Decision details

Transforming Cities Fund Programme

Decision Maker: West Yorkshire Combined Authority

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

Approval to repay development costs incurred by partners and to enable further development work on TCF schemes. Approval to programme management and benefits realisation allocations from the TCF programme funding.

Decision:

Resolved: That following a recommendation from the Investment Committee, the Combined Authority approves:

(a)      That £11.851m of TCF funding is approved to repay development costs incurred by partners and enable further development work on the projects within the programme to enable progression to their next Decision Points of the Assurance Framework.

(b)      That up to £3m TCF funding is approved, to re-pay spend incurred to date on early development work, previously approved from the Transport Fund Transformational Pot.

(c)      That the Combined Authority enters into Funding Agreements with partners for expenditure plus the spend incurred to date on early development work, previously approved from the Transport Fund Transformational Pot from the Transforming Cities Fund.

(d)      That the £4.930m TCF Programme Management allocation is approved to enable the Combined Authority to effectively undertake Programme Management functions for the lifetime of the TCF funded programme.

(e)      That the £1.00m TCF Benefits Realisation allocation is approved, to enable the Combined Authority to provide monitoring and evaluation of the overall programme in line with DfT expectations

Report author: Fiona Limb

Publication date: 25/06/2020

Date of decision: 25/06/2020

Decided at meeting: 25/06/2020 - West Yorkshire Combined Authority

Effective from: 03/07/2020