Decision Details

(4 hours allocated)

At this stage in the Council meeting, the following procedural Motion will be moved:-

"That, pursuant to a Council Business Management discussion, Standing Orders be waived to allocate up to 4 hours for the whole debate on the Council Business Plan and Budget 2016+ report, permit the Leader of the City Council to make a speech of up to 45 minutes, permit the other Group Leaders to make a speech of up to 30 minutes each, permit all other speakers in the debate to speak for up to 5 minutes, permit the Leader of the City Council to reply to the debate without time limit, and agree that amendments to the Motions should be taken in the order that the amendments were notified to the Lord Mayor"

(A 10 minute break will be taken during the debate.)

The Leader to move the Motions set out in the document at Pages 277-279.


Members must, in reaching their decision on the Budget Motions, have full regard to the results of the consultation, as set out in Part Four, and the analysis of equalities considerations, as set out in Part Three and Appendix 1 of the Business Plan and Budget 2016+.