The Leader of the Council informed the Cabinet of the following statistics:

The Cabinet was created as a result of the Local Government Act 2000 to include a Leader and up to ten Members.  The Council adopted the practice in January 2001.

Several meetings had over 40 items:

·  19-03-09 – 52

·  14-01-10 – 41

·  04-02-10 – 41

·  18-03-10 – 41

·  22-0-710 – 46

·  12-04-12 – 53

·  21-06-12 – 42

The Leader had changed four times: Councillor Steve Foulkes (to 2010), Councillor Jeff Green (to 2011), Councillor Phil Davies (to 2019), then CouncillorPat Hackett.

Since 4 January 2001, there had been:

·  330 Cabinet meetings.

·  50 different Councillors had sat on the Cabinet in that time, chaired by four different Leaders, Councillor Pat Hackett being the fourth.

·  930 Cabinet Member decisions had been taken.