Decision Maker: West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Approval for the scheme to progress through
Activity 2 (Strategic Outline Case)
Resolved:
That the Combined Authority
approves that, subject to the successful outcome of the bid to
DfT:
a)
the City Region Sustainable
Transport Settlement (CRSTS) programme proceeds through decision
point 2 (strategic outline case) and work commences on development
of the relevant business case for each individual scheme.
b)
an indicative approval to the total programme value
of £830,000,000 is given. The total programme cost is
£1,231,994,853.
c) approval of development and delivery costs of up to £63,455,916 for business case development and programme management costs is given as follows:
· Up to £30,311,916 for monitoring and evaluation, communications, consultation and engagement and Combined Authority programme management.
· Development costs of up to £3,000,000 to enable delivery partners to develop scheme business cases.
· Delivery and development costs of up to £30,144,000 for the development of strategic outline cases and quarter 1 and quarter 2 costs for the Highways Asset Management, Network Management and Safer Roads programme.
d)
approval is given for the delegation of authority to
the Combined Authority’s Director of Delivery, following a
recommendation from the Programme Appraisal Team, to approve
requests for business case development costs, in accordance with
the Assurance Framework.
e)
approval is given for the delegation of authority to
the Combined Authority’s Managing Director, following a
recommendation from the Programme Appraisal Team, to approve the
behaviour change programme proceeding into delivery in accordance
with the Assurance Framework from the indicative allocation of
£10,550,000.
f)
in order to
ensure that schemes can be delivered within the
tight timescales, the Combined Authority delegates authority to the
Managing Director to amend the approval and allocation of CRSTS if
the DfT award differs from £830,000,000, or if further
changes to individual allocations is required, as a result of
changes to the programme and approaches to delivery.
g) The Combined Authority enters into Funding Agreements with partners councils for expenditure, for the Highways Asset Management, Network Management and Safer Roads programme, up to the amounts shown below:
· Bradford £6,486,308
· Calderdale £3,846,476
· Kirklees £6,161,288
· Leeds £9,281,288
· Wakefield £4,368,640
h)
Future approvals are made in accordance with the
assurance pathway and approval route outlined in the submitted
report and any change requests are delegated to the Transport
Committee, which will be subject to the scheme remaining within the
tolerances outlined in the submitted report.
Report author: Freedom.Info@westyorks-ca.gov.uk
Publication date: 18/03/2022
Date of decision: 17/03/2022
Decided at meeting: 17/03/2022 - West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Effective from: 26/03/2022