The North East Joint Transport Committee is a special joint committee of the North East Combined Authority and the

North of Tyne Combined Authority The North of Tyne Combined Authority is a mayoral combined authority which consists the local authorities of Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, and Northumberland, all in North East England. The authority came into being on 2 November 2018 u ...

. It is responsible for public transport policy in

Tyne and Wear Tyne and Wear () is a metropolitan county in North East England, situated around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear. It was created in 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972, along with five metropolitan boroughs of Gateshead, Newc ...

, County Durham and

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in England. It is the governing body of Nexus, the trading name of the

Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive Tyne and Wear PTE, branded as Nexus, is an executive body of the North East Joint Transport Committee and is best known for owning and operating the Tyne and Wear Metro. It replaced the Tyneside PTE on 1 April 1974. Operations TWPTE is responsi ...

. The inaugural meeting was held on 20 November 2018. It is 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 holds the transport powers that would ordinarily be the responsibility of a

combined authority A combined authority is a type of local government institution introduced in England outside Greater London by the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009. Combined authorities are created voluntarily and allow a grou ...

integrated transport authority In the United Kingdom, passenger transport executives (PTEs) are Local government in the United Kingdom, local government bodies which are responsible for public transport within large urban areas. They are accountable to combined authorities, w ...

. Some functions are devolved to Durham County Council and Northumberland County Council and there is a sub-committee for transport policy in

. The committee has seven members, with four from the North East Combined Authority and three from the North of Tyne Combined Authority. It is 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".

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