A second contract, different clock
Powers are moving out of Whitehall. The record should follow them — on a clock that matches the job.
England’s strategic-authority mayors already spend public money on transport, skills and housing. Further devolution will widen that. If the appraisal stops at Westminster, the growing executive layer is unmeasured. That is the gap a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) — the Commons committee that checks how public money is spent — put in public on 7 September 2026: if you loosen Whitehall conditions, who holds the purse between elections?
Why the mayor algorithm is not a copy of the MP one
A mayor is closer to a paid executive than a backbench MP. The three questions stay the same. The weights, the feeds and the cadence change.
- Weights. Integrity 35%, promise-keeping 30%, performance 35%. Delivery rises because that is the hire. Integrity remains a veto: no clean, timely audit, no Green tile.
- Cadence. Quarterly, not weekly. Combined-authority accounts and growth-plan waypoints do not arrive every Friday. Fake weekly lines would be the data-lag problem in a new suit.
- Powers matrix. Only functions on that region’s deal are scored. Compare like with like.
- Insufficient file. Missing accounts are a result. They cap Integrity and block Green. They are not skipped.
- Two pots. Grant versus own-source income is labelled, so “the mayor delivered this” can be checked against who paid.
This site can make that file public. It cannot replace the auditor, the Local Audit Office, or a Public Accounts Committee report. Those remain the hard sources. The civic line on every card is deliberate: the mayor represents the whole region, including people who did not vote for them, and the cash is the public purse.
Two cards for one person when the job changes. Andy Burnham’s mayoral years are not blended with six weeks as prime minister.
Full mayor rules · Short names written out.
Scored regions light on the map. Unscored mayoralties stay outline-only in this pilot.
One person. Two contracts.
Andy Burnham — the mayor who became prime minister
From May 2017 to 19 June 2026 he held the Greater Manchester deal: buses, homelessness, a police precept, a city-region budget. That is an executive job with a local prospectus. In June he took Makerfield; in July he took No 10. That is a national job with an inherited 2024 manifesto and six weeks on the clock at this pilot date.
The two cards sit together here because the bridge is rare and useful. Nine years of mayoral delivery is the longest test this site has of whether devolution produces a record you can read. The PM card asks a different question: does that record travel when the same person inherits Whitehall? Averaging 67 and 53 into one number would hide both answers. So the subsection is a hinge, not a blend.
Mayor card: 2017–June 2026. PM card: from 20 July 2026. Bev Craig holds the sitting GM office and is in the set below.
The mayoral pilot set
Portraits are public press or official images used for this pilot. Burnham uses the Commons portrait. Bev Craig is the sitting successor. London and the other city-region executives are scored as mayors, not as ministers.