Climate, Energy and Environment Committee - Tuesday 30 July 2024, 2:00pm - West Yorkshire Combined Authority Webcasting

Climate, Energy and Environment Committee
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1 Apologies for Absence

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Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:00:09
OK everyone, thank you for the can hear me, thank you for coming hits a day when we should all be sat in a park or something I appreciate you coming for.
this meeting of the climate energy environment committee, I'm sitting info, Councillor Scully, and he was currently on leave and hopefully will be back in this chair fit and well next time round. Just very briefly, do we have any apologies for absence
apologies for absence had been received from Councillor Jane Scullion,
Adam Hunt, Committee Services Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:00:42
Councillor Cheney, Cannes Jayne Atkinson Richard good, our correct dot in-house and Jimmy capital.

2 Declaration of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests

OK, thank you very much and.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:00:57
just item number 2, which is declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests in just to ask Members to highlight any declarations of interest either now or as and when they come up, and that might be if your organisation is involved in supporting the funding go, you know the drill anyway,

3 Exempt Information - Possible Exclusion of the Press and Public

item number 3 is exempt information, possible exclusion of the press and public can I understand there are no items on the agenda sure very quickly just go around the room, say there's probably a couple of phases.
autonomy, hidden my name's Councillor Scott, patient and deputy leader of Calderdale counselling, him occupying the Chair on this occasion I move in that direction, Alison Gillesbie, ahead of place and environment policy at the West Yorkshire Combined Authority Adam hung Committee support.
John Clarke, I'm a private sector representative and our work for Cummings.
John Clark (Private Sector Representative) - 0:01:45
overall, my name's at a marshmallow worked for Yorkshire Water and I
Adam Ashman, Advisory Representative (Yorkshire Water) - 0:01:51
am an advisory representative.
hello, I'm Martin, broadest our with connect Housing, I'm here on behalf of the West Yorkshire Housing Partnership, which is the group of major housing associations and local authority housing providers working across West Yorkshire.
hello, everyone, Anthony Cook and the West Yorkshire flood risk
Jenny Cooke, Advisory Representative (Environment Agency) - 0:02:09
manager, but representative from the Environment Agency, barking happen.
hello, I'm getting Richardson with private September.
Jenny Cooke, Advisory Representative (Environment Agency) - 0:02:18
I haven't got a consultancy company in sustainability consultant with obesity.
Oluwafemi Omoniyi (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:02:28
Everyone them, Sophie Brook, Amy programme, development, lead worked on the Home energy West Yorkshire programme at West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
Oluwafemi Omoniyi (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:02:38
I everyone I am firmly on one of the programme development lead at be image made through I'm emerged semi at the Combined Authority.
hi I'm presented a bit Davis and policy manager in transport
Roseanna Brett-Davis - 0:02:48
decarbonisation at the Combined Authority.
Jo Barham Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:02:54
hi I'm Dr Balmer, who is managing the economy, skills and coaching out for the Combined Authority.
Guilherme Rodrigues Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:03:02
I get Rodriguez part of Research and intelligence economic analysis.
hi Peter Glover, also from the research team and the Combined Authority.
I'm Councillor, Barry Anderson, from Leeds on the street each year for WYCA.
Cllr Katie Dye (Leeds City Council) - 0:03:20
I everybody armed Councillor catered, I also from Leeds and I chair, at climate emergency Advisory Committee.
Good afternoon and Councillor Sarah referral about and the portfolio
Cllr Sarah Ferribly (Bradford Council) - 0:03:29
holder for Health people and places from Bradford Council.
afternoon everyone Councillor Jack Hemingway on, to tweet away from Councillor.
Cllr Jack Hemingway (Wakefield Council) - 0:03:36
and then everyone say Listen to and directs with policing, placing event mentality.

4 Minutes of the Meeting held on 28 May 2024

Liz Hunter, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:03:44
OK, thank you, and you are very welcome and clearly season prowess in
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:03:48
terms of microphone execute so full marks to you all on that one okay. Moving on to item number 4, which is the meeting minutes of the meeting held back on the 13th of February 2024, which was a very different place, I think we should such on later, so can I move to you Les, to speak on it? Thank you just wanted to pick up some of the actions and from the last meeting before we approve the minutes, so
Liz Hunter, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:04:16
the few things to mention which have been trained, so you asked his for a site visit around the better homes up now, renamed how many of us Yorkshire levy is received from the papers. This is that's to come, so we haven't done that yet because I think we thought about it is about the appropriate time for you to actually see something on-site, so we haven't lost track of that is just on the action list. You also asked for reports about the skills around The Green Dr Haringey West Yorkshire reports being produced and will share that when it's ready,
you also asked for some information about the publicity around home energy which we sent an e-mail about, so hopefully you have seen that and hopefully you'll also seen that now the publicity have started around some of the products which will pick up in Sophie paper later and within that e-mail we also talk to you about the solar for schools and gave me a bit more information on the decisions around that so hopefully that answered your questions, we talked about green skills and you ask for a paper that's on the agenda at item 10, and you also asked for information about the strategic climate in violent partnership that as an item 13 also in relation to the skills audit that you completed a few months ago where we asked you the types of training that you might want to have at the end of this meeting.
when the former meetings over there is a session on the assurance framework and how we make decisions, so we'll make we've made hopefully time over time and landlords within the within the timing of this meeting, to have the training at the end of the at the end of this session on that so hopefully that addresses all the actions in the paper and hopefully the minutes were accurate.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:05:56
thank you out in our government if anyone's got any other points, but hopefully you can see from the track about the most of those are being picked up elsewhere or just with regards to the workshop at the end of it could compel Members and we all do like to have ourselves had but try and be brief so it can maximise that sort of offline session make it work well but yet still obviously wanting route description so and anything from any one of those
no.

5 Chair's Update

Ok, perfect, so number 5 is the Chair's update.
so obviously I'm fundamental change from last time is the results of the general election double-room, not gonna get to?
you know hand way he political about things, but clearly there are few things which may affect and change some of the work that we can do Haroun and national, obviously in terms of Great British energy, some of the work happening around our waterways and you know tertiary rivers and spaces by Steve Reid and company, it probably gonna be something to watch out for and keep an eye on and we know about the commitment to Net Zero is something that's gonna continue over from the last government but,
perhaps, hopefully with a bit more renewed vigour, I guess we know as well we we've had some of the initial announcements around devolution and deeper devolution, some of the trailblazer packages will know Tracy Brabin armour here is the Chair of the Chair of the metro mayors in the UK which linked to as a great place for us to be in terms of affecting that agenda broadly beyond West Yorkshire.
but I think what that looks like, yet we still don't have full clarity on.
and we need to make sure, as climate groups that were, there were clear about what we want for that, and it's good that we have, I think, some structural like architecture in place in terms of our plans in the Net Zero Plan and the refresh of the Environment Plan as well coming down the line to make sure that we're able to do that, obviously our sway 38 target is significantly more ambitious with the current 2050 target as well, and that's something we shouldn't forget.
but I don't know if the sort of anything more on the devolution stuff that might happen West Yorkshire is that you want to pick up on and
Liz Hunter, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:08:19
thanks, so then the marriage, having a series of meetings with ministers and, as you'd expect, I think as we sit here now this this this conversations and announcements to be made about planning and so I think across all of the agendas,
most of them do relate in some way back to what we want to do around climate and and sustainability, so housing the planning but that we've already seen safe.
it's helpful to hospital to have, as you said, the mob involved in those conversations and will report back to the Committee as and when we can we, we know what further role the Combined Authority and local authorities will will have formed from government yeah obvious with matters a Combined Authority as well since then back on the 25th of
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:09:00
July and some of them I guess around what the broad outlines are around our key offer.
some of the capital portfolio and how that works, saw a lot of lovely climate based capital projects being passed, including some lovely wants to Wakefield, but not exclusively so.
wi, which is good, and also some thinking around the assurance framework and some of the approvals on some of those changes as well. They were going to see what those implications looked like track out across our Committee. Transport, homes and economy, and lots of making passes. As list said, this, a planning and housing mix the all G brief in later today, based on some of the things that are passing through the comments today as well, to keep our eye out that are all going to play into what we think so don't know if anyone's got any brief comments to make on that kind of Chair's report. Up, shall we move on

6 Governance Arrangements

OK, stunned silence, to like moving on to item 6, then, which is around the governance arrangements, just to let us know what some of the changes have been proposed, so Liz, can I move to or not?
thank you try, so this is the usual governance paper that for those of
Liz Hunter, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:10:14
you that but you can see a while now will recognise because we've had the Combined Authority, a GM in June is pretty much similar to to to previous in terms of what we're looking for for the terms of reference for this group so hopefully that is,
familiar to you and you are accepting of the terms of reference for what this committee is trying to do so fairly, straightforward Chair but happy to take any questions.
yeah and obviously members of the Committee might be, I am happy to no
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:10:43
one to verify the scheduling of some of the informal meeting, so although there are less of the former one scheduled, where we've got cameras in our faces quite a lot of opportunity for us to do some deep dives offline in terms of the work that we need to do but happy to take any questions on that from the floor,

