Issue - meetings
Questions from County Councillors
Meeting: 19/03/2019 - Cabinet (Item 19)
19 Questions from County Councillors 
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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 Bartholomew:
“What is the grant for 2019-20 for the Youth Offending Team in Oxfordshire from central government and how does it compare to the grant for last year from the government?”
Councillor Bartholomew replied:
“We have not had the figure for 2019/20 – we expect to receive notification in May – so cannot offer a comparison.”
Supplementary: In response to a further question Councillor Bartholomew agreed that the late announcement of grant funding did frustrate the efficient running of the Council’s finances.
Councillor Pressel had given notice of the following question to Councillor Constance:
“In our response To the Oxfordshire Plan 2050, please ask for much more emphasis on the need to combat climate change. This needs to be included in the Vision (which mentions only the need to build in resilience) and it needs to run like a golden thread through the whole document. Our future depends on it!
We can include a comment along these lines in our final response on the Oxfordshire Plan 2050.
Councillor Pressel had given notice of the following question to Councillor Constance:
“I was surprised and disappointed to find that one can’t respond to the consultation on the Oxfordshire Plan through our website. Please can this be remedied?”
“The Oxfordshire Plan 2050 process is the responsibility of the Growth Board. OCC is a consultee in this process and so it would not be appropriate for us to hold the consultation on our website.
For this stage of the consultation however (up to 25 March) OCC has been promoting the opportunity to respond to the consultation via OCC’s Facebook page and via its Twitter feed. We will continue to do this in future consultations.”