Monday, 30 April 2018 10:00a.m – 12:00p.m. AGENDA Open to Public and Press Number Agenda ...

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by  Rowe Michelle

Monday, 30 April 2018
10:00a.m – 12:00p.m.
Location:, The Hall, Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Enterprise
Partnership, The Incubator, Alconbury Weald Enterprise Campus, Alconbury
Weald, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE28 4WX

AGENDA

Open to Public and Press
Number Agenda Item Chair/ Paper Pages
Lead Member/ s
Chief Officer
1. Part 1 – Governance Items
1.1. Interim Membership of Business Legal Counsel Oral
Board and Appointment of Interim and Monitoring

Chair and Vice Chair Officer
1.2. Apologies and Declarations of Chair Oral -
Interests

1.3. Minutes of Shadow Board Chair Yes
meeting –22 March 2018
1.4. Proposals for Membership of Legal Counsel Yes
Business Board and Achieving and Monitoring
Partnership Working with the Officer
Combined Authority Board

1.5. Interim Terms of Reference & Legal Counsel Yes
Constitutional Arrangements and Monitoring
Officer

1.6. Interim Assurance Framework Chief Executive Yes
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Number Agenda Item Chair/ Paper Pages
Lead Member/ s
Chief Officer
1.7. Recruitment of Private Sector Legal Counsel Yes
Board Members and Monitoring
Officer

1.8. Ratify Decisions taken By Legal Counsel Yes
Shadow Business Board

1.9. Forward Plan and Dates of Chair Yes
Future Meetings

2. Part 2 –Strategy/Policy

2.1. Industrial Strategy – Key Interim Director Yes
Messages of Business and
Skills
2.2. Government Economic Funding – Interim Director Yes
Key Elements of Business and
Skills

3. Part 3 – Programmes,
Investments and Budgets
3.1. Growth Deal -Programme Update Interim Director Yes
and New Investments of Business and
Skills

3.2. Financial Reporting Discussion Interim Chief
Paper Finance Officer
for Combined
Authority

4. Part 4 – Date of next meeting
4.1 Date:, 25 June 2018 2018 – Chair oral -
2.30pm to 4.30pm

Membership
The Business Board currently comprises the following members:
2
Private Sector Members
Professor Andy Neely Cambridge University

Public Sector members
Councillors:
James Palmer Mayor, Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough Combined
Authority
Charles Roberts Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough Combined
Authority
Cllr Lance Stanbury Forest Heath District Council /
West Suffolk Council
Cllr Wayne Fitzgerald Peterborough City Council

Substitute members:
Councillors

The Business Board is committed to open government and members of the public are welcome to
attend business board meetings. It supports the principle of transparency and encourages filming,
recording and taking photographs at meetings that are open to the public. It also welcomes the use of
social networking and micro-blogging websites (such as Twitter and Facebook) to communicate with
people about what is happening, as it happens.
For more information about this meeting, please contact Darren Edey at the Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough Combined Authority on 01480277180 or email
[email protected].

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BUSINESS BOARD AGENDA ITEM No: 1.1

30 APRIL 2018 PUBLIC REPORT

INTERIM MEMBERSHIP OF BUSINESS BOARD AND APPOINTMENT OF
INTERIM CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR

1. PURPOSE

1.1. The Business Board are asked to formally agree the interim membership of the
Business Board for recommendation to the Combined Authority Board and to
appoint a Chair and Vice Chair.

DECISION REQUIRED

Lead Member: C ouncillor Charles Roberts, Chair of the
Business Board and Economic Growth
Portfolio Holder of the Combined Authority
Lead Officer: Kim Sawyer, Legal Counsel and Monitoring
Officer
Forward Plan Ref: N/A Key Decision: No
Voting arrangements
The Business Board is recommended to :
Simple majority of all
(a) Agree the interim membership of the Business Members
Board as follows:
1) Two private sector members
2) Four public sector members

(b) Subject to (a) above,
1) to appoint Professor Andy Neely as a private
sector member
2) to appoint the following as public sector
members:
a. James Palmer, Mayor of the Combined
Authority
b. Councillor Charles Roberts
c. Councillor Lance Stanbury
d. Councillor Wayne Fitzgerald
(c) Appoint an interim Chair and Vice Chair of the
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Business Board.

