Issue - meetings

Report of Director of Service Delivery

Lead Cabinet member: Councillor Alan Shuttleworth

Recommended to Full Council (Budget and policy framework):

(1) To recommend to Full Council that the 2022/23 Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme be adopted as the 2023/24 scheme.

(2) Subject to Full Council adoption of the Scheme, Cabinet grants the Director of Service Delivery delegated authority–

(a) to implement the Scheme, such delegated authority to include any measures necessary for or incidental to its management and administration; and

(b) if necessary, and in accordance with paragraph 2.3, to amend the Scheme in consultation with the Lead Member for Direct Assistance Services.

(3) That the Exceptional Hardship Scheme continues in 2023/24 subject to funds being available.

The Cabinet considered the report of the Director of Service Delivery, seeking their recommendation to Full Council that the 2022/23 Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme is adopted as the 2023/24 scheme.

Thanks were expressed to the Scrutiny Committee for their observations at the meeting on 5 December 2022.

Recommended to Full Council (Budget and policy framework):

(1) To recommend to Full Council that the 2022/23 Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme be adopted as the 2023/24 scheme.

(2) Subject to Full Council adoption of the Scheme, Cabinet grants the Director of Service Delivery delegated authority–

(a) to implement the Scheme, such delegated authority to include any measures necessary for or incidental to its management and administration; and

(b) if necessary, and in accordance with paragraph 2.3, to amend the Scheme in consultation with the Lead Member for Direct Assistance Services.

(3) That the Exceptional Hardship Scheme continues in 2023/24 subject to funds being available.

Reason for decisions:

The Council must review the scheme each year and adopt a scheme for the coming financial year.