Members to give notice of any interest and the nature of that interest relating to any item on the agenda in accordance with the adopted Code of Conduct.

No declarations were made by Executive Members.

To consider a report of the Executive Member for Finance.

PLEASE NOTE: The Executive is asked to make recommendations to be considered by Council, following this meeting, and also on 21/1/15.

That it be recommended that Full Council adopts the Council Tax Support (CTS) scheme currently in operation with the inclusion of the amendments detailed below for 2015/16:

1)    That the applicable amounts are increased by 1% to keep them in line with inflationary increases to Housing Benefit and other welfare benefits (Appendix 1 to the report)

2)    That the non-dependant deductions are frozen at their current rate (Appendix 2 to the report).

3)    That the remaining funding allocated to the CTS discretionary fund when it was first introduced in April 2013 is rolled over into 2015/16. This is estimated to be approximately £20k by the end of the year.

The Executive Member for Finance and Director of Finance submitted a report setting out proposed amendments to the Council’s Council Tax Support Scheme for 2015/16.

            RESOLVED: That it be recommended that Full Council adopts the Council Tax Support (CTS) scheme currently in operation with the inclusion of the amendments detailed below for 2015/16:

1)    That the applicable amounts are increased by 1% to keep them in line with inflationary increases to Housing Benefit and other welfare benefits (Appendix 1 to the report)

2)    That the non-dependant deductions are frozen at their current rate (Appendix 2 to the report).

3)    That the remaining funding allocated to the CTS discretionary fund when it was first introduced in April 2013 is rolled over into 2015/16. This is estimated to be approximately £20k by the end of the year.