[Councillor Luke Halpin arrived
at 5.08pm during the consideration of this item and prior to the
vote being taken].
The Committee received report
number: OAS/WS/23/011, which updated members on the current status
of its rolling work programme of items for scrutiny during
2020-2021 (Appendix 1).
Attached at Appendix 2
was the scoping document and key lines of enquiry document for the
Abbeycroft Leisure Strategic Partnership Review and terms of
reference at Appendix 3.
Also attached at
Appendices 4 to 6 were the work programme suggestion form, scoping
document and key lines of enquiry document and terms of reference
for the Infrastructure and Transport review.
The Committee considered and
noted the current states of its rolling work
programme and requested an update report on the Council’s
approach to Modern-Day Slavery to be presented to the Committee at
its September 2023 meeting. The
previous administration had agreed to set up a Modern-Day Slavery
Working Group in November 2020 following the government’s
announcement in September 2020 on new guidance, which the
government had yet to legislate.
The Committee then considered in detail the
proposed Transport and Infrastructure Review and asked questions to
which responses were provided. In
particular discussions were held on public transport and electric
vehicles. As part of the discussions,
the Committee suggested broadband provision should be included as a
utility service in Appendix 5 under “views from external
expert advisors” which officers agreed to include.
The Committee considered the proposed
Abbeycroft Leisure Strategic Review and did not make any amendments
to the terms of reference or scoping document.
Nominations were then sort for the Abbeycroft
Leisure Strategic Review and the Transport and Infrastructure
Review Task and Finish Groups.
The Chair informed the Committee that she was
concerned about a recent Panorama programme on CCTV cameras which had raised data security issues
with the Chinese made equipment (Hikvision), whereby a number of
councils who had this brand were now replacing them. She suggested inviting the Cabinet Member for
Operations, Councillor David Taylor to the Committee’s
September 2023 meeting to find out whether the Council had any
Hikvision CCTV equipment; if so whether they were being replaced;
where the servers stored the data; and to provide a general
overview of the Council’s CCTV system.
It was then proposed by Councillor Andrew
Smith, duly seconded by Councillor Julia Wakelam, and with the vote
being unanimous:
RESOLVED, That
1)
The Abbeycroft Leisure Strategic Partnership Review be included
into the Committee’s forward work programme for 2023 to
2024.
2)
The scoping document and key lines of enquiry document for the
Abbeycroft Leisure Strategic Partnership Review be
approved.
3)
The terms of reference for the Abbeycroft Leisure Strategic
Partnership Review be approved, and
-
Councillor Sarah Broughton;
-
Councillor Rowena Lindberg;
-
Councillor Marion Rushbrook be appointed to sit on the Task and
Finish Group.
Note: The Chair agreed to
email non- scrutiny councillors following the meeting to seek two
volunteers who would be interested in sitting on the Task and
Finish Group.
4)
The Transport ...
view the full minutes text for item 233.