Decision details

The Cabinet will be asked to recommend to full Council the approval of the Treasury Management and Investment Strategy 2015/2016 and the Code of Practice, which must be undertaken before the start of each financial year.

RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL:

That:

(1)the Annual Treasury Management and Investment Strategy Statements 2015/2016, as contained in Appendix 1 to Report TMS/SE/15/002, be adopted; and

(2)the Head of Resources and Performance, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Resources and Performance and the Chairman of Treasury Management Sub-Committee, be given delegated authority to make amendments to the Treasury Management Investment Strategy, taking into account advice of the Council’s Treasury Management Advisors in response to changes to credit ratings resulting from the implied removal of sovereign support in the Bank of England’s ‘bail-in’ regulations.