Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member Reports - June 2023 to September 2023

Meeting: 19/09/2023 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Regeneration and Skills) (Item 17)

17 Cabinet Member Reports - June 2023 to September 2023 PDF 348 KB

Report of the Chief Legal and Democratic Officer

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered the report of the Chief Legal and Democratic Officer that included the most recent reports from the Cabinet Members for Communities and Housing; Health and Wellbeing (Green Sefton element); Locality Services; Planning and Building Control; and Regeneration and Skills.

Members of the Committee asked questions/commented on the following issues:

· The achievement of Library Assistant Lizzie Todd of being named MJ Rising Star of 2023 at this year’s Municipal Journal Awards.

· Affordable housing delivery in the borough and the potential impacts on such delivery due to current economic market conditions.

· A concern was raised that a Member wished to ask a question but that due to the Cabinet Member not being present at the meeting they were unable to do so. It was acknowledged that any Member could contact a Cabinet Member about their reports directly, but that this would not provide public scrutiny as the question would not be in the public domain.

RESOLVED: That

(1)	the Cabinet Member - Communities and Housing; Locality Services; Health and Wellbeing (Green Sefton element); and Regeneration and Skills reports relating to the remit of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee be noted;
(2)	the congratulations of the Committee be extended to Lizzie Todd for her achievement of being named MJ Rising Star of 2023 at this year’s Municipal Journal Awards;
(3)	the Chief Legal and Democratic Officer be requested to arrange for the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board to consider the issue of questions submitted to Cabinet Members at Overview and Scrutiny Committees; and
(4)	Councillor Hardy be thanked for her attendance at the Committee.