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Questions from County Councillors

 

 

Meeting: 17/07/2018 - Cabinet (Item 70)

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Any county councillor may, by giving notice to the Proper Officer by 9 am two working days before the meeting, ask a question on any matter in respect of the Cabinet’s delegated powers.

 

The number of questions which may be asked by any councillor at any one meeting is limited to two (or one question with notice and a supplementary question at the meeting) and the time for questions will be limited to 30 minutes in total. As with questions at Council, any questions which remain unanswered at the end of this item will receive a written response.

 

Questions submitted prior to the agenda being despatched are shown below and will be the subject of a response from the appropriate Cabinet Member or such other councillor or officer as is determined by the Cabinet Member, and shall not be the subject of further debate at this meeting. Questions received after the despatch of the agenda, but before the deadline, will be shown on the Schedule of Addenda circulated at the meeting, together with any written response which is available at that time.

Decision:

See attached annex.

Minutes:

Councillor Howson had given notice of the following question to Councillor Constance:

 

“So far in the current financial year how much has been levied by way of fines on utility companies and will you provide the information by company and county division please.”

 

Councillor Constance replied:

 

“We have received approximately £150k in “fines” since 1 April 2018, £60k of which coming from one site on the Oxford Ring Road. We do not record income down to specific divisions.”

 

Supplementary: In response to a suggestion that the figure be broken down by utilities and placed in the public domain, Councillor Constance replied that she would consider it and discuss with officers.

 

Councillor Phillips had given notice of the following question to Councillor Hudspeth:

 

'On 18 July 2017 Council supported a motion which 'asks the Cabinet to work with Political Group Leaders to come forward with a plan to replace the Cabinet with a committee structure or alternative governance and committee models which could further strengthen the work of the council'

 

Would the Cabinet member provide an update on this work and the date when the plan will come forward?'

 

Councillor Hudspeth replied:

 

“There is a cross party working group led by Cllr Heathcoat which has made several visits to authorities with different governance models to ensure that all possible options are investigated.

 

The cross party working group will report back to cabinet once or if they have any recommendations for cabinet to consider.”

 

Supplementary: Councillor Phillips pressed the Leader to provide a date when it would come back to Cabinet. Councillor Hudspeth indicated that work was ongoing with the cross party working group including a number of visits and he could not provide a date at this time. Councillor Phillips noted that the next meeting of the group had been cancelled and asked that he press for a result.