed in the papers all good. Thank you so much. Moving on to another approval. Transport project approvals. This is five schemes recommended to the CFO progression through the assurance process and completing the picture for this year on the successful transport capital programme, as we discussed earlier in the agenda, and I'm really pleased as well to see the commitment to progressing new bus station in Heckmondwike it's been needing that for many years that's great to see. So if I could pass to Councillor Hinchcliffe and then to Melanie Cochrane, our director of transport policy and delivery officer, the team had been
Alan Reiss, Chief Operating Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:09:25
busy. I will go through debtors and project and if the projects in detail but Melanie will just pass on staffing
thank you.
Melanie Corcoran - 1:09:33
so the first scheme for consideration today is a Coakley's enhanced EV charging and support programme, a bit of a mouthful but in terms of what it's gonna do to two aspects, firstly, it's to look at on-street charging and to provide the infrastructure for on-street charging in areas of high density terraced housing where there is very little on-street charging available in 2021 Coakley's had 35 public charge points and the the demand forecasts are that they'll need at least 1,400 by 2030 so long way to go, but actually to to start to put this infrastructure in place if it is going to help people to work to make that shift to electric vehicles, the second part of the scheme is to provide a centre of excellence on EV charging and to work with businesses who might want to change their fleets and to give them the opportunity to try before you buy in terms of the vehicles that are available on the market.
so at this stage this is a strategic outline case. We'd like to recommend that work commences on the full business case and we're asking for 89,000 to be released at this stage. The total value of the combined authority funding through C or SDS is 4.6 million, but we're obviously still developing the scheme and what it's going to look
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:11:05
like. Thank you Melanie. Can I just ask Ann Phoenix that getting this money and these schemes for EV charging points I'll be in a position, or is there a need for
those maintenance engineers of these. This explosion in EV charging points, because we are hearing Otway anecdotally that one in three doesn't work when you arrive, and what we need to make sure is that we can potentially see this as creating jobs for young people across our region fill, it said I I've just landed you in there, guy I didn't see it up or anything just something that I've talked to the team about
Felix Kumi-Ampofo, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:11:41
previously. However, I'm laughing doesn't buy myself time to think
we know that we have specific skills shortage vacancies, especially in some of the technical key technical skills areas. So engineering in this area is no surprise and is no different is the same in planning is the same in some of the other key technical area surveyed, some of the flexibilities that we expect to get from some of the adult skills funding that we mentioned in level 4 Deveau should allow us to go into a little bit more detail and be a bit more specific and target some of these areas a bit more. However, we already have a fair amount of flexibility, particularly with set-up
her skills would come earlier on.
I'm with college principals tomorrow, to talk about to have a conversation about how we working with employers to identify some of these early enough, so we can respond, so the team is on their case, we'll just to get a little bit of time, thank you so much and Benue
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:12:41
wanted to just come in on that.
sorry, isn't it a technical point, Melanie Bob just you said 89,000
Ben Still, Chief Executive (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:12:51
pounds as the recommendation, so I'm not sure that's how this, with the putting the final recommendations, so just I'm just playing safe rather than getting the wrong number in the minutes so I'll keep it careful about numbers.
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:13:05
thank you, yeah, you're looking at bringing Councillor Lamb.
Melanie Corcoran - 1:13:08
thank you, I'll try and filibustered to give the Melanie the the time
Cllr Alan Lamb - 1:13:12
to a team player.
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:13:17
so while on the subject of team playing, actually I've been working
Cllr Alan Lamb - 1:13:21
with Councillor Rafique, who is Executive Board member in Leeds on some on-street issues that we've got, and I just wonder if you could comment on how this picks that up because well it's I'm sure my ward is not unique to Leeds and so not to West Yorkshire where the nature of the housing means there's a lot of people who don't have off street parking.
and particularly in areas like my Boston spires particularly example, whereas a lot of people who'd like to go electric, but they're too far from anywhere that public charging infrastructure could be, so we're looking at some innovative options of creating public on-street parking, the little build-outs and things and also exploring easy mechanisms for.
little gullies to be built, so the charging infrastructure can go across public highways and what the protocols are for that, because the the national guidance doesn't really help us at the minute, so I wonder is that included in this or is this purely about public charging but it is a big thing we need to address at a lot of people who would go electric but the inability to get close to a charging point.
is really putting them off, and it's it's it's a way we could have a big win without the cost to the public purse, because there's a lot of the firms, though
willing and ready to put the money in, but we just need to connect them up with the right policies in the local authorities and the Highways departments and the right guidance as well, what role there is for the authority to and for the Combined Authority to help with that across West Yorkshire and hope that I have given a million of time to.
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:14:58
thank you, Councillor Lamb, always helpful, thank you and Melanie yes,
Melanie Corcoran - 1:15:04
sir, so just in terms of that we are refreshing our local transport plan.
and actually significant changes in the Local Transport Plan for this time round, we we if we are going to hit the the carbon targets, then we will have to see a big shift in EV vehicles, also a reduction in in journeys made as well. So we are having policy discussions about how we can work with local authority partners to make sure that we can achieve this. So we are having those discussions about how would that work in practice on the ground who do we need to speak to and get those people together? So it wouldn't directly be part of this project up. There is definitely policy work going on in the background
OK, thank you just in terms of the funding, yes, I I say there are two different to funding amounts in here in the recommendations s in paragraphs 4.3 1 it talks about how some of the funding that was released for development has not fully been spent, so I'll I'll try and check with the team while the meetings on one and come back if it's possible to do so, otherwise we can take it away and just just get that clarified.
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:16:24
thank you be good at just by the end of the meeting, if it's at all possible, if people are receptive, that'd be grand, yes Ben, but just to add to Melody's comments, Councillor and because will you make an excellent point, so we are talking to several of those companies that
Ben Still, Chief Executive (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:16:39
are interested in putting in exactly the kind of
shared or EV community hubs that you're talking about, one of the roles that they have identified that will be helpful for the public sector and the Combined Authority to play is actually rating to the previous approval around local energy plans and having that kind of consistent view as to where wherein the kind of local grid,
our additional energy requirements need because these hubs, particularly for fast-charging hubs, are already high energy usage, and often that doesn't align to the configuration of the current grid, so that kind of consistency of approaches is a role that both links up different aspects of the common authority's work, but I think he's something that is valued by the private sector.