The Combined Authority Board will be asked to ratify the
decisions of the Business Board.

2. BACKGROUND

2.1. The shadow board at its earlier meeting agreed the interim membership should
be
(a) two private sector and
(b) two public sector.

2.2. It also appointed Councillor Roberts, Economic Growth Portfolio Holder of the
Combined Authority as Chair,

2.3. It was recognised that due to the timeframes involved, and the need to ensure
the Business Board is constituted for 1st April, it would not be feasible to
undertake a formal recruitment exercise, and as such it would be necessary to
simply appoint short term representatives. In doing so, it was recognised that:
a) Where possible, members of the former GCGPEP should not be appointed
to the Shadow Board, to avoid any conflict between their role on the existing
LEP;
b) It may be necessary for the shadow board members to “default” on to the
new Business Board itself, but in the longer term, they would need to formally
apply in the same way as other board members.
2.4. The Board are asked to agree an interim membership as follows
Two Private Sector Professor Andy Pro-Vice Cambridge University
Members Neely Chancellor,
Enterprise and
Business
Relations
To be confirmed
Four Public Sector James Palmer Mayor Cambridgeshire and
Members Peterborough
Combined Authority
Councillor Economic Growth Cambridgeshire and
Charles Roberts Portfolio Holder Peterborough
Combined Authority
Councillor Lance Cabinet Member Forest Heath District
Stanbury for Planning & Council / West
Growth Suffolk Council

Councillor Wayne Deputy Leader Peterborough City
Fitzgerald, Council

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2.5. The membership would be reviewed following the conclusion of the recruitment
of the private sector members: The Board are asked to appoint a chair and vice
chair from the membership of the Business Board.

3. FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

3.1. There are no financial implications

4. LEGAL IMPLICATIONS

4.1. The Devolution Deal stated that the Mayor will be a member of the LEP,
alongside the other members of the Combined Authority, recognising the
importance of the LEP role and the private sector in growth strategies or
delivery.(Page 7).

5. SIGNIFICANT IMPLICATIONS

5.1 None at this stage

6. APPENDICES

6.1. None

Source Documents

List background papers:
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Devolution Deal
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachme
nt_data/file/600239/Cambridgeshire_and_Peterborough_Devolution_Deal.pdf

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AGENDA ITEM No: 1.3

Minutes of the meeting of the Shadow Business Board
22 March 2018

Present:
Councillor Charles Roberts (Chair)
Councillor Lance Stanbury
Councillor Wayne Fitzgerald
Professor Andy Neely

In Attendence:
Martin Whitely, John Hill, Kim Sawyer, Debbie Forde, Leah Mickleborough, Darren
Eadey

Cllr Charles Roberts welcomed to everyone to the meeting of the business board.
Introductions were made by all present in the room.

Minutes of the previous meeting

The minutes of the meeting on 8 March were agreed. These have been sent to BEIS
who have provided positive feedback on the direction of travel for the new Business
Board.

Terms of Reference for the Shadow Board

As the first meeting with the full Shadow Board members present, the Chairman
recapped on the current progress made towards setting up a new organisation to
replace the LEP. The Shadow Board is intended to be short lived, and disbanded
during the summer. The terms of reference, which were attached to the agenda, were
intended to serve until September, in order to get the full Board operational. Work had
continued to shut down the existing LEP. Once LEP functions transfer to the Combined
Authority (as the accountable body) on 1 April, work will be undertaken to recruit
permanent board members. Work has been started to understand decision making
processes and the relationship with the Combined Authority under the new Board.

It was emphasised that more work needs to be undertaken to understand how the
relationship will work in those areas which fall under the scope of the current LEP, but
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sit outside the Combined Authority geography. The Shadow Board would work to scope
the form of this relationship in future.

The proposed structure for the new Board had been developed internally, although
regard had been given to other areas with a Combined Authority and LEP. It was
recognised that the governance would need to evolve as the Board developed, and
importantly look and feel different to the current LEP. The government were still
considering the future of LEPs although had concluded that thy are still a good vehicle
for engaging businesses in decision making, and co-ordinate activity around local
industrial strategies; the Board would need to be compliant with the government's
current guidance as a minimum. The government should be seen not simply as a
funder of activity in the local area and instead as an investor, with a stake in
achievements.

