Agenda item

Consideration of Scrutiny Group Work Programmes

Report of the Director – Finance and Corporate Services

Minutes:

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

XX June 2026	· Standing Items o Feedback from Scrutiny Group Chairs o Feedback from Lead Officer o Consideration of Scrutiny Group Work Programmes o Financial and Performance Management · Rolling Items o Diversity Annual Report and Update on the Equality and Diversity Strategy
XX September 2026	· Standing Items o Feedback from Scrutiny Group Chairs o Feedback from Lead Officer o Consideration of Scrutiny Group Work Programmes o Financial and Performance Management · Rolling Items o Health and Safety Annual Report
XX November 2026	· Standing Items o Feedback from Scrutiny Group Chairs o Feedback from Lead Officer o Consideration of Scrutiny Group Work Programmes o Financial and Performance Management · Rolling Items o Customer Feedback Annual Report
XX February 2027	· Standing Items o Feedback from Scrutiny Group Chairs o Feedback from Lead Officer o Consideration of Scrutiny Group Work Programmes o Financial and Performance Management · Rolling Items o Corporate Strategy Update on Strategic Tasks

Work Programme 2026/27 Governance Scrutiny Group

XX June 2026	· Annual Fraud Report · Annual Governance Statement (AGS) · Internal Audit Progress Report Q4 · Internal Audit Annual Report · Code of Conduct · Investment Property Review · Constitution Update · Capital and Investment Strategy Outturn Q4 · Asset Management Plan · Procurement Strategy
XX September 2026	· Risk Management Update · Going Concern · Capital and Investment Strategy Update Q1 · Internal Audit Progress Report Q1
XX November 2026	· Internal Audit Progress Report Q2 · Capital and Investment Strategy Update Q2 · RIPA Report
XX February 2027	· Internal Audit Progress Report Q3 · Internal Audit Strategy · External Audit annual Plan · Capital and Investment Strategy Q3 · Capital and Investment Strategy 2027/28 · Risk Management Update

Work Programme 2025/26 and 2026/27 Growth and Development Scrutiny Group

25 March 2026	· Shared Ownership and Other Affordable Housing
XX July 2026	· East Midlands Freeport (Update)
XX October 2026	· Nothing on the Programme
XX January 2027	· Nothing on the Programme
XX March 2027	· Nothing on the Programme

Work Programme 2025/26 and 2026/27 Communities Scrutiny Group

2 April 2026	· Carbon Management Plan (Update) · West Bridgford Contact Point
XX July 2026	· Article 4 Direction · Council Tax Policy Changes (second homes premiums and discounts for terminally ill residents)
XX October 2026	· Metropolitan Trent Valley Housing (Update)
XX January 2027	· Review of Debt Collection Agents · Road Sweeping
XX April 2027	· Nothing on the Programme

Actions 24 February 2026

Minute No	Action	Officer Responsible
26	Councillor Plant requested a breakdown of usage figures for East Leake leisure centre in comparison to the Council’s other leisure centres	Team Manager for Leisure Contracts
26	Councillor Plant requested details on the warm homes grant including costs and how many residents have benefited from the grant	Senior Financial Business Parter

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