8 g) Leeds 2023 Year of Culture Project Approvals

thank you any further thoughts grades were happy to approve the
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:17:31
Coakley's enhanced electric vehicle, residential charging and sport programme, lovely so Melanie moving onto lead station platform extension, this is another exciting development.

8 f) Transport Project Approvals

Melanie Corcoran - 1:17:47
it is an exciting development so pre COVID Leeds station was the busiest station in the north of England 32 million passengers a year, we are seeing numbers recover, but the forecast in the next 10 years is is another five and a half million passengers and there is congestion within the station both on platforms and on services, and platform 17 at the moment is currently accessed via platform 16, which is probably one of the busiest platforms on the station, which is going to to Huddersfield in Manchester so it it's it's really congested at that part of the station and at the moment platform 17 can only take trains with maximum four carriages
so the proposal is to extend platform 17.
have a separate access to platform 17 so that you don't have to go through a very congested platform to get there and increase the the length of the trains so that they can the platform can take up to six carriages, so that's the proposal we are in development stage so the proposal here is to release funding to continue to do the development work.
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:18:56
thank you, and as somebody that uses that platform, it couldn't be come soon, enough, Councillor Molly, totally welcomed these suggestions, many a time of newly independent arts higher in
Cllr Matthew Morley - 1:19:07
Manchester than getting back to them or to Castleford, so we would just believe this group open legends,
we really appreciate what's happening there, there'll be a massive improvement, the Murray Castle audience on a platform, but this just shows realise what we're doing as a Combined Authority to improve the network on bus and rail but the services we rail need to step up on this one because once again we're seeing carriage reductions on the main Doncaster to Leeds line that were seen with Northern that are taking carriages from Wakefield massively over capacity already so they do not step up and Stockport is more and more with their services.
Councillor Murray,

