Issue - meetings

There were none.

The Council noted that in accordance with Procedure Rule 6(2) two questions had been received from Councillor C Swain.  A copy of the questions along with the responses from the Chairman of the Council were circulated prior to the meeting.

The questions and the responses are as follows:

Question one:

What has been the amount of identifiable expenditure attributable to the Transformation Programme (including redundancy payments) to date, and what is the eventual total expected to be?

Response from the Chairman of the Council:

The Section 151 Officer will be providing a budget up to the Transformation Board tomorrow (Friday 4 October 2019).  The detail will then be available via the Minutes of the meeting which are made available to Members.

Question two:

How many officers and employees who were on the payroll when the Transformation Programme was initiated are still with the Council?

Response from the Chairman of the Council:

Originally 259 of which 174 are still on payroll.

There were none.