Agenda and minutes

Executive Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 22nd June, 2017 7.15 pm

Venue: Committee Room 6 - Civic Centre, High Street, Uxbridge UB8 1UW. View directions

Contact: Mark Braddock  Senior Manager, Democratic Services

Note: 7.15pm start or at the rising of the Cabinet meeting, whichever is earliest 

Items
No. Item

9.

Apologies for Absence and to report the presence of any substitute Members

Minutes:

Apologies were received from Councillor Peter Money. 

10.

Declarations of Interest in Matters coming before this meeting

Minutes:

No interests were declared by Members present.

11.

To receive the minutes of the meeting held after the Council's AGM on 11 May 2017 pdf icon PDF 97 KB

Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting on 11 May 2017 were agreed as a correct record.

12.

To receive the minutes of the last Committee meeting held after Cabinet on 18 May 2017 pdf icon PDF 106 KB

Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting on 18 May 2017 were agreed as a correct record.

13.

Exclusion of Press and Public

To confirm that the items of business marked Part I will be considered in public and that the items marked Part II will be considered in private.

Minutes:

Items were agreed to be considered in public and private as per their status on the Cabinet agenda and Cabinet's decisions on the night.

14.

Consideration of any Call-Ins pdf icon PDF 67 KB

To hear the Call-In of any decisions made at the Cabinet meeting prior to this meeting or made by Cabinet Members, other Council Committees or a delegated officer and published within five working days of this meeting.

 

Members should bring their Cabinet agenda to the meeting.

 

Members should consider any other decision published in the five working days before this meeting.

 

The purpose of this meeting is to decide whether to refer back any decision to the decision maker.

Minutes:

Members gave consideration to the Cabinet reports of 22 June 2017 and the decisions made by Cabinet on them earlier that evening

 

On Item 10 of the Cabinet agenda – the award of contract for care and wellbeing services in the Council’s extra care establishments – some Members present expressed concerns regarding the decisions made. In response to this, Councillor John Morse moved a motion to call-in the decisions, before they took effect, for formal scrutiny at a second meeting of the Committee. This motion was seconded by Councillor Peter Curling and upon being put to a vote (two votes in favour and 4 votes against), the motion was lost.

 

RESOLVED: - That the Cabinet’s decisions on Item 10 on the agenda not be called-in for further scrutiny.

 

After careful consideration of the remaining matters, the Committee decided not to call-in any further decisions made by the Cabinet. However, the Committee did request minor clarifications on information within some reports and it was agreed that these would be provided outside the meeting informally.

 

RESOLVED: – That the remaining decisions made by the Cabinet at their meeting on 22 June 2017 be endorsed and that no call-in be made.

 

Note: further details of the rationale behind the motion to call-in the Cabinet’s decision on Item 10 is set out in the Part 2 confidential minutes for this meeting. This is due to the fact that the matter was considered in private by the Cabinet and contained informationrelating to the financial or business affairs of any particularperson (including the Authority holding that information) andthe public interest in withholding the information outweighedthe public interest in disclosing it (exempt information underparagraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the LocalGovernment (Access to Information) Act 1985 as amended).