8 g) Leeds 2023 Year of Culture Project Approvals

8 f) Transport Project Approvals

Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:19:52
any further comments were all happy to recommend the Leeds station platform extension through to progression to the assurance process, great stuff and next to the A 6 6 0 Lawnswood roundabout to mentally
Melanie Corcoran - 1:20:09
yeah, thank you, man, so the Essex 60 Otley Road and the Ring Road roundabout in Leeds, it is the Lawnswood roundabout so the junction is recognised as being a collision hotspot, particularly for cyclists. The scheme is looking to improve the safety by introducing signalisation at a very, very busy junction and provide signaled crossings for for cyclists and people who want to walk and we'll
and though it will also use technology that will prioritise buses and at the moment there are delays for all traffic on that route, but it particularly affects the reliability of the buses, so we'd be looking to improve that as well.
so at the moment this is is presented to us as an outline business case, we want to move to full business case, the turtle scheme cost is just over 13 million, the Combined Authority contribution is 12.3 7 3 4 7 9, and the funding that sought at this stage is to release a 964,004 8 4 to take us to the full business case stage. Thank you
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:21:20
comments yes, Councillor Lamb,
Cllr Alan Lamb - 1:21:25
thank you ma am they're interested, I am not convinced about this one, I'll take it up with officers in Leigh, travelling ticket all the time here, but I wouldn't feel comfortable supporting what's being put forward, I'm sure that's not going to change anything but just for the record it's not something I feel I can support thank you, Councillor
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:21:43
Lamb and others happy to approve.
yes, thank you moving on to Dawson's Corner.
Melanie Corcoran - 1:21:51
yes, thank you ma, so Dawson's Corner is a junction in Pudsey, that is 5 kilometres east of Bradford city centre and 10 kilometres west of Leeds city centre, so that gives you some idea of where it is large junction with a for a forearm roundabout and at Leeds City Council have been successful in securing major route network funding from D F T to fund Stanley bypass and some improvements to this junction, so we are using some of our corridor improvement programme funding which comes from the West Yorkshire Transport plus.
and that is a fund and that is being topped up by the D F T funding.
it takes the total value of the scheme up to 50 51.9 million. Our funding through the corridor improvement programme is 8.4 8 million and we're looking at Inc well. This is a change request to increase that total scheme to bring both of the schemes together because they'll be designed together at the same time with the same team. So the funding recommended at the moment is 1.4 9 3 million to continue with that development work and full business case. We, which should get to full business case with that and we'll extend the scheme's delivery time for them to December 25 by bringing both of the elements together. Thank you any comments
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:23:15
no, thank you happy to approve Dawson's Corner dislike sound like soap opera, doesn't it?
okay, heaven right bus station, thank you for for that.
Melanie Corcoran - 1:23:29
very exciting scheme. Currently, there are 35 buses per hour that go to an existing traffic island, so we are creating a new bus station building improved facilities for passengers, there'll be real-time passenger information, they'll be changing places facilities, they'll be public toilets and outside there will be cycled facilities, enhanced access to the bus station and
facilities for the bus operators as well for their drivers were also increasing, bus stands from 4 to 6 and will be a layover lane as well, so delighted to be able to bring this one forward after much development work, and it's it's proposed to be funded out of the the transforming cities fund.
total scheme value is 8.6 6 1 5 2 million and where recommending that we now move this scheme into delivery and released that funding, thank
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:24:30
you so much, and this is also a bit of an road safety hotspot, and I'm really pleased that we'll be able to address some of those challenges and slow down the traffic as well and unfortunately too many people have lost their lives at the just by the park there and with my commitment to vision 0,
the 0 deaths and serious injuries in on the roads of West Yorkshire I'm hoping that we can have interventions.
at that roundabout or at that area, with the park and with the new bus station that will reduce the serious injuries and deaths on that spot, so thank you for that, I am happy to approve

8 g) Leeds 2023 Year of Culture Project Approvals

grits. Thank you moving on, I am aware of time that we've had an awful lot to get through, so let's keep going and we're moving on to Leeds 2023 a year of culture project approvals. This is some additional support offering to Leeds 2023 to enable successful delivery of the projects. We've already supported and hasn't it been an incredible year and congratulations to Leeds and the team and they delivered on the promises that they made to all of us and we've had one really exciting year, not just in Leeds city centre but every ward across Leeds, and there'd been entertaining beguiling and
and delivering for the people across the city for the last 12 months, so if I can pass over to Felix for more details.
Felix Kumi-Ampofo, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:26:03
thank you for the guidance, very good word for.
I think there are essentially two things happening in this paper, I won't go through every detail, we don't have a lot of time, the first is, were the most just talked about Leeds, 2023 is coming to an end and this request here which has come through the usual process to enable our support or at least 2023 to come to a successful conclusion. The second is that a Combined Authority
West Yorkshire was successfully securing 5 over 500,000 pounds from central government from something called the creates growth programme that allows us to reshape and expand the scope of that. You can make it to your programme which the this Board has already approved, so the changes we've made have gone through the change request process and there is an opportunity here now for the board to approve that so we can do more even more than we were initially going to. Thank you very
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:27:07
much, thank you, everyone happy to approve, thank you so much and please do not miss out on the end of Bradford or Leeds golf as a Freudian slip.

