Issue - meetings

Resolved: that the Committee would share its views with the Overview and Scrutiny Business Panel, as follows –

·         The coming year will be a critical period for the Council’s finances. The Public Accounts Select Committee wishes to reemphasise the significant and sustained pressures on the Council’s budget. The Committee recognises its pivotal role in scrutinising the Council’s finances and it intends to focus its efforts for 2019-20 on key areas, including both adult and children’s social care. Nonetheless, the Committee points out the important part that all scrutiny committees have to play in examining the Council’s budgets and scrutinising financial management.

·         The Public Accounts Select Committee requests that the Business Panel assures itself that all select committees have given due consideration to scrutiny of the Council’s finances in the development of their 2019-20 work programmes. In particular, the Committee recommends that the relevant select committees should be tasked with scrutinising the capital programme expenditure within their remit (including the schools programme; major regeneration projects and the housing revenue account allocation) as well as the dedicated schools grant and the complete housing revenue account.

2.2    Resolved: that the Committee would share its views with the Overview and Scrutiny Business Panel, as follows –

·         The coming year will be a critical period for the Council’s finances. The Public Accounts Select Committee wishes to reemphasise the significant and sustained pressures on the Council’s budget. The Committee recognises its pivotal role in scrutinising the Council’s finances and it intends to focus its efforts for 2019-20 on key areas, including both adult and children’s social care. Nonetheless, the Committee points out the important part that all scrutiny committees have to play in examining the Council’s budgets and scrutinising financial management.

·         The Public Accounts Select Committee requests that the Business Panel assures itself that all select committees have given due consideration to scrutiny of the Council’s finances in the development of their 2019-20 work programmes. In particular, the Committee recommends that the relevant select committees should be tasked with scrutinising the capital programme expenditure within their remit (including the schools programme; major regeneration projects and the housing revenue account allocation) as well as the dedicated schools grant and the complete housing revenue account.