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Review of Overview and Scrutiny Annual Report

Meeting: 31/07/2019 - Council (Item 50)

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The Council considered a report which outlined the work undertaken by overview and scrutiny during the past year and, within Appendix 1 to the report, its future work programme as thus far developed.  The report also included details of measures to continue the further development of overview and scrutiny, in the context of the Statutory Guidance on Overview and Scrutiny in Local and Combined Authorities which had been issued in May 2019.

 

Decisions taken under the ‘urgency’ provisions and the use of ‘call-in’ were detailed within the report.  In 2018-19, five decisions had been taken under the urgency provisions of the Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rules, and there had been no call-ins.

 

The report had also been considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee at its meeting on 9 July 2019, and the Committee had commended it to Council.

 

Upon the motion of Councillor James Walsh, seconded by Councillor Paul Spooner,the Council

 

RESOLVED:

 

(1)     That thereport be commended as the annual report of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee for 2018-19.

 

(2)     That the current rules relating to call in or urgency provisions remain unchanged.

 

(3)     That the policies, practice, and approaches identified within the statutory guidance on overview and scrutiny, attached as Appendix 2 to the report submitted to the Council, be noted.

 

Reasons:

·        Article 8.2(d) of the Council’s Constitution requires the Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee to report annually to Full Council on the work undertaken during the year, its future work programme, and amended working methods if appropriate. 

·        The Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rule 16(i), requires the operation of the provisions relating to call-in and urgency to be monitored annually and a report submitted to Full Council with proposals for review if necessary.

·        Statutory guidance on overview and scrutiny has been published in May 2019 to ensure that local authorities carry out their overview and scrutiny functions effectively.

 

 


Meeting: 23/07/2019 - Council (Item 37)

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Consideration of this item was adjourned to Wednesday 31 July 2019.