Agenda and minutes

To receive opening announcements from the chair.

Chair ran through housekeeping matters.

To record apologies for absence and the attendance of substitute members. 

None.

To adopt and sign as a correct record the Scrutiny Committee minutes of the meeting held on 5 February 2024.

The minutes of the meeting on 5 February 2024 were agreed to be a correct record, and the chair will sign them as such.

To receive declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests, other registrable interests and non-registrable interests or any conflicts of interest in respect of items on the agenda for this meeting. 

Councillor Judy Roberts declared that she was a member of Oxfordshire County Council, as Cabinet Member for Infrastructure & Development Strategy.

To receive notification of any matters which the chair determines should be considered as urgent business and the special circumstances which have made the matters urgent.

None.

To receive any questions or statements from members of the public that have registered to speak. 

None.

To review the attached scrutiny work schedule. Please note, although the dates are confirmed, the items under consideration are subject to being withdrawn, added to or rearranged without further notice.

There will be additional meetings around September to ensure time to scrutinise the reports coming up.

Other work programme ideas:

Decarbonisation lesson learned report – a member asked what other items we can add as lesson learned.

How do we deliver housing?

Community Infrastructure Levy and Section 106 requests – how do we decide what we are asking for in S106 agreements. This could come under lessons learned, also infrastructure and services that come with housing.

Section 106 concern over funds needing to be paid back – can we have reporting on this? It was confirmed that this would be covered in a later meeting.

Chair asked members to consider what they wanted to add or remove from the work programme.

A standing agenda item to review previous committee recommendations, whereby committee will receive any updates emerging from the recommendations made in previous meetings.

Members noted the updates.

To consider whether to exclude members of the press and public from the meeting for the following items of business under Section 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended on the grounds that:

(i)     It is likely that there will be disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A, and

(ii)    the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Resolved:

Members voted in favour of excluding the public to consider a confidential report.

Members discussed the report of the Head of Development and Corporate Landlord, and gave recommendations to Cabinet.