A question was asked regarding the accountability of the proposed structure. It was
noted that the business board would have less decision making responsibility; they
would advise and recommend, but decisions would be made through the combined
authority. Accountability would come through the existing scrutiny functions of the
Combined Authority.

Vision for the new Board and working arrangements with the Combined Authority

Andy Neeley declared a non-pecuniary interest as a member of the Independent
Economic Commission and continued to take part in discussion and voting.

It was agreed that the KPI for inward investment opportunities, and scale-ups needed to
be separated into two due to their differing nature.

The Board recognised the need to move at pace to take advantage of emerging
opportunities, and participate in forthcoming industrial strategy challenge funded. It was
noted that the Combined Authority has been engaging with BEIS about forthcoming
sector deals and the need to be involved with these.

The local industrial strategy is being developed by the Independent Economic
Commission, although funded primarily by the Combined Authority. Place based growth
strategies would support delivery of the overall industrial strategy, which would be a
strong opportunity to involve those areas not in the Combined Authority and also ensure
that each place had a space in discussions, avoiding focus on any one area.

It was agreed that an overview of emerging funding opportunities and how these should
be targeted should be added to the forward plan, and the government should be invited
to come to the Board in April to discuss sector deals.

Register of Interests and Conflicts policy

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The register of interests and conflicts policy was agreed. Copies of the register of
interest would be sent to shadow board members to complete.

Accountable Body Agreement

The Shadow Board considered a report that will be presented to the Combined
Authority Board on 28 March, dealing with the transfer of accountable body functions
from Cambridgeshire County Council to the Combined Authority.

Although the financial elements of the report outline what is being transferred to the
Combined Authority, there will be additional funding received for 2018/19, which will
include an additional £14m of funding. In total, approximately £42m of funding will
transfer to the Combined Authority.

Due to the challenges faced by the existing LEP, it had not been possible to allocate
specific funds, although the majority of the £42m was earmarked to programmes.
Whilst the Board are keen to ensure that money is channelled to support growth, it was
recognised this needs to be balanced in ensuring funds are best employed to meet local
need and possibly leverage additional funding into the area.

It was agreed that a report should be presented to the Board confirming what
programmes funding is currently allocated to.

Membership of the Business Board

The business board is intended as a voice for business representatives, to advise on
activity of the Combined Authority, which consisted of public sector representatives.
With that in mind, it had been proposed the only public sector representatives on the
board would be the mayor and economic growth portfolio holder, creating a clear divide
between the opinions of business interests and of political aims.

Discussion took place on the merits of the structure, and the means of involving non-
Combined Authority members within it. Place plans for growth may assist, and there is
also the potential of assessing the nature of associate membership. More generally,
processes need to be in place to resolve disputes and provide channels for those who
are unhappy with decisions made. Those authorities who became associate members
of the Combined Authority would be able to influence discussions at the Combined
Authority Cabinet, and there is a need to ensure there is strong channels of
communication across Chief Executives and Leaders.

The board recognised the need to ensure the "right" representatives were appointed to
the Board; they need to have the right skillsets, and be genuinely representative of their
sector. Representatives would be expected to actively engage with their sectors on
matters discussed by the Board. It is intended that the Chair of the Business Board
would participate in Combined Authority discussions.

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Views were sought on the skills required for Board members, as follows:
• Ability to think across sector, rather than geographic thinking
• Confidence of the local business community
• Desirable that they are credible with government
• Strong Sense of collective responsibility, active promoters of the board's position
• Networkers - understand what is occuring in their sector and the wider economy
• Balance - some from large, well established firms, but also those that can
represent the smaller, entrepreneurial firms.

Board remuneration was discussed. It was recognised this is equivalent to a non-
executive role, and remuneration can assist in attracting candidates, recognising you
value their role and input. However, any remuneration would need to be proportionate
and appropriate. Term limits for board members also need to be considered, alongside
a rotation system.

Government Industrial Strategy

The board noted the strategy.

Forward Plan

Board members were requested to review the forward plan. It was noted the first formal
meeting would take place at the end of April; with a potential all Council / Chief
Executive meeting to take place on 16 April to discuss the new arrangements.

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