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Disclosure of Personal and Prejudicial Interests Minutes: There were no disclosures of Personal and Prejudicial Interests. |
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Prohibition of Whipped Votes and Declaration of Party Whips Minutes: None. |
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To receive the minutes of the previous meeting(s) and agree as an accurate record. Additional documents: Minutes: Minutes of the previous Service Improvement
and Finance and Development and Regeneration Panels were agreed. |
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Public Questions Questions can be submitted in writing to Scrutiny scrutiny@swansea.gov.uk up until noon on the working day prior to the meeting. Written questions take precedence. Public may attend and ask questions in person if time allows. Questions must relate to items on the open part of the agenda and will be dealt with in a 10 minute period. Minutes: There were no public questions received. |
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Revenue Financial Outturn 2022/23 PDF 295 KB Cllr Rob Stewart - Cabinet Member for Economy, Finance and Strategy Ben Smith – Director of Finance / S.151 Officer Minutes: Ben Smith the Director of Finance and Section
151 Officer presented the report followed by questions and discussion. · Overall, the Outturn
demonstrates that all Directorates have an underspend against their service
budgets, with requests for nearly £14m of the £18m service underspend to be
carried over to 2023/24. · There is an
underspend on revenue costs of servicing capital financing of £8.6m due to
slippage, borrowing at low sub 2% rates and temporary loaning out of surplus
cash at variable rates of above 5%. · £2m has been drawn
from earmarked reserves plus £8m drawn from schools’ reserves which is lower
than originally assumed but is not a sustainable financial position going
forward. · Council tax showed a
small surplus of £32,000. · The Oracle Project has carried over £3.8m to
this financial year. · Council have approved
borrowing of a further £50m for future developments and £25m for the Mumbles
Coastal Risk Management Programme Scheme, however there are no plans to borrow
this in the short term until interest rates have materially lowered. · There are substantial
persistent inflation pressures, unresolved pay awards and an increase in energy
costs in 2023/24. |
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Revenue Outturn 2022/23 - Housing Revenue Account (HRA) PDF 171 KB Cllr Rob Stewart - Cabinet Member for Economy, Finance and Strategy Ben Smith – Director of Finance / S.151 Officer Minutes: Ben Smith presented the report followed by
questions and discussion. ·
Slippage on the capital programme has resulted in an
underspend on revenue financing of capital of around £6m, this will roll
forward into next year. ·
Rental income has increased by £1.2m compared to the
budget. ·
Housing Revenue is always ringfenced for spending only
on Council Housing. |
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Annual Performance Monitoring Report 2022/2023 PDF 117 KB Cllr David Hopkins – Cabinet Member for Corporate Services
& Performance Richard Rowlands – Strategic Delivery & Performance
Manager Additional documents: Minutes: Cllr David Hopkins, Cabinet Member for
Corporate Services and Performance and Richard Rowlands Corporate Performance
Manager presented the report followed by questions and discussion. ·
The
report demonstrates an overall improvement with affects
of the pandemic still evident. ·
In
relation to performance against targets out of 49 indicators, 25 met or
bettered their targets, 3 missed their target but were within 5% and 8 missed
their targets. The remaining 13 had no targets. ·
In
relation to performance compared to same period of the previous year out of 49
indicators, 22 show improving
or maintaining performance, 2 show declining performance
but within 5% and 15 show declining performance trends. The remaining 10
indicators are new therefore there is no historical data. ·
The
performance areas with no targets or historical data are mainly the result of a new national social
services performance framework introduced by Welsh Government. ·
An
update on policy commitments has been completed and performance indicators have
been reviewed following the development of the new corporate plan. The revised
suite will be reported from the first quarter of the new year. |
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Annual Review of Performance 2022/2023 PDF 153 KB Cllr David Hopkins – Cabinet Member for Corporate Services
& Performance Richard Rowlands – Strategic Delivery & Performance
Manager Additional documents:
Minutes: Cllr David Hopkins and Richard Rowlands
presented the report followed by questions and discussion. ·
This
report differs to item 7 by giving a broader perspective looking at wellbeing
objectives and the corporate plan. The report also meets duties as required by
the Local Government and Elections Act 2021 and the Wellbeing of Future
Generations (Wales) Act 2015. ·
Overall
progress and the prospects of improvement are assessed using criteria outcomes
for each of the six wellbeing objectives using self-reflection tools by each
lead Director/Head of Service which are then challenged by a strategic
governance group. ·
Areas
for improvement that were identified last year by Audit Wales, Scrutiny and
Governance and Audit Committee have been addressed in this year's review. |
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Draft Work Plan 2023/24 PDF 126 KB Minutes: The Panel agreed the draft plan for 2023/24.
The Chair noted that instead of a regular quarterly progress / monitoring
report there would be a focus on specific regeneration projects chosen by the
Panel. |
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Additional documents: |
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Exclusion of the Public PDF 142 KB Minutes: The public were excluded from the meeting on
the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as set
out in Paragraph 14 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended
by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) (Wales) Order 2007. |
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Copr Bay Development (Verbal) Minutes: Martin Nicholls, Chief Executive provided a statement including the
following information, this was followed by a closed session. · On the 18 August, Buckingham Group issued a notice of its intention to
appoint an administrator. Much of the business formally entered administration
on 4 September. At the time of this meeting no contact has yet been made with
the administrator. · There have been ongoing challenges with the delivery of the car park
however the other elements have been completed and handed over. Legal advice is
being taken with a view to getting the project completed as swiftly as
possible. · Officers and Members will work to identify a suitable contractor and
timescale to deliver the remaining works, utilising the remaining available
budget. |
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Letter to Cabinet Member - Economy, Finance & Strategy (Leader) PDF 122 KB |
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Letter to Cabinet Member - Corporate Services and Performance PDF 121 KB |
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Letter to Cabinet Member - Investment, Regeneration, Events and Tourism PDF 93 KB |