Venue: City Exchange, 2nd Floor, 11 Albion Street, Leeds, LS1 5ES
Contact: Email: scrutiny@westyorks-ca.gov.uk
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Welcome and apologies for absence Minutes: Attendees (10/11): Bob Felstead, Zafar Iqbal, Stephen Baines (DC), Audrey Smith, Richard Smith (C), Harpreet Uppal, Kayleigh Brooks, Jonathan Bentley, Dawn Collins, Samantha Harvey
Apologies (5): Olivia Rowley, Graham Isherwood, Andrew Hollyer, Aneela Ahmed, Manisha Kaushik.
Officers: Brian Archer, Ian Smyth, Khaled Berroum
Skipped items 2 and 3 as the meeting was inquorate.
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Scrutiny and governance arrangements PDF 333 KB Additional documents:
Minutes:
In questions and discussions, members sought clarification on a number of things including:
How the Mayors Question Time session in March 2022 would be approached:
How cross-cutting ‘overall’ issues would handled by the three co-equal scrutiny committees:
The relationship between the LEP and Combined Authority:
The LEP brand is used to engage with businesses and the private sector and WYCA’s Metro brand is used to engage with transport users and sector. |
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Chairs comments and update Minutes: The Chair introduced himself and explained that:
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Economy functions & priorities overview PDF 596 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: Members received a high-level overview of the Economic Services delivered by the Combined Authority as well as an outline of economic policy development and current priorities and strategies.
Questions and discussion centred around:
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Economy Scrutiny Work Programme PDF 179 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: The Chair and members discussed a number of principles and approaches to work programming, topic selection and future meetings – including:
Members’ discussion, questions and suggestions included the following:
COVID-19 recovery: economic growth, job creation, skills, and other opportunities:
1. Use of data / intelligence: what economic/social data does the CA analyse and how does it influence policy, interventions and activity? E.g. logic behind the number for jobs created in the Mayors Pledge: is that based on data/need, delivery capacity or funding limits? 2. Growth as a priority: How is ‘high growth’ defined? What does success look like? How are competing priorities handled? E.g. between high growth vs carbon emission reduction or productivity efficiency vs job creation? E.g. 2 changed focus to create green jobs, not just jobs. 3. Strengths & assets: Unique regional assets/opportunities. Recovery plan focuses on productivity and inclusive growth etc as pre-pandemic but does the region have as a ‘growth engine’ any particular strengths that can be developed and utilised to drive growth? What are the region’s future proof assets/opportunities? 4. Weaknesses & gaps: What gaps are there in the current recover/growth strategy? what mitigations could be employed to counter them? 5. Impact of CA: What levers does the CA have to make an impact on the economy? 6. Outputs & additionality: Does the CA achieve its targets and ROI? Does the CA’s activity/interventions constitute additionality that businesses wouldn’t have done without it? 7. Skills strategy – short and long term: How can WYCA help plug short term demands such as shortages in HGV drivers, agricultural workers, service, retail, hospitality and security staff? How does it calculate and factor demands of local high growth/demand sectors and employers etc into AEB / skills strategy? 8. Other opportunities from pandemic: Use of entrepreneurship – which has increased during pandemic – as an alternate ‘job creation’ effort. How are opportunities, such as entrepreneurship etc, promoted ... view the full minutes text for item 5. |
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Date of the next meeting - 17 November 2021 |