Purpose

West Yorkshire Combined
Authority has agreed to provide the Council with grant funding
totalling £2,023,576.25 via
the Government’s Industrial Strategy Zone programme to
deliver the Huddersfield Health Innovation Incubator (HHII)
programme, in partnership with the University of Huddersfield and
the 3M Buckley Innovation Centre.
 
The HHII programme will create
wrap around support for businesses in the health, wellbeing and
digital sectors that are seeking to start-up or scale up. It will
deliver tailored start-up support, workspaces, events and
networking activity and create a thriving community of businesses,
academics, clinicians and other professionals focused on supporting
and embedding innovation across our health and care
systems.
 
The programme builds on
previous, successful UKSPF-funded projects including the
Council-led Thrive initiative for health and wellbeing start-ups
and will complement and add value to the groundbreaking National
Health Innovation Campus programme.
 
The proposed decision is
to
 
·      
accept external funding of £2,023,576.25 from West Yorkshire Combined
Authority

 
·      
enter into grant funding agreements with the
Council’s delivery partners the University of Huddersfield
and it’s subsidiary company the 3M Buckley
Innovation Centre
 
·      
facilitate the commencement and award of any related
procurement exercises.
 
 
A range of stakeholders have
been consulted on the extension of the Huddersfield Health
Innovation Incubator programme including West Yorkshire Combined
Authority. There is ongoing engagement with delivery partners and
service users to shape delivery of the programme.

Content

RESOLVED –
 

1)   
That approval be given to the delivery of the Huddersfield Health
Innovation Incubator.

2)   
That approval be given to accepting external revenue funding of
£2,023,576.25 from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority to
support delivery of the programme, and for the Council to act as
Accountable Body for the grant.

3)   
That authority be delegated to the Executive Director for Place, in
consultation with the Service Director Legal, Governance and
Commissioning, to agree all necessary legal agreements with the
West Yorkshire Combined Authority and the flow down grant
agreements with the Council’s project delivery partners the
University of Huddersfield and 3M Buckley Innovation Centre.

4)   
That authority be delegated to the Service Director Legal,
Governance and Commissioning to enter into the aforementioned
documentation in resolution (3) on behalf of the Council and for
the Executive Director for Place to put in place the necessary
governance arrangements for the programme.

5)   
That authority be delegated for the implementation of the programme
to the Executive Director for Place to include the commencement and
award of any related procurement exercises and for the Service
Director Legal, Governance and Commissioning to enter into the
associated legal formalities and documentation on behalf of the
Council. 

6)   
That authority be delegated to the Executive Director for Place and
the Service Director Finance to submit grant claims and to
undertake related project monitoring and reporting in accordance
with the contract procedure rules and finance procedure rules.