7 Monitoring Indicators

no, while you are, you are quite lot as the height affecting us clearly.
okay, fine, moving on, please bear with me for a moment well management papers and I think Item number 7 is pizza and around the monitoring indicators, so is it OK for Ashley twitchy sites and pizza?
thank you Chair, so the purpose of this paper is primarily for information and to inform the Committee's discussions or ranking themes within its remit, and the background is that we update the
Peter Glover, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:11:41
Committee on the headline headline monitoring indicators as new data becomes available, so our main focus today will be on the latest emissions data for West Yorkshire.
plus a brief overview registrations data for low emission vehicles, and that lack today to set it has been highlighted a number of times by the Committee as being of interest, so that's why we featured it, I'm going to provide a brief introduction and I am going to hand over to my colleague G.
to give more detail, particularly around the emissions data, and we have a few well if she slides in terms of the headline results.
I'm focusing on omissions, first of all, the official statistics for the 2022 emissions at local level were published at the end of June.
and the analysis is set out in the paper, so from page 21 onwards, and there's an appendix on page 29 onwards, and just to clarify the emissions data we're talking about are reporting on relate to carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, so that's what we're referring to when we talk about greenhouse gases in this context but at flu-related cases are not included in the Local emissions data and the measure that we're using a CO2 equivalent units.
within which each of the gases is way to by global warming potential relative to global carbon dioxide, so just clarify those points, in 2022 there were total greenhouse gas emissions of nearly 10,500 kilotons, CO2 equivalent in West Yorkshire and the key messages.
the as expected overall greenhouse gas emissions filed in 2022 and the more of more than offset the increase in 20 that we saw in 2021 so emissions fell by sample point 4%, compared with the previous year.
with 3.5% lower than in 2020, which was the previous lowest point.
in comparison with 2019 there were 13.9% 0 so 13.9% lower than pre pandemic, and we've seen a faster rate of reduction in the UK average year on year, and also over the period from 2019 2022 on Page 34 Page 34 of your pack there was a childhood plots West Yorkshire emissions,
trend against the existing carbon emissions reductions pathways and represented that ensnare slide here, just to clarify the pathways in the chart and those defined in 2021 in the in this of current study, they're not the forthcoming replacements pathways which are currently under development.
so the reduction in 2022 returned emissions somewhere between the three reduction pathways and close to the maximum ambition scenario in 2021 report, and as we note in the paper, if there were, if that reduction that we've seen in 2022 is partly due to the energy price shock in 22 2022 than we might expect some of the effect away as prices normalise, so now they through continued to remain at normal levels, but I think in terms of messaging is important not to allow the emissions reduction we've seen for a single year to distract from the continuing challenge of achieving net 0 by 2038 and I'm going to hand over to key to provide some more detail.
Guilherme Rodrigues Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:15:15
so thank you to all give some more details on the carbon emission related data that we have in the paper.
so on a per capita basis, we can see it at carbon emissions.
performed relatively in line with what my colleague Peter described, so there was a decline that offsets, the 2021 or increase, we also see that carbon emissions felt stronger, fell stronger in West Yorkshire, then the national average.
both when you compare with the previous year or when we compare back to 22 any.
2020,
our carbon emissions on total are lower.
slightly lower than the ones at the UK average.
when we look at the sources and the reasons why are our emissions are lower than the national average, it is mostly about agriculture and waste, as you can see in this figure, the remaining ones that make broader up so domestic emissions, public sector transport,
are more or less in lie on.
the district level out of the 5 districts are all of them except Wakefield as lower emissions than the national average, and we've seen declines for Kevin all of them.
Wakefield the one with our emissions was the one with the smallest decline, but still 6% minus 6% on here to your basis, so when we look at the broad sectors over time to understand the performance and the reductions and and which give us all the I'll get more information as well to understand the carbon reduction,
pathways we see that in 2022 domestic and public sector emissions were the one that felt the most, and because those are are the ones that follow most, and we know there was a breast shock, as Peter said, and weather conditions were not that bedding 2020 to or it may be one of the reasons why we we've seen such decline and transport had a very strong declining 2020 as expected with the pandemic but since then has been very stable which highlights the challenges of decarbonising transport.
in the years ahead.
excellent are as old, as I said before, our emissions per capita below the national average, but when you do.
carbon emissions intensity, like all much it costs our GPs to be produced on Carwyn equivalent units, we are slightly above the national average.
but converging, and we have our housing stock, an industrial structure is part of the reason why our carbon intensity is either.
or I think that's all on transport, so I have some information on register vehicles by fuel type, so we have aggregated hybrid and electric vehicles all combined to be easier to read and in 2023 registrations in West Yorkshire.
of new vehicles were around half of them within those classification, so there's the variability between Labour than electric, and it is above the nationally UK ever just 41%.
when we look at the district level, we do see a lot of differences between the districts.
is that why Leeds being much higher than 50% and growing while Wakefield, on the other end?
below 30% and declining.
this has a lot to do with the composition of the vehicles in each area, so we know that nationally and in West Yorkshire light goods vehicles are less likely to be either hybrid or electric and they are, they are outweighs in Wakefield, so when we compare just got the picture between local authority looks much similar.
and one of the reasons why Leeds perform so I as to do with commercial cars, so the the share of commercial cars that are algorithm realised work is much larger than the ones, both for personal purposes and when we control for.
cars that are private cars, all these tricks before more or less in line with each other and very close to the national average as well, so we should take into consideration these differences, but thinking to, but also thinking took out that they are not exactly comparing the same thing as the car fleet change from one place to the author, I think that's OK, thank you.
OK, that's that's really helpful with some, I guess, mixed messages in
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:20:19
different different places that are dependent on, so what you look cannot interest in the bits about agriculture and stuff as well, like some some bits drill into the
and I think the stuff an eaves maybe maybe be helpful to pick outside to see what the difference between hybrid and for Levy adoption is within.
and St COVID Elson early adopter bet my bottom dollar, that's Hebden Bridge, like absolutely feminine from Dover, but is there anyone else on on her their wants to speak again, I think you've got your hand up then Adam then Jack,
that's very chivalrous Adam oversee.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:20:58
Adam Ashman, Advisory Representative (Yorkshire Water) - 0:21:04
thank you, yeah, just looking at the information, packs are really good, real, good data to say what can get is a sense of the projected impact of all of the initiatives that we talk about to do, is there a forecast from each of the initiatives that will talk about today and we've talked about of a previous meetings,
and how do they contribute to our decarbonisation pathway, whether it's domestic or industrial, I'm just interested to get a sense of where we forecast will be on that journey.
yeah this.
Liz Hunter, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:21:40
so I see that right and looking at the cabin pathway work, and we, one of the the workshops that Councillor patient mentioned that we'd like to have with you in, can rarely alter Mr go through that work, so we have been looking at what assumptions would need to happen to to to reach that 2038 and what the forecast basically are therefore, so if you can kind of wait until until that workshop will be will be bringing forward those those assumptions are less than two months ahead of him.
further, it's another involved that's where we're up to the work that you are very much wanting to understand that this is fine, this is look back for Watson, look forward to complete husband.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:22:26
let's yet flexible opinion that was and bedtime, but we're away because we want to see action on my career.
Sophie Brook (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:22:36
thanks for that, I just wanted to to first to think about the transition to electric vehicles and the use of home electricity, florid.
and so what we could see is a bigger rise in domestic energy and a small rise in transport, from up from the Carl side of it, in particular cure, snow and him, and I think it's important we understand what those differences are gonna be going forward because,
most most people, the majority, can actually charge at home, it's cheaper to charge at home, it's also you know on off peak times typically, and if we can understand some of those things, that would be very helpful in terms of projections and what we think we should be doing and then the other part to that which is is on home energy is heat pumps and things like that and how battle it's going to ramp up and I think it would be useful to understand swamp.
OK, thanks, goodbye, maybe collect these at the Jack.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:23:40
yeah, thank you just want to pick up on a few of the the wistful specific points. Obviously, on a few of the metrics it looks like
Cllr Jack Hemingway (Wakefield Council) - 0:23:47
Wakefield is lagging behind at a West Yorkshire and just in terms of the emissions per capital me, so we do of certain areas of heavy industry still in the wet from this year which present unique challenges, but I just wanted to say as well that we are working very well and very closely with those industries they are fully on board with needing to be more sustainable and green, so some good work is taking place that obviously it will take some time to to not round, but just in terms of the ivy
figures and charges, obviously with was doing quite well with charges, but I'm I'm concerned to see the adoption and demand for AP vehicles dropping off, so really just wondering and an appeal to the commodifies we can do a bit of a deep dive around that and see if there's anything more that we as an authority on the Combined Authority can be doing to support the market and ensure that people are looking and it is easy for people to look at switching to even in the Wakefield district.
thanks
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:24:39
what few more hands going up, then what not to do you want to come in?
they are kind of similar public objector said really, it seems to me
Martyn Broadest, Advisory Representative (West Yorks Housing Partnership) - 0:24:44
that if these are, if we're counting here.
locally,
locally grown emissions, if you like, we could be in a perverse incentive in perverse situation where.
I, heavy industry across the border, in Barnsley, for example, employees, lots of people from from Wakefield District, but actually we don't and and the benefits of whatever that happen happens across the border benefit West Yorkshire.
but all the emissions accounted in South Yorkshire, similarly, you know, I'm guessing none of this picks up.
you know offshoring manufacturing and other things in other countries which, which is gonna be an increasing proportion of our collective emissions, real emissions, as as our own homegrown emissions, reduce the proportion of imported emissions is is only going to increase, so I think whilst yes we want to have we want to celebrate the successes and then we also need to bear in mind that,
yeah, emissions don't know no boundaries today.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:25:56
and and and and that's resisted the temptation to self-flagellate too much. We have all got crosses to bear on some of these metrics. You know, lies with its access to green spaces us with our energy efficiency and called the Edale Unit. Hopefully this is an idea to gap. A gap analyse where we can pick up some of that. You know some of that thinking and do the to do the necessary work to
try and fill those gaps getting yeah, just just maybe for Jacques
Sophie Brook (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:26:20
benefit they, the whole of the industry, has come down in terms of the the take-up at the moment and we're looking at that, so it's not just Whitfield
the whole of the UK is and globally is actually going down a bit, so that's that one may be, though, in terms of what Martin has said, we need to start thinking about scope, what scope to scope 3 emissions
in a more detailed way, and that way will get get to understand them a bit better, and also I'm doing a lot of work at the moment on environmental social governance.
and that is the with the disclosure that are happening with that you
Gideon Richards (Private Sector Representative) - 0:27:03
know, that is all three scopes, and it is also looking at the whole supply chain and the value chain, so maybe there's something we could do to support and help organisations look at that across the piece then and that may be will will,
saved from offshoring at all or you know maybe we do need to get everyone out, move all the business out and just have people no, I don't mean,
steady are.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:27:33
Canonica trifecta invoices, though coming up with perhaps an interest in agenda item for an offline session at some point, as we think towards that, I'm gonna bring Jonathan and then I'm going to wrap this site and work with officers, yet just just a quick question really on the on the data on levy is a database them, whether vehicles first
John Clark (Private Sector Representative) - 0:27:49
registered in a particular area or where it what worries currently housed. I asked that question, based on my own experience of
my electric cab who is registered in Newcastle is not registered in any of these regions, but obviously user in a in a Olivia lanes are working cleats so it.
it'd be useful to maybe just clarify how the data is collected, because it might mean that actually the number of electric revising Wakefield he's not as low as reported.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:28:32
OK, I've got everyone all excited, welcome to OK yeah over 2 Peter engaged to pick those or wrap up please, yeah, so in terms of the impact on domestic energy of charge levy, that's something we can look in to see if there any studies have been done on that.
in terms of Wakefield and the sort of high per capita emissions, many important caveat is that not all of the emissions are included in that ratio is directly related to the population, so, as you mentioned, the heavy industry is the defining factor for Wakefield along with another
Peter Glover, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:29:09
a number of low in a high emission local authorities.
in terms of, and that also applies to the point about the territorial emissions, so that this is a limitation of looking at emissions data at a local level in terms of the offshoring point, so that's correct.
goods produced in West Yorkshire and then exported will be included in the figures because it produced and an end user basis. The imported goods would not be captured, they aren't. The only element that isn't on an end use basis is a sort of energy. Original energy generation which is distributed across local authorities sought proportionate with the how it's used in terms of the scope 2 and 3 aspect. I think Sepp is looking at that, so I won't comment on on that. Further.
and then in terms of the data, whether on the vehicle registrations, if I think that's where the first registered yeah, so you right there could be issues there in terms of its are then shipped down to another dealership on something it could give you would you would want it now I don't know whether the different flows would offset each other all not terms you don't get a choice of where he's refused again.
OK, I can see Rosanna that equally.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:30:27
to answer is a no national issue, we visit fleet registrations and
Roseanna Brett-Davis - 0:30:33
lies, vehicles are registered outside of where their use is certainly not trying to become with the data sources, but they're not yet there yet, so we're working with other partners to try and overcome those of shade.
brilliant OK, well, thank you, I think we've been asked to note this,
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:30:48
but thank you so much to officers for folk for Woking is up is really helpful and hopefully bit of food for thought there in terms of developing some of the items will appreciate your work hunky.

