Agenda

The Chair to Welcome Members and the public to the meeting.

Lead: Chair

Members are required to declare any personal, prejudicial or disclosable pecuniary interest they may have relating to items on the agenda and state the nature of such interest.

Lead: Chair

To consider and note the minutes of the previous meeting as a correct record and to consider any requests for updates on matters contained therein.

Lead: Chair

Members to be provided with an overview of rail issues in the North and to consider recommendations for the improvement of services.

Lead: David Hoggarth

To receive an update on rail operational matters and updates from the operators and Network Rail.

Lead: Gary Bogan

To consider the report of the Interim Heaad of Investment and Planning and to receive an update on readiness for the December 2022 timetable change and progress with infrastructure development.

Lead: Chris Mason

To consider the report of the Partnership and Programme Manager. To provide an update on the revised East Coast Mainline timetable proposal, progress with development of infrastructure and to note the position on the Leeds Area Study.

Lead: Caroline Young

To consider the update of the Rail Strategy Manager on the work undertaken by Transport for the North to develop a Reliability & Resilience Delivery Plan, setting out short-term infrastructure enhancements to improve the resilience of the network.

Lead: David Worsley

To resolve that the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of Items X on the grounds that:

(1)It is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present during such item(s), confidential information as defined in S100A(2) of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) would be disclosed to them in breach of the obligation of confidence; and/or

(2)it / they involve(s) the likely disclosure of exempt information as set out in the Paragraphs [listed below] of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

To consider and note the minutes of the previous meeting as a correct record and to consider any requests for updates on matters contained therein.

Lead: Chair

To consider the report of the Rail North Partnership Director.

Lead: Gary Bogan