Issue - meetings

The Chairman submitted a report evaluating the progress made in relation to the work programme over 2015/16 and detailing what actions needed to be carried forward to the 2016/17 Corporate Business Scrutiny Work Programme. 

The Scrutiny Officer referred Members to the evaluation sheet as now detailed and asked Members to forward their individual comments on work achieved during the past civic year by the deadline of 31 March 2016.  She also agreed to circulate the sheet electronically.  The Scrutiny Officer asked Members to focus on topics for inclusion in the work programme for next year which would help in the ’forward planning’ section of the draft 2015/16 Overview and Scrutiny Annual report.

The Director of Finance and Support Services referred to the Annual Governance Statement Action Plan and the role of Audit in monitoring this and the role of Corporate Business Scrutiny in terms of the business role of governance and reporting matters.

The Chairman referred to the problems of looking at data which was a number of months old and asked Officers to find a solution to the problem specifically in relation to the Quarter 3 Performance Report.  The Scrutiny Officer explained that it was anticipated that the healthcheck performance information could be presented to Members at the joint meeting of Scrutiny Committees on 14 February 2017.

The Committee received the report and supported the recommendations now detailed.

RESOLVED – that (A) Members’ comments be collated as part of the evaluation exercise and used to frame the draft 2015/16 Overview and Scrutiny Annual report;

(B)   Healthcheck performance information be presented in a timely manner, particularly in relation to quarter three data; and

(C)   the work programme be approved.