8 Programme Priorities

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:31:01
OK, moving on to item number 8, which is Alison, who is going to be talking to us about the programme priorities?
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:31:12
he was sharing my excess out in this is the first climate committee of
Allison Gillespie (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:31:19
the year, so following the Combined Authority 80 m, in June, service paper really is just to set the priorities for the year ahead.
and to give you an overview of the programme of activity which the Committee's goats believing and steering gone, I'll give you the opportunity to two comments on that, so we've already mentioned we've moved to a frequency of three formal public Committees across the year, but we are also proposing a number of private in formal committees and we have the option to add those into the programme as as we move forward.
and those will just allow us to have a deeper dive into some of the key topics and whether some can have early policy and programme development activity that we'd like.
to be able to influence so the papers pretty high level, it talks about the core areas of activity for the Committee, those are on page 56 in the pack, so close to the carbon pathways and climate and environment plan work which we've already mentioned today residential retro fit nature Recovery, energy, climate resilient and flood Flood Risk Management, private sector partnerships transport DCA a decarbonisation which is,
shared oversight of that with the transport committee and then skills and business support also shared with the business economy and innovation committee, so those are the kind of headline topics the report also sets out proposed timings of meat things in the topics that will come forward across the sequence in the year and then we're proposing that there's only one private session listed there at the moment in that way.
hoping to time for October and that one will be a to Pat agenda focused on other connects recovery strategy and McCubbin pathways, evidence and scope of the of the refreshed climate plan, but the other topics you should their listed across the the meeting so you'll see some progression between the the the
public meetings and be able to to influence that activity, so his satisfied depended, I'm not gonna talk you through those there are officers around the table that lead on some of the areas of activity that those covers, if you have questions of on those, please do ask and then also pleased to flag if you think there are topics missing all their areas of expertise that you would like them to bring something additional on.
but then I was just going to say two things on the on the on the specific, so I'm a carbon pathways, work
the timing of the public Committees didn't allow enough opportunities for you to see that because we weren't ready to bring you the the kind of pathways worked to this meet, thinks that that's why we've scheduled the private session to allow you to have a look at that and then we'll bring it again to the November session as well, so just to note that that's why that's proposed,
and then on residential retrofit just also to note that adjustments needles being appointed in a new role as head of service for our newly named home energy, West, Yorkshire activity, and so that's great that Jess will now be able to drive forward that work and face and takes on that team, and we've secrets an update on residential retrofit in every session because we're expecting there will be significant progress across this year and Jessop be able to attend the next meeting, but also Sufi's gonna covering update today later on the agenda. So that's what I was going to say. I'll stop there but happy to take any any questions on the on the on the topics as listed
thank you, awesome forgot and our officers have noticed a bit of
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:34:52
duplication in in in some of the some of the meetings, but it may be that some because there's a sequence in around reporting on the various different aspects of it I'm seeing nuts yeah, so that's right so so we did have some more detail in their originally which sort of
Allison Gillespie (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:35:06
gave some indication of what you would see at each meeting through, for example, in the exemplar residential retrofits than the next session. We will talk to you about the One Stop Shop and the details of that, but then by the March Committee we should be in pole, you know we should have procured and be in in partnership with somebody to deliver that service, so you'll hopefully we'll be able to bring the same topic. You'll see three months on how, along with the gap is between committee, will not be something else such a perfect. Thank
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:35:34
you, yeah. Maybe we need to think about how we want to schedule more informal meetings as well, and probably won a theme knows. I know I know this desire in the group of Members and other people swapped quite clear parameters about what we're discussing that and we're really well commitment and thank officers for for putting those scheduled for May. I wonder if one of them is around what are influencing Oscars towards national government not feels like her particularly sort of practising area, try not to try and resist the urge to transpose Oliver Calderdale stuff on to a wider thing, but hopefully that is something we could also get together up and anyone else in the room have anything on the asks the Gidea,
Gideon Richards (Private Sector Representative) - 0:36:16
just two things, one police for the private session, if we could maybe avoid the first week in office October, a book really appreciative, and I would like to go to the meetings.
the other one is that I still think we need to think about how we engage with other Scrutiny Committees and things like that I said at the last meeting, but there were so cross cutting with everything it really is important that we if, if we can, we get sight of of what's going on at an earlier early stage so it can actually help them support and then advise thank you.
Jenny Cooke, Advisory Representative (Environment Agency) - 0:36:59
OK, it's good fortune, yeah Allison I just and offer as well them around no note the flood programmes in November. So if there's anything that we can do to work together, that would be helpful for the Committee to be aware of in terms of the agency's flood Programme and also the work that the remains are doing is that there's a whole unit, there might be some kind of joined-up messages that would be helpful to prepare for that. Let me know how I can help
that's really good, trying to remember my friend Rosie knew used to
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:37:25
come to our meetings, so try and avoid scheduled meetings during the school holidays as well owes is among the young children and no, it's not always possible, and there's a think about aligning this with full you know see a meetings and all about what the various ones as well but and anyone else in the room.
yes, matter, are we going on to cover the slide deck next?
Martyn Broadest, Advisory Representative (West Yorks Housing Partnership) - 0:37:49
OK, sorry, am I just do a couple of suggestions in terms of things
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:37:55
that I didn't see coming out of the programme priorities at 1.00 is a
Martyn Broadest, Advisory Representative (West Yorks Housing Partnership) - 0:37:59
sort of an overarching topic of public engagement.
I appreciate it would be weeding through lots of the initiatives, but I think there's been a spelling that out in a in I've action where it might be helpful.
and then also the relationship with between on this agenda between the CIA and the local authorities,
I think there's another important thing.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:38:25
there really helpful massing good points enough justice wanted to come back on those or so just done, on a point about the kind of interface with local authorities, I think.
Allison Gillespie (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:38:34
in escaping and drafting the revised climate plan, as we think that we need to spent some time on to make sure that we
do that well and make sure that there is no duplication there and that the kind of policy landscape.
strategic level and at a local level fits together well, so I think that's that the helpful point and something that we've gotten a as sites from a policy perspective.
the other points.
public engagement and columns yeah, I think that's fine, we'll take that away and come back with something on that.
the food programmes are grateful for thank you yet, and will be in contact about planning for that agenda and then on the engaging with other Committees as opposed, what are the things we've wondered about, and indeed for the private session on the climate primary wondered about whether we also invited Joseph other relevant and committed to that session, so that's one way that we could potentially get some integration across the conversations.
but happy to take off or thoughts and ideas.
either today or outside of meeting, and then the point about influencing national government will take that one away as well.
thank you.
thank you go, you, what could come back just a quick observation for
Gideon Richards (Private Sector Representative) - 0:39:58
you, given that women to be the expert groups and the experts in these fields, can we be very careful when we put images out on documents I if you look at page.
65, I think it is the immediate area of the PV sunken down in the building.
doesn't add a great deal today.
to the understanding of PV and it could look like we don't understand it as well as in West Yorkshire Combined Authority, so I just think if we can we just be a little bit careful with some of these kinds of images, it would be helpful if,
OK.
yeah, that's fine,

