West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Mayoral combined authority; established mayoral strategic authority. Created 1 April 2014.
Constituent councils: City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, Kirklees Council, Leeds City Council, Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.
Non-constituent councils: City of York Council.
Board, and overview and scrutiny committee meetings from May 2018 to October 2026, read from the authority's own record.
- Mayor: Tracy Brabin (Labour)
- 145 meetings: 71 board, 74 overview and scrutiny
- 1 named vote recorded in the minutes
Mayors
- Tracy Brabin (Labour): from 6 May 2021
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 Combined Authority Board meeting of 24 September 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.
- Tracy Brabin: Mayor, Labour (as elected)
- Daniel Sutherland: Constituent member, Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, Reform UK (home council's record)
- Sarah Wood: Constituent member, Kirklees Council, Reform UK (home council's record)
- James Lewis: Constituent member, Leeds City Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Karl Johnson: Constituent member, Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, Reform UK (home council's record)
- Claire Douglas: Non-constituent member, City of York Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Alan Lamb: Non-constituent member, Conservative (the authority's record)
- Andrew Cooper: Non-constituent member, Green (the authority's record)
- Adam Wilkinson: Non-constituent member, Labour (the authority's record)
- Name not shown (not a councillor): Appointed member (not a councillor)
- Andrew Judson: Substitute, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Reform UK (home council's record)
Named votes (1)
- Business Planning and Budget 2024/25: Board, 1 February 2024, a named vote, carried. For 0, Against 1, Abstained 1.
Latest meetings
- 29 October 2026: Combined Authority Board (minutes not published yet)
- 23 October 2026: Scrutiny Committee (minutes not published yet)
- 24 September 2026: Combined Authority Board
- 18 September 2026: Scrutiny Committee
- 30 July 2026: Combined Authority Board
- 17 July 2026: Scrutiny Committee (minutes not published yet)
- 25 June 2026: Combined Authority Board
- 28 May 2026: Combined Authority Board (minutes not published yet)
- 13 March 2026: Scrutiny Committee
- 12 March 2026: Combined Authority Board
- 20 February 2026: Scrutiny Committee
- 23 January 2026: Scrutiny Committee