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Cabinet Member: Deputy Leader of the Council

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/319

Contact: Steve Burdis, Group Manager - Waste Contracts

Steve.burdis@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Corporate Director Environment & Place

The information in this case is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed categories:

3. Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that a negotiation is ongoing and would prejudice the position of the authority in the process of that negotiation and the Council’s standing generally in relation to such matters in future, to the detriment of the Council’s ability properly to discharge its fiduciary and other duties as a public authority.

The annexes containing exempt information under the above paragraph are attached.

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to

a)                  Approve changes to the charging scheme for DIY waste which is deposited at the Household Waste Recycling Centres in Oxfordshire, with effect from 31^st December 2023 and as a direct result of a change in law by Government.

b)                  Approve that Officers be tasked with negotiating immediate variations to the Household Waste Recycling Centre contracts with Geoffrey Thompson (trading as W&S Recycling) and FCC to account for the operational and commercial impacts of this change in law.

c)                  Approve that Officers be tasked with developing longer-term solutions to minimise the increase in costs and potential reduction to recycling rates resulting from this change in law.  Should the longer-term solutions involve other Key Decisions, these will be proposed to CMD in separate reports.

Recommendations approved.