9 Local Growth Plan

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:40:43
shall we wrapped that one up and that will that's just one for us to note, I do believe so soon, not around the room, for that one, okay, moving onto item number 9, which is the Local growth plan, and I believe that Joe Byrne is gonna be giving us that reports of over teenager,
Jo Barham Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:41:05
thank you, Chair, and hopefully I've owned has had a chance to read the slides are circulated, so I was just going to get there brief context and background to this and open up any comments and thoughts on those.
so this piece of work has been going on for a while now, best as an economic strategy and now local growth plan and the recent surface local and national elections if really shone a light on this work. So as a Mayoral priority set out in the mayor's manifesto to publish a local group on within six months of the election and now also as national government policy, it is obviously early days in terms of that national policy direction and there are conversations happening at the moment with politicians and also with them, civil servants and officers, and to understand the role of of local group ponds and what they mean in terms of further devolution and single settlement. Discussions are ongoing, but we do know that they are going to be statutory tenure, documents that will feed into a national industrial strategy.
so the pack that's been shed was discussed at the Combined Authority last week.
and it sets out our approach to the local growth plan costs for police of action, so there's being.
a good, a good bit of work, that's gone into pulling together that framework so we've had but a comprehensive piece of evidence done by the R and I Team, which really sets out the scale of the challenge that we face in West Yorkshire in terms of our output gap that we have with the national average and and what that means in terms of the number of jobs, business skills and investment that we need to bring into the region to to close that gap that we have with the UK average.
and what we're trying to bring a bring out in this work is the opportunity of devolution to really address those challenges.
really working things in in in in a in a different way and devolution gives us the opportunity to do that, bringing together different areas in what holistic approach.
we look at issues such as things like childcare and health and wellbeing, and the role they play in our economy in in boosting productivity, in areas where you know traditionally haven't necessarily had direct levers, but we know that really important, and through devolution we have the opportunity to look at things in a different way and act on those issues.
so it is already been touched on, there's obviously going to be quite a bit of work to align the local growth plan with existing policy and also programme work that's going on, so the climate environment plan, of course, being a key part of that and the emissions pathways them so making sure that they are aligned at strategic level and I think that's particularly important in terms of the monitoring and the indicators that are developed for the local birth plan.
so although it is a growth plan, it is clear and set out in the pack that this is growth, it needs to be sustainable, it needs to be inclusive and it needs to boost health and wellbeing.
and you know we, we agreed last year the West Yorkshire Plan sets out those principles and so in terms of that alignment, we are working towards those that those vision emissions from the West Yorkshire Plan and those
join indicators that underpin them, so that is where you know, we will be able to make sure that we are all strategically aligned across those those key documents.
we do look at the the opportunity for the green economy, through this is a real area of strength for West Yorkshire and looking our traditional sector strengths and how they can support transition.
and it will bring in some of the key strategic programmes have already been outlines and it can be discussed at the Committee, so how Banerjee West Yorkshire programme and it and all of the opportunities that will arise through the in terms of next steps so we are continuing discussions are taking feedback on on the approach on the approach that's been outlined, and there is obviously a lot more detail to to come in this and that will bring out some of those opportunities more strongly.
so we are looking at drafting a more detailed narrative over the next few months
whilst also continue to engage with the government to understand that these occasions of of their national policy and how this will fit into their, but we are hoping to have something produced them by the autumn time.
so I will Pulse there and happy to take any comments or questions and unpack.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:45:53
OK, thank you very much, Joe before I do my usual and say something, is there anyone else in the room and also pick up things on Councillor Anderson quickly, our discussion at Warren with Scrutiny staff, do you think you'll be able to make the October date now or not because the
Barry Anderson, Chair of Scrutiny Committee - 0:46:09
budget isn't and talk to what itself?
there will be outcomes of the budget that will affect, this is October, still for me, trying to apply my work is that still feasible that date, or do you seeking out of arms, it will actually slipped no?
Jo Barham Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:46:30
yeah, I think it's it's it's challenging because, as you say, it's quite fluid of have had the announcement on the budgets and things, so I think that we will be producing a bit. There will be something that we want to produce, pulling together the pathway shed, and you know we all work it out quite concise summary at the moment that will feed into some of these conversations and spending review in things, so I think, yeah, we
we, we will aim to have something drafted up at that point, but we will, you know, obviously alignment with what happens nationally as well, and you know, I think what we are one of the things that we do know is this is gonna be a statutory document, so what that means in terms of further consultation and, where required, sought bearing that in mind as well in terms of timeframes? So I think it's yet is it's definitely keeping a watching brief
thanks, Councillor and Joey, obviously, a lot of moving parts at the
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:47:25
moment in terms of things moving quite quickly national level and then the recess and the scheduling, so I was appreciated or Jaconet gives you.
that's jet. Yet, broadly speaking, lead the previous question, is just asked what I was going to ask. Budget setting will moving in the right
Cllr Jack Hemingway (Wakefield Council) - 0:47:39
direction with the strategy, for you done a good job of capturing the unique selling points of each district's and trying to merge them into a cohesive whole, which is is never easy, just an incredibly petty point for me, and I do apologise. The the sentence about apples is the format since cut last couple of sentences offer Wakefield sentence, so I'd have to raise that or at
sorry about that, think it's page 64, an update.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:48:05
very much paying attention and will love a bit of nitpicking and is a
Cllr Jack Hemingway (Wakefield Council) - 0:48:09
committee, thank you Jack, and I'm sure, if support that strike.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:48:13
Gideon Richards (Private Sector Representative) - 0:48:18
period yeah absolute Jack may be mentioned first-half Owen, Gunther nitpicking PA.
the the local authorities like I'm not in the local authority to Worcester they actually doing in terms of their own individual parts and that feeding up can you may be expand on that.
yes, so we've worked really closely with their local authorities and
Jo Barham Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:48:39
police together, so we've had a group of officers that have so I've worked through the process and also them at that sort of Chief Exec and leaders level as well. So each local authority does have their out or is developing their own economic strategy and Wellbeing Framework, and we've we've used those to to to feed into this to make sure that's being reflected. I think it is is a challenges of needed to try to make sure we reflect local priorities, but without duplicating what's been said, so trying to get that balance right between the two things. But we are yet whistle continued to work closely and engage with the local authorities and make sure that those priorities are reflected and the, as you see, coming through in the pack. While there are distinct things that are happening and then you know the rather priority Regional priorities that will impact across all areas
I have a supplementary.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:49:33
it just really are what get in forgone just just a real quick one if
Gideon Richards (Private Sector Representative) - 0:49:37
it isn't, if the the regional, once home stronger for the lead authority ones aren't strong enough, are you pushing back onlookers to to make to to drive it harder?
sorry, what do you mean the or if his strategy, yeah the yeah, through strategies on?
I will forward thinking enough or on broad enough to actually meet all of our regional
requirements, are we then going back to asking how we can improve?
and I think that's EEDO, that's where we come in at that regional
Jo Barham Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:50:17
level, to be able to do that, and so either have some local authorities will have benefits but the whole region, so you know it's really important that we reflect those in here and particularly so you know the role of Leeds a driving growth in in in West Yorkshire and how that's reflected, as you know, is our core city, but I think that is that is really the role of this to be able to elevate those local priorities and strengthen them and bring them together in intuitive documents. I think that's that's what else to do that through this Local growth Fund.
I miss I miss bits to pick out as one of the corridors of opportunity
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:50:48
to think clearly what leans towards Leeds and Bradford sauna for Kate Liz Wakefield and ourselves we'd like to ultimately said it wider emphasis on what that means, but also there's brilliant stuff in there about the inclusive economy and rural areas which is something I think we can all talk about and hope that national pick out as well when when they can speak to us so,
Jack and and added
Jo Barham Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:51:10
sorry at you've done Jack Adam in a massive thank you, Scott yeah.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:51:14
Adam Ashman, Advisory Representative (Yorkshire Water) - 0:51:17
so yeah note them the mission for around sustainability, there was a Sustainability being, reduce reuse, recycle, I didn't see anything coming out around circular economy in the region and is there an opportunity to showcase some of that to so really as a as a sales pitch and something that we can do well?
should we collect these these two comments, then you can come back and
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:51:35
if that's all right?
Adam Ashman, Advisory Representative (Yorkshire Water) - 0:51:39
I think this is just a presentational issue, but building straight housing retrofit gets a little mentioned in skills, it gets half a line in place.
Martyn Broadest, Advisory Representative (West Yorks Housing Partnership) - 0:51:51
I'm and nothing else regions dot 3 3 slides urban extensions, got to slides, the other other bullets have got to say nothing on rich, given that that's probably gonna be a 15 billion good, will take a few billion investment to the local economy just on housing that allowing the other buildings I think it's a significant economic opportunity that shouldn't be.
and play,
Adam Ashman, Advisory Representative (Yorkshire Water) - 0:52:17
yes, absolutely, and that in terms of Vunipola and investment priorities, I think there was a positioning of where we place that
Jo Barham Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:52:23
within the planning has been absolutely in key, and yet definitely that plan that will come out in and is the on sexual economy yes, it's definitely.
a strength that has come through in our analysis in terms of the green economy, opportunity this, when you are West Yorkshire is actually seen as having a comparative advantages and we've got some really good data around, not so that's another, one of those things that we need to bring out in the in the more detail them are on that secret cunning opportunity because it is something that we can really we can really Primark through this and you know it's as part of approved plans.

