2025 Action Scorecards

Question · Action Scorecards 2025

Does the combined authority's medium term financial plan include the council's net zero target and make tackling the climate emergency one of its main priorities?

Question code
4.1b
Section
Governance & Finance (CA)
Topic
Net-Zero Embedded in mid-term Financial Plan
Source
Volunteer Research
Question weight
Low

Criteria

Criteria met if climate action (alternatively called sustainability or environment) is listed as one of the council's core priorities or equivalent. It must have its own heading or section and a net zero target date must be referenced.

The net zero target date must be an area-wide target, either the UK Government's national target, the devolved nation's target or the council's area-wide net zero target.

Clarifications

A mid-term Financial Plan is a plan (often covering four years) which sets out the council's commitment to provide services that meet the needs of people locally and that represent value for money within the overall resources available to the council.

We will accept other language for target dates, such as carbon neutrality.

Question performance

Points distribution Combined Authorities

0 points

8 Combined Authorities

1 point

1 Combined Authority

Note: “in 2023” counts show how the councils listed below were marked on this question in 2023. This list of councils may be slightly different to the list of councils originally assessed on this question in 2023, due to the creation and abolition of councils between Scorecard years.

Rising and falling Combined Authorities

00
councils scored higher in 2025
11
councils scored lower in 2025

Scores and evidence Combined Authorities

CouncilScoreDifference2023Evidence
Greater London Authority
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--No evidence found
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--No evidence found
Tees Valley Combined Authority
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--No evidence found
West Midlands Combined Authority
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--No evidence found
West of England Combined Authority
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
▼ 0
0/1▼ -1Evidence doesn't meet criteria
West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--No evidence found