Decision details

That (A) the policy detailed in the report now submitted requiring Members to access ICT systems using their own equipment with effect from May 2015, be approved;

(B)     the ownership of existing laptops be transferred to re-elected Members that wish to continue using them from May 2015 onwards;

(C)    Members who are not elected in May 2015 return their laptops to provide a stock of equipment to be transferred to new Members should they wish to use them;

(D)    the new arrangements for supporting Members set out in section 4 of this report be approved;

(E)     the new  Members’ ICT support arrangements referred to in (D) above be put in place prior to May 2015 for those Members who wish to pilot such arrangements; and

(F)     the new ICT Support Arrangements be formally reviewed post May 2015 to a timeframe to be agreed with the Executive Member for Economic Development.