10 Skills Report

Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:52:59
brilliant OK, well, thank you, so much drugs really good, and some round some good stuff in there, and thanks contributions from the floor as well, OK, moving on, and thank you so much, some units wonder who have come to speak to us about the next day in which is a handy segue because we just touched on it though, which is the skills reports over to you guys.
thank you Chair, and I will just do a brief introduction, and then
Sonya Midgley, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:53:21
I'll hand over to my colleague from the schools Partnership Team to Ander because at the last Committee committee members were quite interested in in our strategic work with schools and I thought it'd be useful to give them more comprehensive updates at this meeting, but in terms of skills and progress, since the last time we met taking forward some of the actions in the green jobs' Task Force action plan, there are three main areas of of notes which are detailed in the report, the first one being adult skills and some new commissioned adult skills training which is due to out, which is a level 3 and above which is designed and led by employers and has led to new trading provision in the region in that space. The second one is around our employment support activity, so how we help people to progress in work or to find work
employment. West Yorkshire, is a local authority allied programme and there is a wide range of activities there around the green and digital agenda. Zara's of priorities and activities that have been undertaken through local authorities who lead that programme. And then the third area, which is probably why what we've just touched upon around further education and working with the sector to create pilot to support our people trained to enter these industries. The key issue that has come to light now working with the sector is around due to shortages and the retention of staff within a fee, so we're working
really closely with the college principals, in particular niche Davies from Leeds College of Building is really leading the charge in this area to design a pilot that helps us retaining talent within the sector and utilises the talent within private industry to help create that workforce for the future.
we know that to deliver some of the the big commitments we've made was retrofit and as far as mass challenge say, this is exactly the space that we need to be taken action with further details to follow.
but on that note, unless there's any specific questions, I'll hand over to to to wonder to present on our work in schools.
thank you are just sorry, sorry, I did.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:55:28
I didn't notice the own Councillor guide hung was applied to think what wanted to address some of the points just sorry I I can't wait is just Sonia said them unless there are any specific question are you do
Cllr Katie Dye (Leeds City Council) - 0:55:37
your job for go straight saying well just picking up on your on the on
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:55:41
the point about the future development of skin skills and,
Cllr Katie Dye (Leeds City Council) - 0:55:45
and and tutors on that that's gonna be absolutely crucial, isn't it to emphasise that we're talking about whether we are looking at eaves or heat pumps?
and it's a real worry if there are, there are potentially students out there that could benefit from from these courses and it possibly links to what you're going to talk about that we work in schools and we don't have the church's to deliver and I don't know how we do that but it's it would be a potentially a really rewarding career for people, I don't know how we we get to that. Are there any specific plans in place for that?
it's definitely so we've brought together the fee sector, with
Sonya Midgley, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:56:29
employers, to look at what the range of options could be in this space, and that's what's being developed present way, so that's why we don't have a final option to propose, but it could include things like how do we utilise the expertise within industry to do teachings within the FE sector? The key issue for the sector is is pay because the duties in colleges don't get paid as much as their school counterparts and of course, if they're offered work in the industry at a high level of pay, it's very difficult to retain them, so we're looking at what the art of the possible is an alternative solutions, but that's were currently being undertaken
OK, Councillor Anderson.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:57:07
good again, Christian came up with scrutiny on Friday, what is a green jobs and how do you measure it?
we've got a target, I'm not only reach, failed to meet the target by the reward question reply is that when it will not be part of your your Tachwedd work stream, are you going is that one of your output
Barry Anderson, Chair of Scrutiny Committee - 0:57:27
define what a green jobs is so that we can then ask for it to be monitored exactly so that a job that,
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:57:35
Luke, Chiswick weight regain, but when you scratch the surface isn't agreeing as it should be, and once that maybe someone doesn't think he's Green is actually contributing quite a bit to the agenda, have you got any definition, you are not Sosanya, can you do the that do the paragraph and not the day long workshop session answer to that question 4?
Sonya Midgley, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:58:00
thank you for the question and the degree to has fostered define what a green jobs and I feel like I'm items, I'm under pressure now to recall the exact Deputy shed and
I will hi will, but yes, we have to find it.
perfect, I think, getting on your hundreds of because you're not gonna
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:58:20
be Pisano with your comments, broader north of I'm not going to even
Gideon Richards (Private Sector Representative) - 0:58:26
go there, I was really going to ask about the Yasini sector, particularly small roundabout, and how how we're looking to support that side of it in terms of skills and how can we integrate them into a better?
great question, thank you, we are developing and skills for gross
Sonya Midgley, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:58:47
service, which is specifically to support SMEs.
to to be better connected with the skills offer.
so that is something we're out if they're looking at any advice that you have in that space of how to do it better would be gratefully received, we are talking to businesses.
people who are part of our networks, such as the inclusive growth network, the business represent ever representative organisations, but it's the challenge is always to get that wide inclusive view.
OK, thank you, I think that everyone on that bit to wander over to you
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 0:59:25
to complete her, frankly, are just trying to ensure that my slides or a bar on this.
so afternoon everyone my name is to wonder, and I'm what you call an enterprise coordinator in the schools Partnership Team, what we do is we support schools and colleges across West Yorkshire with their careers provision, ensuring that they are given as much support as the
Sonya Midgley, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:59:54
candidate young people and helping them make informed decisions for their next steps but also taken into consideration pairs of local economic structure and how that might have an impact on them. So today, once I've got some slides going, I wanted to tell you guys about some of the work that we've been doing in the schools Partnership Team over the last couple of years, as well as some projects that are upcoming predominantly around green skills and green jobs affecting people from across the region from all different age groups bear with me a moment
sorry, I can't go to connect.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:00:40
I mean, it might be OK because we have, I have got some of this, so I don't know if you want to actually manage it.
I think he took can talk to them and now I think it is right that's
Liz Hunter, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:00:54
right, that's well below 0 comma 5 ha.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:01:00
so, as I mentioned, with started a few projects over the years looking at green skills and how can we better support young people?
the first thing I wanted to mention was our green skills youth programme that ran in 2022, it was a project spanning across all of us Yorkshire targeting young people aged bought 17 years old, which had a reach of 174 young people.
the general objective work that was looking at, how can we help young people understand what a green jobs, so asking by question will just add before.
as well as identifying any particular barriers to helping young people access the green economy, and we did this through a number of activities which included things like Q&A sessions around what is actually green role, young people, given some pretend funding, to take a look at what it's them what is important to them and how would they invest?
when it comes to green areas.
and alongside that, you also have the youth consultation panel, which then heavily fed into the green skills Task Force and the recommendations that came out of that piece of work.
which was predominantly around how young people actually have an interest in green skills and the more that they know about it, the more they want to engage with it
in terms of outcomes, what we found before, as well as after students, are given a questionnaire to complete, and there was an 82% increase in students saying they would be interested in a green jobs following on from the activities students rates in the understanding as excellent increased by 10 times.
and there was also acknowledgment that there is a lack of knowledge around the green economy.
I'm going back to that investment activity, some of the things that young people mentioned, whoops key to them and the most important things to invest in in this particular order were green within green facilities, low carbon and green voices, those without priority areas in terms of what is the most important thing to them after they have had extensive s of training so to speak around what his green jobs and how it affects them.
moving on from that in 2023.
Tawanda Mukombiwa (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:03:21
we launched a grant opportunities are open to 183 secondary schools and colleges.
all across West Yorkshire, with 10 schools being awarded a grant funding to take on a project around green jobs and green skills.
each projects would be unique in terms of their approach in how they engage young people, and we also opened this up to not just cover because of typical barriers in terms of disadvantaged groups.
I think for a lot of work that we do it, so looking at sort of economic could disadvantage, but when you take a look at how the schools were impacted by the pandemic and everything else, you have a lot of issues that are coming up in schools, for example and often non-attendance due to things like anxiety et cetera so for this particular grant we decided to almost open it up to say let us know who you are challenging cohort is and what approach of ways are you going to take to engage them in the green economy?
projects are currently taking place, they started from September 2023 and will finish in October 2024, and, as of February 2024, we pulled out some figures from the impact on the reach, and by that time there were 2,400 98
direct beneficiaries, that means that the students that the schools express that there'll be targeting in their initial application so again going back to whether it's economical factors or other sorry, disadvantaging factors and on top of that you also had 5,005 indirect beneficiaries, so those are the students that, although there were targeted in the initial application, they just so happen to also be beneficiaries of the project, and you also had 357 key influencers, not those are your teachers, parents and everyone else associated with that.
in terms of the sort of final results, we are in the process of Calais in, and point forms from each of the grant recipients and will be able to get more information on the impact, as well as reach and any other sort of outcomes from each individual projects as of October 22 went too far.
in terms of looking ahead, we are looking at the start of a project called Green innovators.
and this is specifically targeting primary schoolchildren from high deprivation postcodes all across West Yorkshire, the idea with this is to target and engage 3,000 primary schoolchildren as well as their parents, and increase their understanding of green skills.
we're also looking to challenge stereotypes around who can procedure green career, but also what is it?
as well as that will also look into engage with those educators, providing them with the resources and knowledge on how they can embed green careers into the curriculum.
in terms of this project, it will be starting in September.
it will be a 6 week programme for each individual school, with the first cohort going between September and December.
Andrew there's projects, the students will have an eco innovation projects which again will have resources attached to it, as well as industrial professionals going into discussed their own careers, Jeremy what enticed him to go into a green career, whether it was purposeful or accidental but either way celebrating The Casey regardless.
the main cohort will be a year 5 students, but there will be other touch points for different year groups to make sure that the project has as wider reach as possible.
and to on kind of celebrate their kick-off of bringing as a nice picture to show you how it's all OK.
so that's some of the work that we've been doing in terms of the bigger projects, but as the schools Partnership team are always
Sonya Midgley, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:07:43
looking for opportunities like
not all those retrofit that was just mentioned, that's something that will be look into and it's a comments I see, how can we help young people understand what retrofit is, what impact it's going to have on them, as well as the wider economy?
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:08:01
thank you very much OK, thank you so much for that, both some some really good stuff then finished on a high, just a bit of good news from from what we've done back at the ranch in terms of taking that photos, some of the recommendations from the action plan is very much informing our post 16 strategy and we aim to do quite a lot of big camp stuff over the next few years and hopefully with a bit of sustainability that work going but,
anyone anyone wants to pick up any councillor Bobby yeah.
Cllr Sarah Ferribly (Bradford Council) - 1:08:31
just wondered, monitored, sympathy, older age, children, the initial work with F, they actually gone into to green jobs and training and also.
are we keep up the momentum, because this is a really big area that we, we are, if we're not careful going to have a skills gap because we've got it across a number of industries.
not only in West Yorkshire, but the length and breadth of the country, and then also you touched upon about which retain those people, and actually sometimes it's a case of that, you know, people have families and you have to follow the money when you bringing up a family boys are we can work with the industry to ensure that locally grown.
young people and older adults that go into the grain industry actually will retain them to carry out the work that's much needed in this area,
good questionnaire over two years.
sorry in terms of how it can keep up the momentum, so going back to
Sonya Midgley, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:09:39
the Second project that would did for grant funding, one of the requirements for each of the applicants was the sustainability aspects, so how will you keep your project sustainable beyond just this year as well as the time for the funding and each projects that was one of our biggest scoring criteria is so we fully expected be sustainable across all those 10 schools?
in terms of sort of keeping that local talent, so to speak, you know with pretty much all of these different activities, we ensured that we try as much as possible to include local businesses as well as alumni where possible just to show that there is there are those opportunities in West Yorkshire and you don't need to go beyond that.
and yeah pink apologised for missed anything by families, their memory.
yeah, it was just them any if they are older, and the initial work we
Cllr Sarah Ferribly (Bradford Council) - 1:10:39
saw that maybe the 15 to 17 year olds of at many of them gone into green jobs and training.
so, in terms of monitoring that, I'd say, it's a little early at this stage to take a look at sort of progression opportunities, one of the
Sonya Midgley, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:10:56
things I think we should and will be working on from the new year is
Tawanda Mukombiwa (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:11:02
looking at track in those previous projects to see in terms of maybe not so much employment but in terms of the next steps was,
and in relation to the a green skill,
OK, thanks for that matter.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:11:16
yeah, similar vein to terrorist question, on sustainability, it it's
Martyn Broadest, Advisory Representative (West Yorks Housing Partnership) - 1:11:20
kind of crispy scalability.
it sounds like projects had been really successful.
I'm guessing, there has been some really good lessons learned about what works and what doesn't work.
10 schools on the second project, great but there's hundreds of schools across West Yorkshire, so how is this gonna be, is there are planning to make it scalable?
so as part of the West Yorkshire career hump, which is what we look after what we try and do is share best practice as much as possible. We have 183 schools across the region and for that particular second project we have just commissioned some in-depth case, that is to take a worker from each individual project. What were the big successes,
Tawanda Mukombiwa (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:12:06
what were some challenges, you know what words, and that's something that will be looking to shop with the wider Hub and then from looking at, how can us, as Enterprise coordinators, with our individual case loads, support them with that kind of scalability and candour, ensure that we try and do that as much as possible? We've got what we'll call it buddying scheme while we looked match-up schools and colleges from one side where they may. What
take something on, or if they're struggling with a particular area, we can refer them on to a school or college where we provide that something that cover funding, etc to try and remove barriers as much as possible, so we can take a lot of the almost candour things where you don't need the grant funding to spread that across and even in some of the projects.
like one brigades, High School, for example, part of their project was developing, resources that can be shared with members crossed the hub so again on the grant back to scalability, that would be a resource that certain down available for anyone to access.
OK idea.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:13:13
Gideon Richards (Private Sector Representative) - 1:13:16
just going back to the sunny side of it and how 9 yes, amazing Bronzino typically don't have the results to take on young people because I say takes up too much time, whether it's apprentices or anything else, so how are we looking at integrating that side of it in so they can take them on?
to the students home.
Tawanda Mukombiwa (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:13:43
so as part of again, going back to the careers home, we work quite closely with businesses have an enormous brokerage service between the world of work and the world of education, and in that we do have quite a number of SMEs where we work with them to sort of see how can be better engaged with education. So we have these enterprise advisers that will typically work with the school on a strategic basis, to take a look at what are the needs of industry and how can schools better prepare their students to progress into that? Now, of course, there's always the sort of time aspects with an ESA me where the calm affords pretty much send someone on a so longer-term basis, but we do try as much as possible to understand what their needs from one semi perspective and how come about as a pop up, as well as working in turnover with colleagues from teams like the skeletal business to engage with those SMEs to try and support them with things like talent pipeline and
Sonya Midgley, Officer (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:14:44
I'll just add to that as well, across the wider work of the team were doing to pay big pieces of work, one is around looking at technical pathways for progression of young people within our key sectors and will be hosting a round table in the autumn with employers to really understand what the barriers are to offering those kinds of we hear this time and time again but you know there's the different areas for different employers, for different types of work experience provision, so as part of that mapping where we want to have that round table discussion, the other thing that we're doing is around a graduate pilot and maths graduate pilot to support SMEs help retain graduate talent within the region.
and that will be launched in the autumn term as well, so there's just two examples of avoiding.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:15:33
OK alright will sons thanks both lot report, really good and interesting to see progress, I think we've probably got a role as Members as well to amplified, promote and engage some of the work that's being done by the Marin and by you guys in in our own low cows to make sure we maximise our ambition, so thank you very much both.

