Agenda and decisions

Members are asked to declare any interests in the items under consideration and in doing so state:

(1) the type of interest concerned either a

(a)   personal interest

(b)   prejudicial interest

(c)    disclosable pecuniary interest (DPI)

and

(2) the nature of the interest concerned

If any member requires advice on declarations of interests, they are advised to contact the Head of Democratic Governance in advance of the meeting.

To report the level of spending and exposure against the Council’s Revenue budgets and reserves and balances for the first 10 months to 31 January 2022.

The Executive agreed the recommendations as outlined above namely:

1. To note the report.  

2.      To require the respective directors and Director of Resources to continue to closely monitor and manage service financial and operational performances, specifically Growth and Prosperity, Children’s Services, Strategic Leisure Assets, Communications and Regeneration and Adult Services.

3.      To prompt the Scrutiny Leadership Board to continue to independently review the financial and operational performances of the services listed in decision 2.

4.      To continue to lobby central government (HM Treasury, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Department for Health and Social Care, Department for Transport, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Department for Education in particular) along with local authority peers and networks and the Local Government Association for the funding necessary to cope with the demands and new burdens presenting as a result of both Covid and within Children’s Services.

The report and Appendix contain commercially sensitive information which is exempt from publication by virtue of Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. The information contains information about the proposed course of action which is commercially sensitive and the publication of which would potentially undermine the Council’s position in future and ongoing negotiations, the public interest would therefore not be served by publishing this information.