BLACK COUNTRY EXECUTIVE JOINT COMMITTEE Access to Information Procedure Rules – General Exception Key Decisions Notified After Publication Deadline

BLACK COUNTRY EXECUTIVE JOINT COMMITTEE Access to Information procedure rules – General Exception Key Decisions notified after publication deadline

Project Name Key Decision to be considered (to provide adequate details for Contact Officer Date Item to Chair of relevant Overview and Scrutiny those both in and outside of the Council) be Committee informed considered

Growth Hub - Grant Funding Approval for the Accountable Body for the Black Simon Neilson 24/06/20 Dudley Council Agreement Approval 2020/21 Country Growth Hub (Walsall Council) to [email protected] - Cllr Ray Burston – 11/06/20 proceed to a Grant Agreement, with the Black Country Consortium Ltd, to deliver the Black Sandwell Council Country Growth Hub Funding for 2020/21. - Cllr Laura Rollins – 15/06/20

Walsall Council - Cllr John Murray – 15/06/20

City of Wolverhampton Council - Cllr Paul Sweet – 10/06/20

Hub to Home Transport Approval for the Accountable Body for the Alan Lunt 25/09/19 Dudley Council Innovation Centre and Test Local Growth Deal programme (Walsall [email protected] - Cllr Nicola Richards – 28-8-19 Track Project: Very Light Rail Council) to proceed to enter into a Grant and Autonomous Agreement and/or other appropriate Stuart Everton Sandwell Council Technologies – Test Track documentation, with Dudley Council to [email protected] - Cllr Laura Rollins – 29-8-19 Project Grant Agreement deliver the Local Growth Deal funded elements ov.uk of the Very Light Rail Test Track Project. Walsall Council - Cllr Louise Harrison – 29-8-19 Notes that there is work currently ongoing with Dudley Council, the BC LEP and the City of Wolverhampton Council Accountable Body, to validate the available - Cllr Paul Sweet – 3-9-19 funds in the Black Country Enterprise Zone, to fund the next phases of the project which will include the Innovation Centre.

Notes that at its meeting on 20 August 2019, that The Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership Board approved, subject to the

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identification of sufficient funds in the Black Country Enterprise Zone Fund, that this be used to fund the Innovation Centre element of the project, in accordance with the provisions of the Local Assurance Framework.

Hub to Home Transport Approval for the Growth Deal (Walsall Council) Simon Neilson 31/07/19 Dudley Council Innovation Centre and Test to proceed to terminate the existing Grant [email protected] - Cllr N Richards – 8-7-19 Track Project: Very Light Rail Agreement with Dudley Council to deliver and Autonomous the Local Growth Fund (LGF) funded elements Mark Lavender Sandwell Council Technologies of the Hub to Home Transport Innovation [email protected] – Cllr Laura Rollins – 15-7-19 Private Session - Not for Centre and Test Track Project: Very Light Rail publication by virtue of and Autonomous Technologies project and Walsall Council paragraph 3 of Schedule instructs the Accountable Body (Walsall Alan Lunt – Cllr Louise Harrison – 10-7-19 12(A) of the Local Council) to inform Dudley Council of the [email protected] Government Act 1972 (as decision. City of Wolverhampton Council amended) – Cllr Paul Sweet – 15-7-19 Approval for the Accountable Body for the Growth Deal (Walsall Council) to proceed to enter into the appropriate Grant Agreement with Dudley Council to deliver the Local Growth Fund (LGF) funded elements of the Hub to Home Transport Innovation Centre and Test Track Project: Very Light Rail and Autonomous Technologies project - Development Phase, totalling £1,145,747, for works carried out during the 2017/18 and 2018/19 LGF programme periods.

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A34 Corridor Development Approval for the Accountable Body for the Simon Neilson 31/07/19 Dudley Council Funding Growth Deal (Walsall Council) to proceed to [email protected] – Cllr N Richards – 8-7-19 terminate the existing Grant Agreement of £70,000 for the A34 Corridor Development Mark Lavender Sandwell Council Funding project from within the Growth Deal [email protected] – Cllr Laura Rollins – 8-7-19 Programme. Stuart Everton Walsall Council [email protected] – Cllr Louise Harrison – 11-7-19 ov.uk City of Wolverhampton Council – Cllr Paul Sweet – 11-7-19 I9 (Blcock 9) Wolverhampton Approval for the Accountable Body for the Richard Lawrence 17/04/19 Dudley Council Project Growth Deal (Walsall Council) to proceed to a Richard.Lawrence@wolverhampt – Cllr Crumpton – 26-3-19 Grant Agreement with ION Projects Limited on.gov.uk (IPL), to deliver the Local Growth Fund (LGF), Sandwell Council funded elements of the i9 (Block 9) Cllr Laura Rollins – 19-3-19 Wolverhampton project – with delivery to Cllr Peter Hughes – 26-3-19 commence in the 2018/19 financial year.

Approval for the Accountable Body for the Walsall Council Growth Deal (Walsall Council) to proceed to Cllr Ian Shires – 18-3-19 amending the existing Grant Agreement with ION Projects Limited (IPL), to deliver the Wolverhampton Council Local Growth Fund (LGF), funded elements of Cllr Stephen Simkins – 18-3-19 the i9 (Block 9) Wolverhampton project – with delivery to commence in the 2018/19 financial year.

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