Issue - meetings

RESOLVED:That the final position on delivery against the Corporate Business Plan be noted.

Reason for Decision

To consider progress with the delivery of the Corporate Business Plan for the period 1 October 2022 – 31 March 2023

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Cabinet was presented with a monitoring report to update Cabinet on progress against the Council’s Corporate Business Plan. The report contained information on progress made against the key actions up to the end of March 2023.

There were 48 actions in place to monitor performance against the Council’s Corporate Business Plan. The report indicated that 23 of the actions finished on track, 16 actions were slightly behind, 1 action was on hold and 8 actions have been completed. It was noted that additional performance information was available in the 2022/23 corporate performance monitoring report, reviewed at the Corporate Performance Panel on 21 June 2023. The report comprised of a suite of indicators agreed by portfolio holders and management team as the key performance measures to monitor the delivery of council services and impacts on borough wide issues. All indicators were linked to the Corporate Business Plan priorities.

Under standing order 34 Councillor Blunt commented that it was often had to see the evidence behind the indicators, he also considered that the commercial programme on housing delivery was on track and congratulated officers overall for their hard work in that period.

Councillor Beales thanked Councillor Blunt for his comments, and commented that he considered the report a useful “state of the nation” report  which highlighted the issues such as recruitment and retention issues.

Councillor Morley commented on the areas which he felt were behind schedule.

Councillor Kemp drew attention to the work starting on finalising the new corporate objectives on things such as working with partners on improving: housing conditions and standards, deprivation, health inequalities, social mobility, inclusion and skills.

Councillor de Whalley commented that he hoped progress could be made on the item assessing the impact of the council’s procurement which had been on hold awaiting legislative changes. 

Councillor Moriarty drew attention to the pre scrutiny of this item at the Corporate Performance Panel when it was considered.

RESOLVED:That the final position on delivery against the Corporate Business Plan be noted.

Reason for Decision

To consider progress with the delivery of the Corporate Business Plan for the period 1 October 2022 – 31 March 2023