Issue - meetings

Any recommendations contained within the minutes of the Overview and Scrutiny Board meeting held on 18^th November 2025 were considered at the Cabinet meeting held on 19^th November 2025. Therefore, there are no outstanding minutes contained in the minutes included in this agenda pack.

If there are any recommendations as a result of the pre-scrutiny of any Cabinet reports due to be considered at the Boards’s meeting on 6^th January 2026, these will be published in a supplementary papers pack to this agenda.

The Leader invited the Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Board to present the minutes from the Board meeting held on 18^th November 2025. In doing so, Members were informed that there were no outstanding recommendations contained within the minutes.

It was explained that there had been a number of reports pre-scrutinised by the Board and the Finance and Budget Working Group prior to this Cabinet meeting, as detailed below:

1.     Biodiversity First Duty Report

2.     Particulate Monitoring Report

3.     Homelessness Prevention, Rough Sleeper and Domestic Abuse Grants Funding 2027/28 and 2028/29 Report

4.     Business Rates Discretionary Rates Relief Policy 2026-2027 Report

5.     Council Tax Base Report 2026/27 Report

6.     Council Tax Empty Homes Discounts and Premiums 2026-27 Report

7.     Council Tax Support Scheme 2026/27 Report

No further recommendations had been made as a result of this pre-scrutiny. The Chairman of the Board stated, however that the Board were very keen for Cabinet to agree all of the recommendations included within the reports that had been pre-scrutinised.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the Overview and Scrutiny Board meeting held on 18^th November 2025 be noted.