Lead Member for Economy
DECISIONS made by the Lead Member for Economy, Councillor Rupert Simmons, on 20 September 2022 at Remote Meeting via Microsoft Teams
Councillors Johnny Denis, Wendy Maples and Paul Redstone spoke on item 4 (see minute 12)
Councillors Colin Belsey and Wendy Maples spoke on item 7 (see minute 14)
8. Decisions made by the Lead Cabinet Member on 20 July 2022
8.1 The Lead Member approved as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 20 July 2022.
9. Disclosure of Interests
9.1 There were none.
10. Urgent items
10.1 There were no urgent items.
11. Reports
11.1 Reports referred to in the minutes below are contained in the minute book.
12. Create Growth Programme bid
12.1 The Lead Member considered a report by the Director of Communities, Economy and Transport together with exempt information contained in a later agenda item.
DECISIONS
12.2 The Lead Member RESOLVED to:
(1) Approve the proposed Create Growth Programme bid (Appendix 1 of an exempt report detailed in a later agenda item); and
(2) Delegate responsibility to the Director of Communities, Economy and Transport for ensuring that the County Council’s roles and responsibilities as a Consortium partner for the Create Growth programme are met.
REASONS
12.3 The programme meets the East Sussex Cultural Strategy priorities, East Sussex Growth Strategy and East Sussex County Council strategic priorities.
12.4 The programme will support local pre-scale up Creative businesses to grow, increase employment opportunities for residents, make available a proportion of the £7m additional funding to our creative businesses and start to build a South East investment community with an appetite to invest in creative businesses to the benefit of East Sussex businesses and residents.
13. Exclusion of the Public and Press
13.1 It was RESOLVED to exclude the public and press for the remaining agenda items on the grounds that if the public and press were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information as specified in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended), namely information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
14. Create Growth Programme bid - Exempt Information
14.1 The Lead Member considered a report by the Director of Communities, Economy and Transport which contained exempt information in support of an earlier agenda item.
14.2 The Lead Member RESOLVED to note the exempt information provided in support of an earlier agenda item.