To receive a report of the Executive Member for Finance and the Director of Finance considered by the Executive on 17 February 2016.

The Committee received a report of the Executive Member for Finance and the Director of Finance providing a formal response to the Scrutiny Committee’s recommendations on the budget proposals for 2016/17.

The Executive agreed with all recommendations made as part of the budget scrutiny report, and welcomed the opportunity to work with Scrutiny during the course of the coming year.

It was noted that the Equality Impact Assessments could be found on the Council website; however Members suggested that these should be dated and linked to the appropriate Executive decision to ensure clarity.

RESOLVED:

(i)            That the Executive’s response be noted.

(ii)          That the appropriate items be added to the Scrutiny Committee work programme for 2016/17.

That the response to Scrutiny be approved and that the Executive welcomes the opportunity to work with Scrutiny during the course of the coming year on their follow up work.

The Executive Member for Finance and Director of Finance submitted a report which responded formally to the recommendations, presented to the Executive’s meeting on 25^th January 2016, of the Scrutiny Committee, in relation to its findings from the review of the Executive’s draft budget proposals for 2016/17.

RESOLVED - That the response to Scrutiny be approved and that the Executive welcomes the opportunity to work with Scrutiny during the course of the coming year on their follow up work.