East Midlands Combined County Authority
Mayoral combined county authority; mayoral strategic authority (established status announced on 31 July 2026, not confirmed in force). Created 28 February 2024.
Constituent councils: Derby City Council, Derbyshire County Council, Nottingham City Council, Nottinghamshire County Council.
Board, and overview and scrutiny committee meetings from March 2024 to October 2026, read from the authority's own record.
- Mayor: Claire Ward (Labour)
- 36 meetings: 20 board, 16 overview and scrutiny
- 0 named votes recorded in the minutes
Mayors
- Claire Ward (Labour): from 2 May 2024
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 East Midlands Combined County Authority Board meeting of 12 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.
- Claire Ward: Mayor, Labour (as elected)
- Carmel Swan: Constituent member, Derby City Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Nadine Peatfield: Constituent member, Derby City Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Shiraz Khan: Constituent member, Derby City Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Alan Graves: Constituent member, Derbyshire County Council, Reform UK (home council's record)
- Stephen Reed: Constituent member, Derbyshire County Council, Reform UK (home council's record)
- David Harvey: Constituent member, Derbyshire County Council, Reform UK (home council's record)
- Ethan Radford: Constituent member, Nottingham City Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Neghat Khan: Constituent member, Nottingham City Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Dawn Justice: Constituent member, Nottinghamshire County Council, Reform UK (home council's record)
- Mick Barton: Constituent member, Nottinghamshire County Council, Reform UK (home council's record)
- Julie Leigh: Non-constituent member, Bassetlaw District Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Tricia Gilby: Non-constituent member, Chesterfield Borough Council, Labour (home council's record)
- John Clarke MBE: Non-constituent member, Gedling Borough Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Anthony McKeown: Non-constituent member, High Peak Borough Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Paul Peacock: Non-constituent member, Newark and Sherwood District Council, Labour (home council's record)
- Name not shown (not a councillor): Appointed member (not a councillor)
- Name not shown (not a councillor): Appointed member (not a councillor)
- 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
- 13 October 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 12 October 2026: East Midlands Combined County Authority Board
- 21 September 2026: East Midlands Combined County Authority Board
- 10 September 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 20 July 2026: East Midlands Combined County Authority Board
- 14 July 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 18 June 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 8 June 2026: East Midlands Combined County Authority Board
- 24 April 2026: East Midlands Combined County Authority Board (minutes not published yet)
- 9 April 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee (minutes not published yet)
- 9 March 2026: East Midlands Combined County Authority Board
- 26 January 2026: East Midlands Combined County Authority Board