Agenda and minutes

Apologies for absence were submitted on behalf of Councillors Henry Caunce, Mick Davies, Mike Devaney, Thomas McGowan.

Members are reminded of their responsibility to declare any personal interest in respect of matters contained in this agenda. If the interest arises only as result of your membership of another public body or one to which you have been appointed by the Council then you only need to declare it if you intend to speak.

If the personal interest is a prejudicial interest, you must withdraw from the meeting. Normally you should leave the room before the business starts to be discussed. You do, however, have the same right to speak as a member of the public and may remain in the room to enable you to exercise that right and then leave immediately. In either case you must not seek to improperly influence a decision on the matter.

There were no declarations of interest by Members relating to the items on the agenda.

Members of the public who have requested the opportunity to ask a question(s) on an item(s) on the agenda will be asked to put their question(s) to the Panel. Each member of the public will be allowed to ask one supplementary question within his/her allocated 3 minutes.  

No members of the public requested to speak at the meeting.

To determine and allocate the questions for the feedback session. 

Members considered the draft questions and allocated questions to each Member for the ensuing feedback session.

RESOLVED – That the questions be set as below:

1.            Please could you outline the responsibilities within your role?

2.            How do you feel this council has performed in relation to the delivery of its efficiency targets set for the 04 Spending Review period compared with other Local Authorities?

3.            How would you assess our approach to delivering and improving value for money and are there any efficiency areas where you feel we might have had a greater focus on?

4.            What are your views on the targets set by the Government for the Comprehensive Spending Review 07 period?

5.            How would you assess Chorley’s readiness to deliver against these targets?

To receive feedback from Mike Thomas (Audit Commission).

The Chair welcomed Mike Thomas from the Audit Commission to the meeting and thanked him for attending the meeting.  The feed back session comprised questions and answers collated into a schedule enabling comparison with those responses given by other officers.