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

Lead: Chair

To appoint a Chair of the Rail North Committee and consider a change to the membership of Rail North Partnership Board.

Lead: Julie Openshaw

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

Lead: Gary Bogan

To consider the early indications of how the revised service pattern is performing.  To provide an update on the progress of infrastructure development.

Lead: Charlie French

To consider the development work done by Transport for the North and Partners to update the “Blueprint” setting out development plans for the northern section of the East Coast Main Line.

Lead: Jonathan Brown

To consider the overview of Transport for the North’s Strategic Rail Report.

Lead: David Worsley

To seek approval to establish a North-West Regional Business Unit.

Lead: David Hoggarth

To consider the update on the Strategic Rail elements of the draft Transport for the North Business Plan 2023/24 and the Department for Transport’s funding allocation 2023/24 and 2024/25. To provide an update on the 2023/24 Member Contribution payment.

Lead: Caroline Young

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

Lead: Chair

To provide an update on the Rail Operator business plans.

Lead: Gary Bogan