South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
Mayoral combined authority; established mayoral strategic authority. Created 1 April 2014.
Constituent councils: Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Sheffield City Council.
Board, and overview and scrutiny committee meetings from April 2019 to October 2026, read from the authority's own record.
- Mayor: Oliver Coppard (Labour)
- 89 meetings: 53 board, 36 overview and scrutiny
- 0 named votes recorded in the minutes
Mayors
- Dan Jarvis (Labour): from 3 May 2018 to 5 May 2022
- Oliver Coppard (Labour): from 5 May 2022
Each with the party they were elected for. A mayor's party is shown in place of a party in control: a strategic authority isn't run by a party.
Members
Listed at the Mayoral Combined Authority Board meeting of 27 October 2026, with each member's role, and their party on the date from their home council's record where the site has it. Appointed members who aren't councillors aren't named.
- Oliver Coppard: Mayor, Labour (as elected)
- Sarah Norman: Constituent member, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, No party recorded (recorded)
- Wendy Popplewell: Constituent member, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, No party recorded (recorded)
- William Brown: Constituent member, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Reform UK (home council's record)
- Damian Allen: Constituent member, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, No party recorded (recorded)
- Ros Jones CBE: Constituent member, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, Labour (the authority's record)
- Chris Read: Constituent member, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Labour (home council's record)
- John Edwards: Constituent member, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, No party recorded (recorded)
- Fran Belbin: Constituent member, Sheffield City Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Jonthan Clifton: Constituent member, Sheffield City Council, No party recorded (recorded)
- Kate Josephs CB: Constituent member, Sheffield City Council, No party recorded (recorded)
- James Church: Non-constituent member, Labour (the authority's record)
- Victoria Cusworth: Non-constituent member, Labour (the authority's record)
Named votes (0)
No named votes were found in this authority's minutes.
Latest meetings
- 27 October 2026: Mayoral Combined Authority Board (minutes not published yet)
- 15 September 2026: Mayoral Combined Authority Board
- 8 September 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 14 July 2026: Mayoral Combined Authority Board
- 7 July 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 16 June 2026: Mayoral Combined Authority Board
- 24 March 2026: Mayoral Combined Authority Board
- 17 March 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 19 February 2026: Mayoral Combined Authority Board
- 27 January 2026: Mayoral Combined Authority Board
- 20 January 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 25 November 2025: Overview and Scrutiny Committee