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  Draft West Midlands Combined Authority Order 2016
  
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  @ MP voted aye to establish the West Midlands Combined Authority across the local government areas of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. 
  
  @ MP voted no against establishing the West Midlands Combined Authority across the local government areas of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted to establish the West Midlands Combined Authority across the local government areas of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. 
  
  
  The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That the [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111146576/contents draft West Midlands Combined Authority Order 2016], which was laid before this House on 28 April, in the last Session of Parliament, be approved.
  
  
  The proposed role of the authority includes:[1]
  
  * Responsibility for a consolidated, devolved transport budget
  * Responsibility for franchised bus services
  * Responsibility for a new Key Route Network of local authority roads
  * Planning powers to drive housing delivery and improvements in housing stock
  * Devolved 19+ adult skills funding
  
  
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  * [1] [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/477421/West_Midlands_devolution_deal_unsigned_final_web.pdf Draft West Midlands Combined Authority Agreement]
  
  
  
  
  
  
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