Decision details

The Committee will review information provided at September meeting and establish the RPPR Board to examine the Departmental Portfolio Plans and budgets for the 2017/18 financial year.

38.1     The Chief Operating Officer introduced report. The Chair referred the Committee to the list of further information requests contained in the minutes of the previous meeting. There were no additional items for the Committee to consider with the exception of the additional savings requirement for Orbis.

38.2     The Committee asked if the additional Orbis savings involved bringing existing savings plans forward from 2018/19. The Chief Operating Officer responded that the additional savings would be achieved in part by bringing savings forward and in part from increased savings from ‘manged on behalf of’ budgets. The increased savings will come from Procurement and Business Operations. At present Orbis is checking to make sure that the additional savings are applied in an equal and fair way across the two organisations. More detail will be provided at RPPR Board meeting.

38.3     The Committee asked for further detail about the savings being made in Trading Standards. The Senior Democratic Services Advisor informed the Committee that this service area was within the remit of the Economy, Transport and Environment (ETE) Scrutiny Committee, and agreed to circulate an earlier report to the ETE Scrutiny Committee on Trading Standards.

38.4     The Committee RESOLVED to note the report and that there were no further requests for additional information for the RPPR Board.