9 West Yorkshire Business Board (LEP)

Leeds 2023, because it is going to be amazing and congratulations to Colley as well for her new role up in Scotland as she leaves our region, so moving on to Item 9 West Yorkshire business board very sad that Mandy Ridgard can't be here to talk about her new role.
but this paper focuses on the transition of the LEP into the West Yorkshire business board and how the CA will be refreshing how it engages with the private sector across the whole of our region I bow, I must say that having Monday with me on the trade mission to North America was of incredible value and her experience in not only,
starting an SMA, but scaling up and SMA in the world of aerospace and
in relation to her role as a chair of the space hub, Yorkshire was invaluable and I know that every meeting we went to was enhanced by her experience so of to Phoenix.
Felix Kumi-Ampofo, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:28:24
thank you very much move this paper, Gil tries to socially do a couple of things, one to update the Board on where we are in the development of a business board and the wider business engagement activity, and secondly, to seek approval on a couple of proposals on the proposals the board had it's the business but had his first meeting last week and agreed to 1 a name change or new name.
that it will be referred to us, the West Yorkshire.
that will be referred to as the West Yorkshire business board, I think that music there was just some hailed a new name.
for for for Algeria
actually.
and that will be kept out of the law.
secondly, that the board again agreed that board members will hold specific portfolios, but these will be, or this will be, worked through in due course, depending on the need at the time there are few other.
things set out in the paper, I think, a key want to bring our attention to a section 2.6 where we say
board will be referred to as the social business board, however the legislation and the legal orders in place referred to the LEP so where we are talking about some really specific legal matters that name the LEP will continue to crop up from time to time until that is sorted, Caroline is here if anybody wants a bit more detail on the legal stuff is completely above my head.
but essentially that that's what the paper sets out, the rest of the paper sets out the names of the business board, and then it gives us a sense of further work that we're doing to widening our engagement and strengthen our engagement with the private sector. So we've talked about a new mayor or council, the name of it might change in due course but essentially is another opportunity to have platform that we want to pull together to be able to engage with some of our key large businesses with whom we do not have a consistent and strong relationship with doing a bit more work.
developing a framework for business engagement which will shine a bit more light on how we can work with small businesses, micro businesses, some of the third sector as well, so in due course we will come back to to the board, to update you and hopefully seek your approval on the work that is unfolding there.

