RESOLVED:

1.            That the Speaker of the Council, Councillor Ayas Miah, is elected as administrative Chair of the Committee, for the purposes of this Meeting only.

To note any declarations of interest made by Members, including those restricting Members from voting on the questions detailed in Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act, 1992.  See attached note from the Interim Monitoring Officer.

There were no declarations of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests.

The Committee received a report regarding the establishment of the Scrutiny Sub-Committees and Appointment of Members to those Sub-Committees.

The Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee advised of the nominations for the Scrutiny Leads and portfolios as set out in resolution 1 below.

Councillor Kevin Brady moved and Councillor Abdal Ullah seconded the following amendment to the Grants Scrutiny Sub-Committee Terms of Reference.

Amendment – 3.1 (Grants Scrutiny Sub-Committee – Terms of Reference)

It is proposed to amend paragraph 3.1 of the report, to change the membership of the sub-committee from being drawn strictly from the main O&S committee, to being drawn from the council. This would bring the sub-committee in line with the health scrutiny and housing scrutiny committees, and would retain the same political balance.

The amendment also increases the number of members from three to six, in line with the allocation of places report included as part of the council’s Annual General Meeting.

Proposed amendment to the terms of reference (deleted text scored out, added text underlined):

“The membership of the Grants Sub-Committee will consist of the Lead Member for Resources (or his nominated Deputy) as Chair of the Grants Sub-Committee, with the composition consisting of three six Members of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee. council, in line with proportionality rules.”

The amendment was voted on and agreed. 

The Chair Moved and it was:-

RESOLVED

1.            That the following Members be appointed to the Scrutiny Leads posts as set out in Section 3 of the report.

Lead for Health, Adults and Community - Councillor Kahar Chowdhury

Lead for Place - Councillor Dipa Das

Lead for Children’s Services -  CouncillorSufia Alam

Lead for Resources - Councillor Marc Francis

            Lead for Governance - Councillor Mohammed Pappu

2.            To note the co-option to the membership of the OSC of representatives in respect of education matters, as set out at Paragraphs 3.3 to 3.9 of the report.

3.            To establish the Sub-Committee with Terms of Reference (Attached at Appendix 2 to the report) subject to the following amendment to the Grants Scrutiny Sub-Committee terms of reference.

The membership of the Grants Sub-Committee will consist of the Lead Member for Resources (or his nominated Deputy) as Chair of the Grants Sub-Committee, with the composition consisting of six Members of the council, in line with proportionality rules.

4.            That the following Councillors be appointed to Chair the above Sub-Committees:

Health Scrutiny Sub-Committee - Councillor Kahar Chowdhury

            Housing Scrutiny Sub-Committee - Councillor Dipa Das

            Grants Scrutiny-Sub-Committee - Councillor Marc Francis