Meeting Details

The Chair to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's Public-I microsite (please click this link) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

Members are reminded they must declare all relevant  pecuniary and other registerable interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting.

If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.

If other registerable interests are declared a Member may speak on the matter only if members of the public are allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.    

If it is a ‘sensitive interest’, Members do not have to disclose the nature of the interest, just that they have an interest.

Information on the Local Government Association’s Model Councillor Code of Conduct is set out via http://bit.ly/3WtGQnN. This includes, at Appendix 1, an interests flowchart which provides a simple guide to declaring interests at meetings.  

To review and note the actions from previous Co-ordinating Overview and Scrutiny Committee meetings.

This report sets out the red, amber, green (RAG) rated savings for 2023/24 and provides an opportunity to consider progress on delivery of savings during Quarter 2 and 3.

This item also provides an opportunity to consider the implications of recent events (highlighted in Section 1) on the future scrutiny work programme.

To consider the attached report from the Cost of Living Scrutiny Task and Finish Group.  

To consider the attached work programmes and to agree any updates / amendments. 

To note that the next meeting will take place on 18 November 2023 at 1000 hours.