The Mayor will provide a single voice for Surrey, via election in May 2027/8.

We won’t know when until 15 October 2025 when the government is due to tell us.

At some point Surrey will become a Mayoral Strategic Authority (MSA) or Mayoralty.

Each Strategic Authority will have seven “areas of competence”

• transport and local infrastructure 
• skills and employment support
• housing and strategic planning 
• economic development and regeneration
• environment and net zero 
• health, wellbeing and public service reform 
• public safety

A mayor may appoint up to seven commissioners to lead the seven areas of competence.