Questions from County Councillors
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 Member’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:
Councillor Mark Cherry
Minutes:
Councillor Mark Cherry had given notice of the following question to Councillor Melinda Tilley:
“With the pressures on Oxfordshire County Council budget 17th February 2015, is it not a fact that some of the 44 children centres across Oxfordshire will face closure or at the very least face staff loses in favour of more volunteer workers.”
Councillor Melinda Tilley answered as follows:
“The means of securing the necessary savings in CEF have yet to be decided.
In relation to Children’s Centres, decisions will flow, in due course, from recommendations of the Cabinet Advisory Group on Early Intervention and it would not appropriate to pre-empt those recommendations.”