Agenda item

To consider any matters arising from the Minutes.

The Head of Governance and Scrutiny Support reported that information requested by the Committee had been circulated to Members following the meeting in June;

1. With reference to Minute No. 7 (ii) it was confirmed that the concerns of this committee were conveyed to the new Chair of the Member Management Committee and at that committee’s meeting on the 29^th June a cross party Member Working group was established to progress matters relating to GDPR.  It was further confirmed that policies and procedures relating to Members under GDPR had now been published on the Council’s website

2. With reference to Minute No. 7 (iii) – information regarding Social Value in procurement was provided to Members on the 29^th June;

3. With reference Minute No. 8 – further information from the Children and Families Directorate was circulated on the 16^th July.  Additional information was requested as a result of a Member query and was circulated on the 16^th July.  A request to have a further report back to the Committee is included in the work programme item later on this agenda.

4. Further to Minute No. 8 it was reported that the Chair wrote to Councillor B Anderson requesting that his Scrutiny Board’s consider looking into the use of RIPA to tackle environmental action issues.  It was reported that the Principal Scrutiny Adviser had confirmed that the Board intend to incorporate this into their inquiries into waste management later in the year.

5. With reference to Minute No. 9 Members were informed that the response from the Chief Officer to the resolutions of this Committee had been circulated to all Members on 16^th July.  Further clarification was being sought in relation to the Committee’s observations in relation to an ethical landlord policy.

6. Referring to Minute No. 10 it was reported that the additional requested information relating to disciplinary investigations had been circulated to all Members on the 13^th July.  It was also confirmed that circulation of the Chief Executive’s response to the Chair’s letter setting out the Committee’s concerns regarding register of interest return rates from officers in high risk posts had been circulated to all Members on the 18^th July.  No returns were now outstanding.

7. With reference to Minute No. 11 – it was confirmed that the information requested under resolution 2 (alignment of the budget to the Best Council Plan) was circulated to all Members on the 3^rd July.

8.  With reference to Minute No. 13 – it was reported that the information requested by the Committee relating to the full scheme cost PFI programmes was circulated to Members on the 13^th July and that training had been offered to Members on the accounts.

9.  In response to a query relating to Minute No. 8 resolution (iii) the Head of Governance and Scrutiny Support confirmed that Directors had given an undertaking to add further narrative to the 28 day notice of an intention of taking a Key Decision and that this would be also reinforced in training.

  The Chair informed Members that he had raised with officers the fact   that new Members were not receiving notices relating to Key Decisions   and that assurances had been received that that oversight had been   rectified.