Issue - meetings

Report of the Director – Finance and Corporate Services

Four scrutiny requests had been submitted for consideration as follows:

Metropolitan and Trent Valley Housing (repeat request), submitted by Councillor Parekh. Councillor Parekh in her request had stated that there had been many unanswered questions from the previous meeting with MTVH and felt the topic needed further scrutiny to allow MTVH to provide their response.

The Group agreed for the request to come forward for scrutiny and for it to be scheduled into the Communities Scrutiny Group work programme in October 2026. 

East Midlands Freeport (repeat request), submitted by Councillor Combellack.

The Group agreed for the request to come forward for scrutiny and for it to be scheduled into the Growth and Development Scrutiny work programme in July 2026.

Road Sweeping, its effectiveness and efficiency, submitted by Councillor Gowland. It was noted that there is a County Council element to road sweeping, however, Councillor Guant suggested the Council could scrutinise the Boroughs influence around street cleansing.

The Group agreed for the request to come forward for scrutiny and for it to be scheduled into a future meeting of Communities Scrutiny Group.

Article 4 Direction, submitted by Officers from Cabinet on 10 February 2026.

The Assistant Director for Corporate Services explained that the Article 4 Direction needed to be considered at the July meeting of Communities Scrutiny Group in line with the Cabinet recommendation. She added that she expected a request for scrutiny to take place at the same meeting for two policy related changes that are being proposed as part of the March Budget and asked the Group to agree these in principle so that space on the agenda could be reserved. She reassured the Group that scrutiny requests outlining Key lines of Enquiry would be available at the June meeting of Corporate Overview Group.

The Assistant Director for Corporate Services advised the Group that as the Strategic Tasks had been discussed at this meeting these would not be reported at the meeting of Corporate Overview in June 2026 and for an update and review to be scheduled in a year’s time.

It was RESOLVED that the Corporate Overview Group:

a)    Considered any additional items for scrutiny from current Cabinet Forward Plan, Corporate Strategy, Medium Term Financial Strategy, Capital and Investment Strategy and Transformation and Efficiency Programme (Appendix One)

b)    Determine any additional topics to be included in a scrutiny group work programme for 2026/27 for each of the scrutiny groups as presented on newly submitted scrutiny requests (Appendix Two)

c)     Review the current work programme for each of the scrutiny groups (Appendix Three)

Work Programme 2026/27 Corporate Overview Group