Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority
Mayoral combined authority; mayoral strategic authority (established status announced on 31 July 2026, not confirmed in force). Created 3 March 2017.
Constituent councils: Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, East Cambridgeshire District Council, Fenland District Council, Huntingdonshire District Council, Peterborough City Council, South Cambridgeshire District Council.
Board, and overview and scrutiny committee meetings from June 2024 to September 2026, read from the authority's own record.
- Mayor: Paul Bristow (Conservative)
- 35 meetings: 23 board, 12 overview and scrutiny
- 0 named votes recorded in the minutes
Mayors
- James Palmer (Conservative): from 4 May 2017 to 6 May 2021
- Nik Johnson (Labour): from 6 May 2021 to 1 May 2025
- Paul Bristow (Conservative): from 1 May 2025
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 23 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.
- Paul Bristow: Mayor, Conservative (as elected)
- Katie Thornburrow: Constituent member, Cambridge City Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Lucy Nethsingha: Constituent member, Cambridgeshire County Council, Liberal Democrats (home council's record)
- Anna Bailey: Constituent member, East Cambridgeshire District Council, Conservative (the authority's record)
- Samantha Hoy: Constituent member, Fenland District Council, Conservative (the authority's record)
- Chris Boden: Constituent member, Fenland District Council, Conservative (the authority's record)
- Brett Mickelburgh: Constituent member, Huntingdonshire District Council, Liberal Democrats (home council's record)
- Sarah Conboy: Constituent member, Huntingdonshire District Council, Liberal Democrats (home council's record)
- Shabina Qayyum: Constituent member, Peterborough City Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Brian Milnes: Constituent member, South Cambridgeshire District Council, Liberal Democrats (home council's record)
- Christopher Morris: Co-opted member, No party recorded (recorded)
- Name not shown (not a councillor): Co-opted member
- Name not shown (not a councillor): Co-opted member
- Name not shown (not a councillor): Appointed member (not a councillor)
- Name not shown (not a councillor): Appointed member (not a councillor)
Named votes (0)
No named votes were found in this authority's minutes.
Latest meetings
- 23 September 2026: Combined Authority Board (minutes not published yet)
- 8 September 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 15 July 2026: Combined Authority Board
- 30 June 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 3 June 2026: Combined Authority Board
- 3 June 2026: Combined Authority Board
- 18 March 2026: Combined Authority Board
- 3 March 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 28 January 2026: Combined Authority Board
- 15 January 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 18 December 2025: Combined Authority Board
- 26 November 2025: Combined Authority Board