10 Committee Governance and Membership

Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:31:02
thank you so much Phoenix any comments, no thank you said the C A is happy to approve the proposed changes to the LEP and current business board Super moving on to Item 10 Committee, governance and membership.
this is brought to Members to consider matters relating to governance, appointments and voting rights, can I hand over to Caroline Alan to talk us through this.
Felix Kumi-Ampofo, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:31:25
yes, thank you, thank you ma am.
the there's there's quite a scary number of recommendations in here, but actually
Caroline Allen, Deputy Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:31:36
that they're not scary in terms of context. Just number the first ones flow from the report that we've just had previously. In terms of the point first, one is to note the appointment of the Mayor's business advisor at Mandy Rickyard, who is also Chair of the West Yorkshire business board. But the second recommendation is then for the CA, if it's a matter for the CA to formally appoint the LEP Member and the substitute onto the CA itself, so this recommendation is seeking approval to appoint Mandy Ridyard as the LEP Member and also asthma Iqbal as a substitute onto the CA. So that is that's what it becomes, then or a formal appointment
moving on from that.
the recommendations also look to appoint deputy chairs were seeking, we had a number of vacancies of Deputy chairs on our thematic committees because our Deputy Chair appointments are taken from the LEP board, so we've had a bit of a there's been a sequencing in terms of appointments, of new members, to the LEP board and then quite a tight turnaround to sort of to then have the discussions with Members overall in terms of those deputy chair ships, there's one recommendation here at present in terms of Deputy Chair to the business economy and innovation committee, we recognise that the climate, energy and environment committee in place, Regeneration and Housing Committee are still without deputy chairs, and so
we appreciate that that is an issue I think officers will continue to have those discussions with let board members in terms of that one, and we'd sought arrangements for nomination so that the LEP, the business advisory board chair, can make nominations to the CA, but it does mean any formal appointments will,
to
although we could look to put some interim arrangements in place if we had nominations in terms of observer attendance, it shares agreement, so I think there's something we can do to to soften that should we.
ch as wet as and when names come forward.
the third thing the report does is proposes an appointment of the independent member to the finance resources and corporate committee Members will remember them at the October CA meeting them, the CA agreed that we should go out and seek an independent member that has happened super-quick and we've been successful and the the report talks about the process we've gone through an open recruitment process.
and there is a candidate and put forward here you'll see at 10.00.5 and the recommendations proposing that Jocelyn Manors, Armstrong is appointed onto the onto f or CC for a term of three years, so we're hoping that the CA is happy to agree that the following recommendation we agreed the CA agreed a level of remuneration for that independent member at its last meeting at a rate of 250 pounds a day.
on the basis of four days a year which is of committee days
I suppose on on reflection, it's been felt that actually for that member to be brought up to speed and have this appropriate briefing and understanding of the arrangements, the budget and the organisation, we would want them to participate from more than those four days so you'll see at 10.00.6 we are now and proposing that that is extended to 10 days
at a total cost of two and a half thousand
the recommendations that follow from that from 10.7 to 10.10 and relate to them, seeking confirmation for voting rights for the LEP Member and substitute went when leaves attending any meeting of the CA.
subject to the exceptions there at 10.00.7 that budget and levy and the Local Transport Plan that is consistent with our approach, that we've taken in previous years, and also that the co opted deputy chairs have voting rights and the Independent Member on FSC equally has those voting rights.
finally to to furthest slightly additional points that the report covers 10 11 and paragraph 2 18 of the report sets out some changes from nominations onto our committees from partner councils, which have been exercised under my delegated authority, and then one that was here timely for the CA in terms of Coakley's Council and for the CA to approve finally at 10.00.13 minor tweak to the Members' Code of Conduct which is only updating and clarification in terms of naming but because it's the Members' Code of Conduct it needs to compare so was seeking approval for that as well. Thank you Mayor, thank you.
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:36:14
any comments on any of those changes, yes, Councillor Angela, just
Felix Kumi-Ampofo, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:36:20
technical thing, really with the difference in an unlockable in the
Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe (Bradford Council) - 1:36:26
amount that they're getting submarine research, we've got very good candidate, who's so, I'm not quibbling just wondering, just after go to the R P or is it all right for us to set it as submitted?
Felix Kumi-Ampofo, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:36:35
it is OK for the for the committee to set a test.

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8 f) Transport Project Approvals

Caroline Allen, Deputy Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:36:40
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:36:44
Good stuff all happy to agree all of those recommendations, great thank you so much, so, moving on to before we go to the next minutes of information, I'm gonna come back to Melanie, do we have our road
Felix Kumi-Ampofo, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:36:58
number? Yes, yes, I do, thank you ma so just just to go back to Item 8 F
and it was the Carclaze EV scheme, so the recommendations as set out in paragraph 4.4 5 requesting an additional 7,000 are correct, the
Melanie Corcoran - 1:37:15
recommendations section is as set out, unfortunately there was a wrong figure that was put in the summary table of 89,000, which is, I believe, what was spent to date and actually the the recommendations are asking for another 7,000 to be released to take the development cost to 117,000 so apologies for that misunderstanding, thank you and
Mayor Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:37:39
thank you to the team for reacting so swiftly.

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remotely, so, thank you, and just finally admits for information they're all attached, and can I thank everybody for your attendance, it means a great deal that you take the time to attend the board and also the date of the next meeting, the 1st of February.
thank you all so much for coming and Merry Christmas and a happy new
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year, thank you.
Liz Hunter
Director, Policing, Environment & Place
West Yorkshire Combined Authority
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