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 confirm the minutes from the Corporate and Finance Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting held on 7 and 22 November 2024. 

a) To highlight reports or appendices which officers have identified as containing exempt information within the meaning of Section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972, and where officers consider that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, for the reasons outlined in the report.
b) To formally pass the following resolution:-

RESOLVED – That, in accordance with Regulation 4 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meetings and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of those parts of the agenda designated as exempt on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press and public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information.

To review and note the actions from previous Corporate and Finance Overview and Scrutiny Committee meetings.

To update Members on the Medium Term Financial Plan Refresh.

To update members on the Provisional Financial Outturn 2023/24.

To inform the Committee of the delivery of the 2024/25 budget savings and the delivery of IRP Programmes within the Committee’s terms of reference and the Committee to agree any recommendations.

To consider the Budget Task & Finish Group recommendations for 2025/2026 and agree recommendations to be made to Cabinet.

To consider the draft Scrutiny and Audit Committees Memorandum of Understanding.

To consider the report on the Scrutiny Work Programme. 

To note that the next meeting will take place on 28 February 2025 at 1030 hours.