Decision details

Productivity Plan Approval

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Decision Maker: Chief Executive Officer

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

To consider the draft productivity plan for submission to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

Decision:

To approve the Productivity Plan for submission to the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Reasons for the decision:

Local Government Authorities are required to submit Productivity Plans to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government under the 2024 Local Government Finance Settlement. These plans needed to be produced and returned by 19 July 2024. In light of the General Election being called for 4 July 2024, the meeting of Cabinet for July was moved to 25 July 2024. As the plans require member oversight and endorsement, the change of meeting dates has made this impossible to achieve without holding a Cabinet meeting during the pre-election period which was considered to be impractical and undesirable. The deadline for submission was extended to 29 July 2024 but this still did not allow for the necessary decision-making processes to be completed. Therefore, the Chief Executive Officer, in consultation with lead members, took an urgent officer decision to submit the plan on behalf of the Council.

Alternative options considered:

Options were considered for Cabinet to approve the plan later in July but were deemed to not be appropriate given the stated deadline by the UK Government.

Urgent item?: Yes

Publication date: 02/08/2024

Date of decision: 29/07/2024

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