That Council be recommended to approve the:

·           policy on debt strategy for 2015/16 to 2017/18 as set out in section 3 of the report;

·           investment strategy for 2015/16 to 2017/18  and amendments to the credit criteria as set out in section 5 of the report;

·           Prudential Indicators and limits including the Authorised Limit (as required by section 3(1) of the Local Government Act 2003), Operational Boundary, Minimum Revenue Provision Statement and Investment criteria as detailed in Appendix 3 to the report.