Houses Unicameral Vice-chair TBD | Term limits None Seats 11 members | |
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Type Combined authority of South Yorkshire Chair Sir Steve Houghton
Since 1 April 2014 | ||
The Sheffield City Region Combined Authority is the combined authority for South Yorkshire in England. It was established by statutory instrument under the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 on 1 April 2014 with the statutory name Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield Combined Authority. It is a strategic authority with powers over transport (public transport and major trunk roads only), economic development and regeneration. The chair of the authority is Sir Steve Houghton, the leader of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.
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The combined authority does not formally cover all of the Sheffield City Region. It does not include areas of northern Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire which are part of the city region. However the district councils of those areas of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire are represented on the combined authority as non-constituent members.
History
In order to create a combined authority the local authorities in the proposed area must undertake a governance review and produce a scheme of their proposals.
Naming
As part of the consultation process for the new authority, the UK government suggested the name South Yorkshire Combined Authority, which was rejected by the authorities who favoured the name Sheffield City Region Combined Authority. The government rejected this name as "misleading and inappropriate". The order presented to parliament to create the authority referred to it as the Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield Combined Authority. The authority has since adopted the corporate name Sheffield City Region Combined Authority.
Membership
The authority consists of the four local authorities of South Yorkshire as constituent members and the other authorities in the Sheffield City Region as non-constituent partner members. Membership numbers are weighted to ensure a majority of South Yorkshire members and non-constituent members may be excluded from some votes.
The membership of the combined authority is as follows: