Corporate Plan

It is an honour and a privilege to have been re-elected by the people of West Yorkshire to serve a second term as Mayor.

My re-election was an endorsement of the vision, priorities and strategies we have adopted over the past three years.

We are proving that devolution is working. We are improving people's lives because decisions are being made closer to the communities we serve.

With a second mayoral term, we must now take this further and prove that we are not only putting in place the policies and strategies that will drive forward our region, but delivering on the plans that will make a real-world difference.

We need to deliver

Deliver Bus Franchising. Deliver Mass Transit. Deliver a Local Growth Plan. Deliver Home Energy West Yorkshire. Deliver new affordable homes. Deliver improved skills. Deliver better access to sport and culture for all.

These ambitions will not all be achieved in the next year, over the period of this Corporate Plan.

We will continue to make progress to fulfil our ambitions this year, setting the tone for those that follow. 

As an organisation, we are growing. We are ready to take on new responsibilities, new funding, and new powers. And we are ready to deliver on the priorities of West Yorkshire and make life better for the people who live, work and visit our region.

• Announced plans to bring buses under local control through a new franchising model
• Submitted our plans to the Government for a new Mass Transit system for West Yorkshire, which will be integrated with cycling, walking, bus and rail
• Established a dedicated Women's Safety Unit, a 12-month pilot project
• Commissioned services to improve community safety and reduce knife crime and violent crime, supporting and engaging with 24,991 people under 25
• Produced a framework to embed Child-First principles across West Yorkshire
• Installed energy-efficiency measures in 2,306 households
• Completed the first phases of work on the Home Energy West Yorkshire programme, enabling the delivery of low-interest loans and a collecting buying scheme early in 2024-25
• Supported 309 businesses through the Business Sustainability Programme

• Supported 4,377 businesses to grow and become more resilient
• Supported 296 businesses to engage with employment and skills programmes
• Supported 55,937 adults to upskill and retrain
• Supported 1,175 entrepreneurs to grow or start a business. Of these businesses, 62% were female-led, 41% led by a person from an ethnic minority group
• Delivered 22 successful Trade and Investment projects, which have created or safeguarded 1,655 jobs
• Approved 3,150 new homes for development on brownfield land
• Spearheaded West Yorkshire's first Young Poet Laureate Scheme, led by the Mayor in partnership with the national Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, and the British Library Trust
• Supported Leeds, Kirklees, Calderdale and Wakefield to deliver their Years of Culture
• Begun preparations to deliver Bradford, City of Culture 2025