On 2 May 2024, Tracy Brabin was re-elected as Mayor of West Yorkshire after a first term which began in 2021. With specific powers on transport, housing, regeneration, finance and policing, the Mayor works with the Mayoral Combined Authority, council leaders, business representatives and partners for the benefit of the region.
On 2 May 2024, Tracy Brabin was re-elected as Mayor of West Yorkshire after a first term which began in 2021. The Mayor holds powers on transport, housing, regeneration, and finance. The Mayor works with the Combined Authority, regional partners, council leaders and business representatives for the benefit of West Yorkshire and its residents.
The Mayor also holds the functions of the Police and Crime commissioner and is supported by an appointed Deputy Mayor for Policing, Alison Lowe OBE. The Mayor brings the region greater influence within Government at a national level, and alongside other metro Mayors, campaigns for greater devolution.
Read Tracy Brabin's Mayoral pledges for West Yorkshire
With the Mayor of West Yorkshire as its directly-elected chair, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority brings together the local authorities of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield, working in partnership with the City of York.
This way of working combines the insights and benefits of private sector knowledge and expertise with robust, transparent, public sector governance, accountability and oversight from the Combined Authority. This is important as the region takes on further devolved powers and funding from central Government. Together, we are working hard to make our region be recognised globally as a place with a strong, successful economy where everyone can build great businesses, careers and lives supported by a sustainable environment and world-class infrastructure.
It means we can put the long term needs of our communities and the people who live and work in West Yorkshire at the heart of everything we do, ensuing we can support inclusive growth and supporting the needs of our region's employers. We also play a central role in travel across West Yorkshire, operating the Metro network of almost 14,000 bus stops, travel centres and public transport information across the region, and working closely with West Yorkshire bus operators to improve services and the bus network. Metro supports free and subsidised travel, concessionary fares, transport to and from school for more than 40,000 West Yorkshire pupils, and manages the MCard travel card.
Road safety has taken centre stage in an innovative programme using drama to help more than 13,000 children, across 83 schools in the region.
West Yorkshire's private and public sector leaders have joined forces to kick-off plans for next month's UKREiiF.
A consultation asking parents and carers in West Yorkshire to have their say on how they want the future of secondary school bus services to look has started today.
Yorkshire’s three mayors met the Transport Secretary last night (Thursday) to outline their ambitions for the region’s railways.
The Mayor's statement in response to recent reports about West Yorkshire Police recruitment
Community groups can now bid for up to £5,000 via the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s community grants scheme, to get more people walking, wheeling and cycling.
Hundreds of healthtech firms in West Yorkshire will benefit from new support to accelerate their growth, create jobs and develop lifechanging new technologies for patients.
Nearly £125 million to improve and maintain West Yorkshire’s roads over the next two years agreed.