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The Main Regional Bodies
Yorkshire and Humber Assembly
What is the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly?
The Yorkshire and Humber Assembly is the region's strategic partnership. Established as the Regional Chamber in 1998, it became the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly in October 2001, replacing the former Regional Assembly for Yorkshire and Humberside.
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What does it do?
The full Assembly is responsible for providing regional leadership, agreeing regional strategic priorities, directing the development of the Integrated Regional Framework and endorsing key regional strategies.
The Assembly
- Agrees the region’s vision and priorities for a better and sustainable future, setting them out in an Integrated Regional Framework that guides the work of all other regional strategies and plans;
- Reviews overall progress towards delivering these priorities and proposes changes to strategy and action where needed;
- Works with other partners to lobby, nationally and in Europe, to get the best possible deal for the region, for example to secure more investment or to ensure sustainable development;
- Is the regional planning body, overseeing work with partners to shape where and what types of development will meet the future needs of the region;
- Oversees work to develop and implement the Yorkshire and Humber Plan (including the Regional Transport Strategy), and the Regional Housing Strategy, and helps shape the Regional Economic Strategy and other important regional plans;
- Is responsible for scrutinising the Regional Economic Strategy to ensure that work to secure sustainable economic development and growth is delivering real benefits for the region; and
- Ensures that regional agencies and their activities are accountable to the region through the active, majority involvement of all 22 Local Authority Leaders working alongside social, economic and environmental partners.
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Who are its members?
YHA has [37 members]. They are the Leaders of the region's 22 local authorities plus 15 members representing the region's social, economic and environmental partners.
Full Assembly meetings are held every 3 months and are attended by elected members accompanied, as appropriate, by officers.
The Assembly has an Executive Board where the region’s key players come together to co-ordinate regional policy, align regional activity and resources, and secure the partnerships that will deliver the Assembly’s vision and priorities for a better, sustainable future for Yorkshire and Humber.
[Click here] for more information about the Regional Executive Board and its members.
Prior to 2006 the Assembly was structured around five functional commissions. Following Central Government guidance, designed to deliver its regional agenda more effectively and a review by the YHA of its own functions and working processes the Assembly’s working structures are:
- The Full Assembly is responsible for providing regional leadership, agreeing regional strategic priorities, directing the development of the Region’s Integrated Regional Framework and endorsing key regional strategies. Membership comprises all 22 local authorities in this region, plus 15 Social, Economic and Environmental partners, and the National Parks for planning purposes.
- The Regional Executive Board (REB) is where the region does business. It provides the forum for the region’s key players to: co-ordinate regional policy, align regional activity and resources and secure the partnerships that will deliver our vision for a better, sustainable future for Yorkshire and the Humber. It is accountable to the full Assembly.
- The core activities of the Assembly are carried out through three functional Boards dealing with housing, planning and transport. They will have full operational responsibility for their area of activity, and are accountable to the Regional Executive Board.
- The Scrutiny Board undertakes scrutiny of Yorkshire Forward and is led by the Deputy Chair of the Assembly. It is accountable to the Assembly and works closely with the Sustainable Development Board to assess the impact of the Regional Economic Strategy, acting as a ‘critical friend’ to institutions and bodies working in the region.
- The Sustainable Development Board provides guidance on sustainable development to the full Assembly, the Regional Executive Board and the other Regional Boards. The Board has a particular responsibility to act independently and provide constructive, robust and insightful advice. The Sustainable Development Board works closely with the Scrutiny Board to ensure effective challenge on sustainable development issues.
The YHA has an important role in advising the Government on Regional Funding Allocations. As part of the drive to give the regions a greater voice, the Regional Planning, Transport and Housing Boards, together with the Yorkshire Forward Board prepare submissions on how the region’s economic priorities should best be met. These are reflected in the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Reviews
What’s New – all the latest from the YHA website
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“The Yorkshire and Humber Assembly is a partnership of all local authorities in the region and representatives of various economic, social and environmental sectors. The region covers an area of 15411 square kilometres from Sheffield to Whitby, Hull to Huddersfield, and has a population of over five million.”
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