Decision details

(1)       The City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement 1 Year One delivery progress was noted.

(2)       It was noted that the financial strategy relevant to the WMCA’s transport capital pressure details were covered in the private part of the meeting agenda.

(3)       The proposal to formally re-base the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement 1 programme, allowing for over-programming, ready for further consideration by the WMCA Board on 15 September 2023, working with all scheme promoters to ensure realism over scheme costs, spending and delivery profiles for all schemes, in response to the Department for Transport’s ‘once in a programme’ opportunity to re-baseline the programme, was agreed.

(4)       The headlines of the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement 1 Memorandum of Understanding updated Terms and Conditions, that the s151 Officer was required to sign-off, was noted.

(5)       The initial response from the Department for Transport regarding the region’s change control request to move a previously funded Transforming Cities Fund scheme into the core City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement 1 funding allocation was noted, subject to the clarification of what schemes would be deferred to accommodate it.

(6)       The need for all scheme promoters to provide sufficient and timely information in their quarterly and annual returns to enable the WMCA to fulfil its reporting obligations back to the Department for Transport, without which future annual payments of City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement grant from the Department for Transport could be restricted, was noted.