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Strategic Partnership Agreement - Rutland County Council and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority

Meeting: 20/08/2019 - Cabinet (Item 180)

180 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT - RUTLAND COUNTY COUNCIL AND CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH COMBINED AUTHORITY pdf icon PDF 63 KB

(KEY DECISION)

 

Report No.119/2019

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Report no.119/2019 was received from the Chief Executive who introduced the report.  The purpose of the report was to seek cabinet approval for the Strategic Partnership Agreement with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.

 

During discussion the following points were noted:

 

·         The Strategic Partnership Agreement would allow the Council to continue working with the Combined Authority as much as they could if they were still members of the Greater Cambridgeshire and Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership (GCGPLEP).

·         The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) had recommended the approach of a partnership agreement although any agreement would be subject to the Combined Authority’s own governance procedures.

·         Mr A Walters asked about any residual funding for Rutland from the former LEP but was informed that any monies could only be accessed by going through a bidding process. The Strategic Partnership Agreement would put in place a structure that would allow the Council to bid for project funding in the future.

·         Of all of the authorities in the former GCGPLEP Rutland County Council had been the most successful in bidding for LEADER funding.

·         BEIS were supportive of the partnership agreement approach with the Combined Authority but were not party to it and therefore there could still be a process for the Council to decide whether it wanted to join the Lincolnshire LEP.

·         If RCC were to move to the Lincolnshire LEP at a later date, the detail on any already allocated money and whether it moved with RCC or not would need to be discussed and decided at the point of exit.

 

DECISIONS

 

Cabinet:

 

1.    AUTHORISED the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Leader, to enter into the Strategic Partnership Agreement.

 

2.    DELEGATED to the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Leader, authority to make any amendments necessary to finalise the agreement with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.

 

Reasons for the decisions

 

The Agreement as proposed will facilitate partnership working with the CPCA who are a key partner in the securing of investment both sub-regionally and from central government.