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Department for Transport consultation on WebTAG
Meeting: 08/12/2016 - Greater Cambridge Partnership Executive Board (Item 11)
11 Department for Transport consultation on WebTAG 
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To consider the attached report.
Decision:
The Executive Board AGREED
I. To submit a combined City Deal response to this consultation, in addition to responses that the partner organisations may wish to make individually.
II. That the City Deal response should be framed around the principles set out in paragraph 13.
III. To delegate to the City Deal Director, in consultation with the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Executive Board and Cambridgeshire County Council’s Executive Director: Economy, Transport and Environment, responsibility for submitting a full response to this consultation in accordance with these agreed principles.
Minutes:
Mike Salter, Transport Strategy Manager, presented this report which asked the Executive Board to agree principles to be incorporated into a combined City Deal response to the Department of Transport’s consultation on proposed changes to the estimation of wider economic impacts in transport appraisal guidance.
The Executive Board AGREED
I. To submit a combined City Deal response to this consultation, in addition to responses that the partner organisations may wish to make individually.
II. That the City Deal response should be framed around the principles set out in paragraph 13.
III. To delegate to the City Deal Director, in consultation with the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Executive Board and Cambridgeshire County Council’s Executive Director: Economy, Transport and Environment, responsibility for submitting a full response to this consultation in accordance with these agreed principles.
Meeting: 01/12/2016 - Greater Cambridge Partnership Joint Assembly (Item 10)
10 Department for Transport consultation on WebTAG PDF 143 KB
To consider the attached report.
Decision:
The Joint Assembly RECOMMENDED that the Executive Board:
(a) Agrees to submit a City Deal response to this consultation, in addition to the responses that the partner organisations may wish to make individually.
(b) Agrees that the City Deal response should be framed around the principles set out in paragraph 13 of the report.
(c) Delegates to the City Deal Programme Director, in consultation with the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board and Cambridgeshire County Council’s Executive Director of Economy, Transport and Environment, responsibility for submitting a full response to this consultation in accordance with these agreed principles.
Minutes:
The Joint Assembly considered a report which set out the principles to be incorporated into a combined City Deal response to the Department for Transport’s consultation on proposed changes to the estimation of wider economic impacts in transport appraisal guidance.
It was unanimously agreed that the word ‘combined’ should be removed from the recommendation contained within the report, to remove any potential confusion relating to Combined Authorities.
The Joint Assembly RECOMMENDED that the Executive Board:
(a) Agrees to submit a City Deal response to this consultation, in addition to the responses that the partner organisations may wish to make individually.
(b) Agrees that the City Deal response should be framed around the principles set out in paragraph 13 of the report.
(c) Delegates to the City Deal Programme Director, in consultation with the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board and Cambridgeshire County Council’s Executive Director of Economy, Transport and Environment, responsibility for submitting a full response to this consultation in accordance with these agreed principles.