11 Home Energy West Yorkshire

okay.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:15:57
moving on to the next item the biggest news since Marathon became Snickers, massive rebranding operation here from the from the artist formerly known as the Home energy West Yorkshire so sort of teaser
Sophie Brook (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:16:14
Sophie to present this item, thank you and say as as cause noted, we are now home energy West Yorkshire rather than better homes hub at and that follow some audience testing that was completed, so the new Programme was launched on the 22 of July along with two new offers of support, the first been a low interest retrofit Loan which you will have seen before this Committee can give you an update on that sofa surf form following formal launch on the 22 of July have so far been 17 applications at least one per district
with the most being in Leeds while we've had eight so far, those are all progressing through assessment at the moment and we've had a mix of measures being applied for the minutes are at 5.00 heat pumps, 5 solar and then a few other bits and bobs as well.
the second offer, a support that was launched on the 22 of July, was the sole a collective buying scheme so that actually open to applications little earlier from the 5th of July there have been over 3,000 expressions of interest so far.
and the window for expressions of interest clauses on the 9th of August.
we then expect the market to return and offer tours are kept at the residents, have expressed an interest, and they will have four weeks to decide whether they want to then take up that offer, so we expect installations then take place between September and March.
and finally, a short update, I guess from the paper, is you'll see in there that we've also requested that the Committee approved transfer of delegations to our new Head of Home energy, West Yorkshire, from previous head of service, that's at section 4 in your paper, thank you.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:18:03
brilliant silverly, thanks so much for that any comments from the floor.
pic to
Cllr Katie Dye (Leeds City Council) - 1:18:11
hi thank you, I've had a number of people raise with me concerns about the ethics of the that the chain of supplying of solar panels, and it's not something I know much about at all, but going all the way back down to to the materials to the production methods when that sourced in in in places around the world that have ethical Standards issues.
is that something that's been explored, and am I able to offer reassurance to the people who've asked me questions of happens at
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Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:18:52
yesterday in them, so, yes, that has been explored, it's something
Sophie Brook (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:18:56
that we are aware of, we are aware and that there are some risks around modern slavery, and that is something that we take into account in our projects as we progress through them, so it's it's a risk that we are aware of yes,
hopefully something about tracking, so Ted going back to in terms of
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:19:17
monitoring at Wiggle, thank you.
at John I think you're hundreds of next was no, it wasn't very bad at this chairing work, so giddy and I'm gonna go with you and then look
Gideon Richards (Private Sector Representative) - 1:19:30
for hands, so just on the basis of what's just been set and do we have a sustainability strategy for the Kiln Hillary and how does that relate to what's just been covered?
Sophie Brook (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:19:37
Sophie Brook (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:19:44
so it's a risk that's on our risk registers are programme as a whole and we're working with our commercial team at the moment to make sure that any procurement the take place is in line with our modern slavery statement as an organisation but also as he to,
sustainability requirements to,
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:20:02
and I'm guessing, sort of moving pictures stuff is some of the stuff happened nationally around GB energy, and some of the changes and and procurement issues are going to be something we track and think about how that applies to us going forward as well, anyone else.

