Resolved - In respect of West Yorkshire and York Broadband Infrastructure Programme (activity 6 delivery) change request:
That following a recommendation from the Investment Committee, the Combined Authority approves:
(a) The change request to the West Yorkshire and York Broadband Infrastructure Programme as set out in the submitted report.
(b) Expenditure of the increase in external funding from £7.25million to £17.6797million to be funded from BDUK, ERDF, BET and British Telecom contract 1 and districts as detailed in the submitted report, in order to fund contract 2 deployment of the West Yorkshire and York Broadband Programme.
(c) That the Combined Authority enters into the variation to funding agreement between the Combined Authority and the MHCLG covering funding from ERDF (current award is £7,299,918) for the broadband programme.
(d) That authority is delegated to the Combined Authority’s Managing Director to approve any future grant variation agreements which are the result of financial re-profiling and are within the total ERDF funding envelope of £7,229,918.