Rail North Committee (Transport for the North) 14th July 2020
Channel: John Brace
Date: 2020-07-15

Rail North Committee (Transport for the North) 14th July 2020

Uploaded by John Brace https://johnbrace.com/ from the time shifted version by Transport for the North (originally broadcast on 14th July 2020 at 11.00 am).

Agenda and reports can be found on Transport for the North's website here https://transportforthenorth.com/wp-content/uploads/Rail-North-Committee-July-14-Public-Papers.pdf . 

1.0 Welcome and Apologies 0:01

2.0 Declarations of Interest 0:28

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.

3.0 Minutes of the Previous Meeting 1:04

To consider the approval and signature of the minutes of the previous meeting as a correct record and to consider any requests for updates on matters contained therein.

4.0 Rail Operations and Covid-19 Recovery 1:23

To consider/discuss a report by the Rail Programme Manager updates on current rail operations and the recovery from the Covid-19 position.

5.0 Blake-Jones Review Update 27:30

To consider a report by the Strategic Rail Advisor.

6.0 Rail Reform and Devolution 33:33
To consider/discuss a report by the Strategic Rail Advisor.

7.0 Date of Next Meeting plus forthcoming meetings 39:03

To confirm the date of the next meeting:
 Wednesday 21 Oct 2020

To note forthcoming dates for 2020/21:
 Tuesday 12 Jan 2021
 Wednesday 17 March 2021

8.0 Exclusion of the Press and Public 39:47
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.