12 Transport Decarbonisation

no OK, well, thank you for the report, I think we are being asked to note this and then approved the existing delegations outlined in the report and for those to be transferred transferred to the newly appointed Head of Service for home energy West, Yorkshire, so I'll just say a tacit nod yeah, OK perfect thank you very much.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:20:39
okay, moving onto Rosanna rich your show in terms of transport, decarbonisation. You very welcome, thanks very much so. This is a
Roseanna Brett-Davis - 1:20:47
paper on the Local Transport Plan and its in relationship to decarbonisation. So we had a paper at the last Committee back in May on what the Local Transport Plan was trying to do so. The purpose of this paper is basically twofold. One issue highlight the Local Transport Plan engagement which is now live, a public and stakeholder engagement on the new and the draft plan and on mass transit phase 1 was launched on the 15th of July, and the purpose of this engagement is to receive feedback on the proposed vision, objectives and principles that will guide the policies and associated interventions that will be included in the new Local Transport Plan.
this is the other purpose of this paper is to look at specifically at the decarbonisation elements of the Local Transport Plan, so this is a document that, still in development, what comes out of the CA, the engagement exercise will help to shape our thinking in this area but where we are with it currently is tackling the climate emergency is one of the four objectives of the draft plan which is currently out to engagement.
combined Authority officers are working with District partners to explore a number of different policy areas that could help us achieve this goal through the draft plan and the paper sets out four key areas. We're looking to do that one is around sustainable travel, so embedding and promoting sustainable travel choice which will be key for to making public transport walking cycling we willing easier, and a big part of this requires a consideration of how we're gonna use our streets, and we need to make sure we are balancing the needs of different transport options in different places on our streets. So this examination could include things such as them. Streets base use travel, demand how the customer offer can be improved in the future on public transport and including a focus on the public transport network integration and affordability. Alongside this, we need to look at decarbonisation of the network, so the transition away from petrol and diesel to solutions such as electric vehicles, hydrogen, another low and 0 emission fuels, will be a major contribution to kibbeh ambitions, as well as air quality ambitions. And through the Local Transport Plan Policy Framework, were exploring options for decarbonisation and drawing on other pieces of work that going on and have already been completed, including the Rail Strategy, the dress them, electric vehicle infrastructure Strategy which is also out to consultation at this moment,
as well as bus reform work and hydrogen work. Another aspect would be digital connectivity, so boosting productivity and enabling inclusive growth are also draft objectives of the emerging Local Transport Plan and improving digital connectivity in the region will not only help us with both these objectives but also help to reduce carbon emissions and reducing the need to travel, and the fourth area is climate resilience and biodiversity
so exploring climate adaptation and resilience, and identifying the risk and opportunity for the region from the changing climate is needed through our transport infrastructure, and likewise we need to consider how.
the Local Transport Plan can help us to achieve our ambitions around nature, restoration, biodiversity and wildlife habitats in the region, so in these kind of key areas policies are being explored tariff and will we updated and to reflect the outcomes of the engagement exercise it's going on at this moment in time and also this work is being done in parallel with our carbon emissions reduction pathway work and the refreshed Co climate environment plan them. So I'll leave it there but happy to take questions.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:24:25
I'm curious on I'm bestselling album and Jock to Scotland, thank you.
but thank you reap the just in the section where he would talked about
Adam Ashman, Advisory Representative (Yorkshire Water) - 1:24:33
sustainable travel, no, the the the use of streets by Sinn is just to play, not for the consideration of flood risk management so sustainable drainage, are you going to talk about biodiversity so we might be heading in that point anyway but you are happy to pick up with you separately and share some of the work that Yorkshire Water them we love Local authorities and Combined authorities.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:25:00
I think you're right in BMG and the whole sucks agendas flight, probably with an opportunity to cope and website guilty personally, one stone, but you know, make sure that we make to similar agenda has happened at the same time, just looking at project Ash Green in in in my own borough that's doing a really interesting School streets project specifically with Saltcotes because I'd like to see more of that we cannot Rosanna anything to pick out on that.
Roseanna Brett-Davis - 1:25:26
now and ethnicity may be interested in said, I think and act that Heineken.
OK Jack.
thanks Chair yeah, thanks very much welcome the direction and content
Cllr Jack Hemingway (Wakefield Council) - 1:25:37
of the report. I think one thing from either a wonderful, be possible to have more of them to drop more explicit. The public health inequality benefits from the report, obviously in terms of the most of those interventions to improve air quality if not all, particularly as they can, for example in Wakefield city centre not to be too parochial but one of the air quality zones effectively, majority of emissions are caused by buses and obviously, when we get the zero-emission buses online it will deal with that problem to a large extent, but I just think it will clear about the the cool benefits that might hope is to tie in with public health and other strategies and the public authorities across the public sector are trying to achieve with this
yeah absolutely definitely would be keen to do that and we will see looking air quality, restrictive standard web, hoping to draw them
Roseanna Brett-Davis - 1:26:19
altogether and that kind of public health, and it is really important as well.
I think there's a bit of a reality check there about the actual.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:26:29
the gravity of what we need to do in terms of transport and thinking around road reallocation in some of the changes that we need to make a, I wonder if councillors, I'm sure you do all, probably grasp the understanding of some of the unpopular decisions that we can have to take but critically necessary, but actually there was unpopular decisions often track into quite good results poetically you notes or be slightly mercenary about it.
I think as well, we need to probably be cognisant of the fact that great to do capital projects, but we need to be mindful of the revenue implications, not suggest deliverable to do some of the back end stuff whether that's maintenance, whether that's the development of the plans and not something that is really live in, I think, called authorities as we look to water budget setting which I'm sure leaders and people are currently doing so I I guess I think we all see pays the opportunity to highlight all listen. Hopefully, officers are painting that picture around what the implications are at the same time as well get here
Gideon Richards (Private Sector Representative) - 1:27:37
yeah, can I maybe just pick up on one and it it comes of what scouts' actually and.
the like we've had incur Cleese a project scrapped in the end, though postponed or whatever we got a call it, but specifically the main problem was the existing trees, were there, the mature trees and how that was dealt with, and it was a big lobby against trees being cut down, obviously,
and all of that, and I think there's a piece of work to be done with the activists and also with the be N. G. Side of it to actually get a better understanding of what what needs to happen and how it can happen in an inappropriate way.
because I know that that's just gonna keep on coming up.
and it, and it's a difficult one,
yeah, absolutely it again, it's about balancing the parties in how we
Roseanna Brett-Davis - 1:28:33
manage that effective, Lisa I'll definitely take that away and we will continue to look at.
I think we all want to see lovely altogether months when he compliance
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:28:42
stuff in all our poorest boasts, it will need to be mindful of that's not necessarily always the best solution looking in some places like tough embankment in Wales in some listed without doing around slowing traffic and narrowing Highways to make sure that space is a useful for all the good things that we know there's a lot of good practice out last year.
OK any other points on that, no, thank you, Rossana as great as it takes for those points away, and let's see that evolve is going forward.

