North East Combined Authority
Mayoral combined authority; established mayoral strategic authority. Created 7 May 2024.
Constituent councils: Durham County Council (from 7 May 2024), Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (from 7 May 2024), Newcastle City Council (from 7 May 2024), North Tyneside Council (from 7 May 2024), Northumberland County Council (from 7 May 2024), South Tyneside Council (from 7 May 2024), Sunderland City Council (from 7 May 2024).
Board, and overview and scrutiny committee meetings from May 2024 to October 2026, read from the authority's own record.
- Mayor: Kim McGuinness (Labour)
- 35 meetings: 18 board, 17 overview and scrutiny
- 0 named votes recorded in the minutes
Mayors
- Kim McGuinness (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 Cabinet 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.
- Kim McGuinness: Mayor, Labour (as elected)
- Andrew Husband: Non-constituent member, Reform UK (the authority's record)
- Carl Johnson: Non-constituent member, Labour (the authority's record)
- Christopher Eynon: Non-constituent member, Reform UK (the authority's record)
- Colin Ferguson: Non-constituent member, Liberal Democrats (the authority's record)
- Glen Sanderson: Non-constituent member, Conservative (the authority's record)
- Nick Allan: Non-constituent member, Reform UK (the authority's record)
- Paul Mackings: Non-constituent member, Reform UK (the authority's record)
- Susan Sybenga: Non-constituent member, Reform UK (the authority's record)
- Karen Clark: Non-constituent member, Labour (the authority's record)
- Name not shown (not a councillor): Co-opted member
- 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
- 27 October 2026: Cabinet (minutes not published yet)
- 20 October 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee (minutes not published yet)
- 22 September 2026: Cabinet
- 8 September 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 21 July 2026: Cabinet
- 7 July 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 9 June 2026: Cabinet
- 20 March 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee (minutes not published yet)
- 17 March 2026: Cabinet
- 10 February 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- 3 February 2026: Cabinet
- 13 January 2026: Overview and Scrutiny Committee (minutes not published yet)