Agenda

In the event of a fire, please await direction from venue staff who will help assist with the evacuation.   Please do not return to the building until instructed to do so by the fire warden(s).

To receive any apologies for absence from Members.

Members who consider that they have an interest to declare are asked to: a) State the item number in which they have an interest, b) The nature of the interest, c) Whether the interest is a disclosable pecuniary interest, non-disclosable pecuniary interest or non-pecuniary interest. Any Member who is unsure about the above should seek advice from the Monitoring Officer prior to the meeting in order to expedite matters at the meeting itself.

To consider and approve the minutes from the meetings held on 14 June 2022 (adjourned from 26 May 2022), 23 September 2022 and 14 October 2022 West of England Combined Authority Committee Meetings.

To receive announcements from the Chair of the West of England Combined Authority.

WRITTEN PUBLIC QUESTIONS (written procedure)

1. Any member of the public can submit a maximum of two written questions in advance of this meeting.

2. The deadline for the submission of questions is 5.00 pm, at least 3 clear working days ahead of a meeting. For this meeting, the deadline for questions is 5.00 pm on Monday 12 December 2022.

3. Questions should be addressed to the Chair of the meeting and e-mailed to democratic.services@westofengland-ca.gov.uk

4. Under the direction of the Chair, wherever possible, written replies to questions will be sent to questioners by the end of the working day prior to the meeting.

5. Please note - under the Combined Authority’s committee procedures, there is no opportunity for oral supplementary questions to be asked at committee meetings.

6. The written questions and replies will be circulated to committee members in advance of the meeting and published on the Combined Authority website.

PUBLIC STATEMENTS

1. Any member of the public may submit a written statement (or petition) to this meeting.

2. Please note that one statement per individual is permitted.

3. Statements must be submitted in writing and received by the deadline of 12 noon on the working day before the meeting. For this meeting, the deadline for statements is 12 noon on Thursday 15 December 2022. Statements should be emailed to democratic.services@westofengland-ca.gov.uk

4. Statements will be listed for the meeting in the order of receipt. All statements will be sent to committee members in advance of the meeting and published on the Combined Authority website.

5. Please note:

If any member of the public wishes to attend the meeting to orally present their statement, they are asked please to notify the Combined Authority’s Democratic Services team of this at the point when their statement is submitted and by 12 noon on the working day before the meeting at the very latest.

For those presenting their statements at the meeting, up to 3 minutes ‘speaking time’ is permitted for each statement. The total time available for the public session at this meeting is 30 minutes.

The Chair of the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership to be invited to address the meeting.

The Chair of the Authority’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee to present the comments of that Committee.

This report sets out the overall approach to buses bringing together supported bus services, funded by the Transport Levy.

A decision needs to be made on supported bus services, funded by the Transport Levy, to take effect from Sunday 2 April 2023 when the current contracts for supported bus services are due to expire.

The purpose of this report is to request delegations to the Chief Executives in consultation with the Programme Review Board to utilise the underspend identified on the capital Transforming Cities Fund (TCF) which concludes in March 2023.  It is also to propose the implementation of lessons learnt against the remaining Infrastructure Portfolio of works.

The purpose of this report is to confirm the outcome of the PSAA procurement. Grant Thornton was successful in winning a contract in the procurement, and PSAA are appointing this firm as the auditor of West of England Combined Authority for five years from 2023/24.