13 West Yorkshire Strategic Climate and Environment Partnership

OK, I think this think that certain we just need to know if the concepts of the report and the next one is the West Yorkshire Strategic climate environment pattern partnership, and this is for me to deliver this one place, I would say.
Oluwafemi Omoniyi (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:29:28
thank you the aim of the papers to provide the Committee with do if I feel of the partnership, and we also look into seek Members' imputes on the aims and objectives of the Partnership, its area of focus and also the interface between the Committee and partnership, sorry, I've just we talked through the slides if that's OK,
so obviously just to give a an overview of the paperless sheep.
we recognise the need to engage with private partners and private sector organisations, so in March we published a prayer,
notice information and we had a couple of applications, an expression of interest from private sector organisation of all the organisations that applied for that we selected for organisations down to the fact that the the expression of interest closely outlines with our objectives as well as the organisation at the the all add the capacity and expertise to support us with delivering are NIPSA objectives at the skill and piece that we wanted a good true.
at the moment we are walking on finalising a memorandum of understanding with all the partners, and we just want to seek members' views on the area of focus of the partnership, the governance arrangement, particularly our the Committee interface, with that partnership and also the key objectives, so I think the the Kee slides are slides can be found in Ph 1 54 1 58 and 1 59.
so one 54 outlines the area of focus we've identified at the moment, that's me duly taken from our climate and environment plan, and it sent as on five major area of focus, the first one being energy generation said. I would basically include this around solar, who would include as our unwind, battery Green, Green hydrogen as well, as well as the infrastructure required for the delivery of such of that within West Yorkshire. We also think the partnership should be looking into it. Pumps and it networks, as well as long as the associated infrastructure required for 4 dear utilisation within West, actually as well that obviously we are key a key one for us, as well as energy efficiency, so retrofits of buildings would domestic and non-domestic across West Yorkshire then default. One that we've considered indie is also Nitro recovery solutions, and this is Lincoln with things like peatland. Restoration and biodiversity am Lincoln without and wellbeing, and also tree planting as well. And finally, we as an area of focus, we are considering green finance as well, and that's just basically including the development of blended finance solutions that would be fair, very useful in delivering delivering our intervention of had the skill we want them to go. The for partners that we as we selected at Centrica Deacon Scottish and Southern energy and sustainable peace building services. Some details on those organisations are and can be found on page,
can we find on page 1 56, if I'm right or wrong 57, but the other thing we want any view on as well, based on this area of focus that has been identified, was the imagine objectives to come out of that once again, we've brought that down to about five objectives. The first one is with regard to the projects and development activities are activities feasibility studies on potential Laski, climate and environment schemes and deployment. Then obviously, Q 1 Force was to identify finance and influence investment models. Another one was procurement mechanism and exploring are we can enable the infrastructure required for the schemes that have been developed, then also, if we can design, build and manage climate and environment schemes across West structure and
and also bring finances what it is important to note that this objectives, obviously based on your steering, can be refined, it's not agreed yet with the partners, so we are happy to take your views on that.
so the final thing we want it will be final thing will wanted from the Committee was to understand, obviously we want the committee to almost year the partnership, and so what we are proposing after the signing of the Memorandum of understanding by the partners is first,
Irvine the MOU, which would highlight the area forecast that would agree upon the aims and objectives, but also it will help us with regard to a primary to set in at least for the first one year so we will be going into discussions individual discussions with offer partners following the signing of the MoU and is just to discuss their priorities for the next one a year and would want them to be able to bring that back to Committee at a later date. Just to disgust us does priority settings then to find out then obviously performance and monitoring so it is proposed that performance and progress against the activity of the Partnership for the current financial year.
is reported to a future Committee mittens and in, and that basically were up in assessing the performance and the usefulness of the Patricia, so I think that that's basically everything for myself, I think the key discussion points workforce on the area forecast, as outlined on page 1 4 2 1 54, just to see if, if the area of focus we have identified a subsequent, I mean you'll be a substantial, if there's any other thing, we should be added in the that, something you think we should. We move out of that and then also page 1 58, the imagine objectives based on this area of focus. At the other things you would want us to add into that 0 I did, then she would want us to remove from those emerging objectives and with regard to the interface as well, if that's something, we all agree with all of this additional
additional mechanisms were once in place as well
thank you.
thank you for that, and on average had a meeting with them all and
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:35:55
pleasantly surprised about the you know, folk focus and willingness to engage with this system in the morality and really do that work, and hopefully the whittling down of them to to these initial for risk was quite robust process but also the very open to working with and developing other private sector partners to.
feeding in some of this. Before I say what I want to say just a few things to anyone else in the room. He wants to pick out Jacqueline Gidon first and then thank you, Chair yeah, thank you for all the work, and the information reportedly clearly sees one of the key wish for public sector to get more capacity in the system and get that
Cllr Jack Hemingway (Wakefield Council) - 1:36:31
expertise that we simply don't have to deliver on. Some of these things very much welcome the suggestion of adding green finance the mix. I think he needs needs to be in their just one comment in relation to pigeon, 56. Obviously we've not had any company come forward with a particular specialism in niche recovery. Biodiversity is that because it's just a lack of interesting casting the marketing in the region in the country, and I suppose what's the contingency if no pattern emerges in that area, to work with us on that have a wheelchair that would delivering some wacky schemes in that particular sort of flats may be fit liaison to tick away as well
adding that something foster ticket when we do identify that the era
Oluwafemi Omoniyi (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:37:14
of football can change and obviously we have a look how the team working on tax within the Combined Authority Woking and a strategy for that as well, and that's something would basically take back to the Partnership and once again the partnership is not fixed we we basically will be signified, shall not paperless that could meet those requirements if if the interest in deaths as well.
thank you. If it is a familiar setting to try to think as we develop
Liz Hunter, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:37:41
the local nature recovery strategy, I think that will also highlights some of the real opportunities that are hearing and properly set out our stall. I think what is also interesting is how some of the conversations that we're starting to have with kind of institutional investors are kind of quite interested in how they can start to invest in this. The types of schemes which are as yet is the ability to have payback is quite interesting. So I think there's there is certainly a lot of them are a lot of interest in these areas. I would see it as a more emerging that we would. We would want to think about what partnerships would be rights, and through that, I think, has already mentioned. There was a number of of, obviously others who we didn't say feel it was robust process at the the team took to whittle down to to the fore. We are really interested, though, in keeping that wider network, so we, I think, have written back to those people who worked successfully to say, but do you want you still willing to be part of a wider partnership?
and we'll try and develop what that looks like so so because we really recognise that we need a lot of champions in the space, and if anybody shown interest in working with us, then we want to try and maximise that
yeah, I think that's right and we're not going to do this on our own
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:38:54
Surrey, the need to maximise those partnerships, but we can be so good, Ian and adult.
Gideon Richards (Private Sector Representative) - 1:39:02
thanks and I've got a couple of thought, 1 is the transport hasn't and how transport too big part of what I'm talking about in terms of the decarbonisation, but also this feels, and I appreciate why it's being done this way, but I go back to my current remembering carbon Trust when they started setting up partnerships.
a long time ago, and this feels like a
a process where big companies can benefit from it without the smaller organisations having a chance, so what we've got is the central, because we've got Dickens and people like that in here, how do we engage the SMEs side of the into this marketplace as well because at the moment those organisations will want to do it but their way of doing it with their people?
they might bring on Maltby more staff to do this, but invariably, the smaller SMEs will feel isolated by this and feel like the Combined Authority, its siding with bigger organisations. I know, certainly when I sold at the partnerships coming up, I looked at it and thought Well, yeah forget anything for any of the people I know, so I was just wondering, how are we going to to maybe
deal with that
thanks Convener now bringing Liz on that, thanks in fully met
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:40:38
management to come out of it means a really good point that certainly
Liz Hunter, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:40:43
wasn't about trying to isolate organisations. I think what we've recognised is that some of the wider organisations have their own funding, that they are wanting to put into places, and we are trying to maximise the amount they put here and hopefully also work with them in a way which is to our objectives. So this is not about trying to identify organisations that we might run through procurement through all can have engaged with through the processes. This was recognising that some of these big organisations do have a lot of money to spend and how can we can infer. How can we do that in a partnership approach? That's not to say that there are small organisations that also have that so
we we, this wasn't set up to try and isolate or do as you suggest both. That's the feeling, then we probably need to say something around how this is going to to work more broadly, then, and we can. We can kind of address that because I definitely don't want that to be the feeling him in our marketplace. I'll I'll bring you back in
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:41:40
animal, but Jacques goes and look for us just to sorry just on that exact point. I just wonder, in terms of provided comfort, to give you the reassurance on that, for for the committee as well. Is there
Cllr Jack Hemingway (Wakefield Council) - 1:41:47
anything in the them? All you are frameworks about using local providers that we could ask the partners to commit to, even if it's just a broad commitment that they will look to use local providers and local businesses in the first instance to source the workforce and some of the materials etc but thanks anyway we we can look at what we're saying, you know you about the local partnerships, I think to be really really clear. This is there's no money exchange account through
Liz Hunter, Director (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:42:10
this partnership, so it's if there is to be any further procurement from us or from from local authorities. We would go through the rest of the relevant processes in certain social value and the relationship between Ed supply chain and the and
and the local market is definitely part of that, but this is yeah, this is where we can have quite a number of steps before that in terms of this partnership, and we've tried to be really clear that we and we're not commissioning people to to do you name the Whitley that's maybe can have suggested three things.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:42:43
briefly come back because we have got a few hands up yeah, so it's a
Gideon Richards (Private Sector Representative) - 1:42:47
perception issue for one, and also there's a benefit issue, so whether monies being ha, changed hands or nor there's a benefit issue, and I know from previous that this has been quite a difficult one, so just just raising thank you know, that's good. Thank you, and maybe there's
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:43:05
an opportunity, while we schedule in the offline meetings to do something where we come together and think about some of that synergy, influencing shared goals as well, one in five, maybe one named report, 2 from each of our organisations to think about what the shape of that is, just to provide a bit of comfort and also a bit strategy going on as well, so we actually gonna be one to three added Matson in Jenny also next week to hopefully a really quick one in terms of the
Adam Ashman, Advisory Representative (Yorkshire Water) - 1:43:30
the sort of expressions of interest was it just a private sector oral audit, you talk to charity sector, so people like the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust just note to my projects, question about the it was the capability come from furniture recovery it might not be in the private sector from having the charity sector, on-field Regeneration Trust, groundwork in all sorts of organisational by that an OK so their combined sort question family honour coming on that first,
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:43:56
yeah, yes on the.
Oluwafemi Omoniyi (Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:44:00
on the and public information that is that we them, we've put out, he was committed for private organisation and and we received, I think it sends a 19 expression of interest from different sort of organisations, comes consultancy and the different types of organisation, and we'd deep review all of that. But once again, as I alluded to earlier this, this is not fixed stunning it and we are basically this is something that would be reviewed from time to time and all the panellists are aware of debts and just want just also mentioned
on what the needs are said earlier, particularly for small organisations. We do have to stick ordering Fund forearmed. I would form out, as part of this, where the four partner submitted with audacity orders within the them within the region, and that's something that we are trying to think about the governance for that. As of now and the basic idea for that East photos for partners and Weetwood audacity orders within the region, we already have conversations with somewhat with. Some organisations would have loved to be part of the partnership, but just could be part of it as of yet does due to the process, and we are basically present them as part of that informed the order for him and he says, basically to add more governors to ensure no one's Morgan as a perception of being ostracised as part of this.
okay, Martin, is that yeah.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:45:20
Rebecca
thank you, and I wonder if maybe the maybe the partners might want to
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:45:27
share some of their local successes and stuff to help shape some of the work that we want to do and and Tracey's work as well, because clearly it's not gonna be that first rodeo working locally but hopefully an opportunity to do that really well and strongly my shorter journey.
yeah, thank you, I just want to, then it just felt very puts a flag.
Jenny Cooke, Advisory Representative (Environment Agency) - 1:45:45
They work that Leeds are doing in the green financing, along with the so called the air resilience company, and it supports a lot of the NFM solutions and celebration that have gone in in place for Leeds fast here. So that's really pioneering really sort of excellent thinking that has gone into that. You know contacting both large and small local firms intensive, how they can support the financing of of some of these initiatives that we obviously you know it wants to want to continue and grow in. So yeah just felt good opportunity just to flag that work and some good learning, Sir Jonathan mocks. In this that the the key contact f c r m offset from Leeds. He loves talking about this scheme, it's amazing he will. You will love, love the opportunity to learn more about that.
but yet some good work happening. Thank you
okay, Councillor Anderson,
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:46:35
Barry Anderson, Chair of Scrutiny Committee - 1:46:46
eminent yeah, that's right and yet.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:46:52
it's not routinely not fully complete, but you quite right yet.
Cllr Scott Patient Calderdale Council - 1:46:59
and anyone else
no OK, well, thank you so much for that, that's really helpful, hopefully.

14 Date of the Next Meeting

we've picked out some of the points and sort of questions there that need answering, and we look forward to keeping aligned, I guess, with those partners and hopeful opportunities around us coming together and in terms of understanding what can and can't be done. OK OK well, thank you everyone I think we've done that. So number 14 is the date of the next meeting which I understand is due to be held on Tuesday 26th of November 2024, so thank you all for your time contributions which have been robust and and pleasant so much appreciated and see you next time.
thank you,