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ITEM CC12 - ANNEX

COUNTY COUNCIL - 18 JUNE 2002

QUESTIONS WITH NOTICE FROM MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL

 

Questions are listed in the order in which they were received. The time allowed for this agenda item will not exceed 30 minutes. Should any questions not have received an answer in that time, a written answer will be provided.

  1. QUESTION BY COUNCILLOR BRIAN LAW TO COUNCILLOR MARGARET GODDEN, DEPUTY LEADER OF THE COUNCIL

    2. The number of sheets of paper used in the Duplicating Unit was 435,365 in January to May 2002 compared with 219,730 in the corresponding period of 2001, an increase of 98 percent.

    Has the Deputy Leader any comment on this presumed consequence of Modernisation? In particular has she any suggestions on how the volume of reports, etc. circulated to Members can be reduced?

  2. QUESTION BY COUNCILLOR BRIAN HODGSON TO COUNCILLOR KEITH R. MITCHELL, LEADER OF THE COUNCIL

    3. At the Executive meeting on 17 April 2002, the motion passed by the County Council on 2 April in relation to Asthma policy was amended by the Executive. At the same time, you undertook to write to BMW at Cowley and other local motor manufacturers in relation to developing vehicles using fuels not based on carbon. What replies have you received?

    ANSWER

    I wrote to the Managing Director of BMW on 30 May. I am not aware of any other local manufacturers to contact. I have not yet received a reply but will circulate it as soon as I do.

  3. QUESTION BY COUNCILLOR BRIAN HODGSON TO COUNCILLOR KEITH R MITCHELL, LEADER OF THE COUNCIL

    4. At the Council meeting on 2 April, I accepted your amendment to my motion on the potential impact on local councils of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The amendment changed the proposal to write to the Government about our concerns to a decision to write to the Local Government Association about the issue. What has the LGA said in reply?

    ANSWER

    I wrote to Brian Briscoe of the LGA on 31 May. I have not yet received a reply but will circulate it as soon as I do.

  4. QUESTION BY COUNCILLOR MACKENZIE TO COUNCILLOR KEITH R. MITCHELL, LEADER OF THE COUNCIL

    5. What does the Executive propose to offer, in place of the facilities for severely disabled children currently provided by the three resource centres, if those centres were to be closed?

  5. QUESTION BY COUNCILLOR OLIVE MCINTOSH-STEDMAN TO COUNCILLOR TONY CRABBE, EXECUTIVE MEMBER FOR SCHOOLS

    6. In the Acting Chief Education Officer’s report to the Executive on 28 May in relation to the Green Paper ’14 – 19: Extending Opportunities, Raising Standards’, why is there no mention of support for pupils/young people desiring to go to University or support for scholarship to University?

  6. QUESTION BY COUNCILLOR CHRIS ROBINS TO COUNCILLOR ANNE PURSE, EXECUTIVE MEMBER FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
    7.

Would the Executive Member for Strategic Planning please advise the Council:

  1. whether any representations have been received advocating any change to the Green Belt around Oxford or to Green Belt Policy,

  2. if so, the nature of any change advocated, and

  3. whether the Executive is minded to incorporate any such changes into the current Strategic Plan review

  1. QUESTION BY COUNCILLOR MACKENZIE TO COUNCILLOR KEITH MITCHELL, LEADER OF THE COUNCIL
    2.

    Why has no progress been made, apparently, in sorting out the nonsense of the transport of children from Sutton Courtenay to Didcot schools?

  2. QUESTION BY COUNCILLOR BRIAN HODGSON TO COUNCILLOR ANNE PURSE, EXECUTIVE MEMBER FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
    3.

    Upper Heyford has been a major USAF base since 1950, with nuclear weapons stored there. It would hardly be surprising if there were not military hazards that still require attention and either removal or making safe. It is this possibility that makes it imperative that full reports (not excerpts) on the Environment at Upper Heyford are provided for the County Council. (The possible environmental hazards include damage to deep water aquifers from leaking underground aviation fuel tanks; waste oils; solvents; pesticides; organic solvents and industrial sludge.)

    In view of the refusal of the UK MOD and the American Department of Defense to provide the full Environmental Status Report (ESR) and other Reports requested by Oxfordshire County Council between 1995 and 1997 and required by law in both countries, is the Executive satisfied that development of the site will be free from danger to anyone working on the site or to those living and working there in the future?

  3. QUESTION BY COUNCILLOR BARBARA GATEHOUSE TO COUNCILLOR DON SEALE, EXECUTIVE MEMBER FOR COMMUNITY CARE AND HEALTH
    4.

Can the Executive give the families of the children using the three respite care centres a clear indication of the consultation process, including key dates?

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