The Transport for the North Board will meet four times per year, but additional meetings may take place should the need arise.
All Members will be entitled to attend meetings of the Transport for the North Board, and if they are unable to attend, their nominated Substitute Member may attend in their place.
Each of the 20 Constituent Authorities appoints one of its elected Members to be a Member of the Transport for the North Board.
The Member appointed must be in the case of a Constituent Authority that has an elected Mayor, the Mayor or the elected Member with responsibility for transport and in any other case the Leader, the Chair or the elected Member with responsibility for transport.
All committee meetings are open to the public (including the press) except to the extent that they are excluded whether during the whole or part of the proceedings.
The Transport for the North Board will meet at 11am on Wednesday, February 23, bringing together northern civic and business leaders.
This meeting will be live streamed via video conferencing. Members of the public can view proceedings via this live web link:
Please note that whilst you will be able to watch public items, members of the public will not normally be allowed to address a meeting of the Transport for the North Board. Any request to address a meeting of the Transport for the North Board will be referred to the Chief Executive who will decide whether to make appropriate arrangements for the member of the public to meet either with officers of Transport for the North or a delegation of Members of the Board outside the Transport for the North Board Meeting.
A copy of the public proceedings will be published after the meeting has taken place.
In order to fulfil our obligations on commercial confidentiality and data protection, the public and press will be excluded for certain agenda items where confidential or ‘exempt’ information is discussed.
You will be able to download the agenda and papers for this meeting five working days before the meeting date.
Transport for the North’s Constitution provides senior officers with powers to take delegated decisions where necessary, and the Chief Executive’s powers are wide enough to allow him to take decisions on any urgent matter in the interests of Transport for the North which is not specifically reserved to Board itself, having consulted with the Chair or members by such method as he may determine.
Whilst formal decision making meetings must now be held in person, Covid-19 legal restrictions also remain in place, so this meeting is convened not as a formal Board meeting with personal attendance by members and public, but as a “virtual” consultation meeting following which the Chief Executive may take whatever decisions are necessary having consulted with members.
In all other respects, this meeting has been set up to comply with other legal requirements which apply to Board meetings, and the public can view it online, both live and after the meeting.
Letter sent to the Secretary of State regarding Transport for the North’s funding allocation 2022-23.