The North East Joint Transport Committee was a special joint committee of the

North East Combined Authority The North East Combined Authority (NECA) is a combined authority in North East England. It has a directly-elected Mayor and seven member councils: two are unitary authorities ( Durham and Northumberland) and five are metropolitan borough counc ...

and the

North of Tyne Combined Authority The North of Tyne Combined Authority was a combined authority, mayoral combined authority which consisted of the local authorities of Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, and Northumberland, all in North East England. The authority came into be ...

. It was responsible for public transport policy in

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and

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in England. It was the governing body of Nexus, the trading name of the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive. The inaugural meeting was held on 20 November 2018. It was a statutory committee, created by part 3 of the Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority (Establishment and Functions) Order 2018. The committee held the transport powers that would ordinarily be the responsibility of a

combined authority A combined authority (CA) is a type of local government institution introduced in England outside Greater London by the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009. CAs are created voluntarily and allow a group of local au ...

or integrated transport authority. Some functions were devolved to

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and

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and there was a sub-committee for transport policy in

. The committee had seven members, with four from the North East Combined Authority and three from the North of Tyne Combined Authority. It was hosted by and accountable to the North East Combined Authority who "hold, manage and account for the finances and staff deployed in relation to the discharge of transport functions". The North East Joint Transport Committee was abolished on 7 May 2024 when its functions were assumed by the

North East Mayoral Combined Authority The North East Combined Authority (NECA) is a combined authority in North East England. It has a directly-elected Mayor and seven member councils: two are unitary authorities ( Durham and Northumberland) and five are metropolitan borough counc ...

, which was formed as a merger of both the North East Combined Authority and the North of Tyne Combined Authority.https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348257243/part/2

References

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