Agenda

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

Lead: Chair

Members to appoint a Chair and a Majority and Minority Party Vice Chair to the Rail North Committee.

Lead:  Julie Openshaw

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 approve 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 overview of the process for shaping train operator business plans for the 2024/25 financial year.

Lead: David Hoggarth

To consider the update on the development of infrastructure across the rail network in the North, and with it associated train service enhancements and changes.

Lead: Charlie French

To consider the update on operational rail matters.

Lead: Gary Bogan

The date and time of the next meeting – Wednesday 13 September 2023 11.00am via Teams

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