Issue - meetings

The Committee Support Officer submitted the work programme report and Members were invited to consider and determine the work programme going forward. The Committee Support Officer mentioned the workshops that had been held in June 2024 and March 2025, and various topics had been added to the work programme.

The Committee Support Officer reiterated that there should be discussions or emails between Members and the chair to define those topics via scrutiny proposal forms to avoid these matters slipping further during the civic year.

The Director for Legal, Policy and Governance said that some of these topics had been on the work programme from the previous civic year. He reiterated that Officers needed to know which aspects of affordable housing and sustainable transport Members wanted to explore.

The Director for Legal, Policy and Governance said that Officers needed to pull information together and take this through Leadership Team before final amendments were made for reports to Overview and Scrutiny Committee. He said that scrutiny proposals forms should be submitted by the end of June for the meeting of the Committee in September.

Councillor Carter said that she had suggested the topic of sustainable transport following a report submitted back in 2017. She referred to recommendations made then and whether there had been progress since then.

Councillor Carter asked if there was a way for members to see a list of which topics the committee had consider over the last 5 years or so. Councillor Jacobs said that he would talk to the Committee Support Officer about this outside of the meeting.

Councillor Wyllie asked about the position of the Scrutiny Officer that had supported Members when he was previously on the committee. The Committee Support Officer explained that there was no Scrutiny Officer and he and a colleague shared the workload of supporting the Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

Councillor Nicholls said that she would do a scrutiny proposal form in respect of affordable housing or housing associations and accountability. Councillor Swainston said that some helpful documents had been circulated about the function of the scrutiny committee and some training information. She asked if this could be sent out again for the benefit of the new members of the committee.

Councillor Swainston proposed, and Councillor Carter seconded a motion that the Overview and Scrutiny Committee work programme be agreed. After being put to the meeting and a vote taken, the motion was declared CARRIED.

RESOLVED – that the Overview and Scrutiny Committee work programme in Appendix 1 be agreed.