The Chair provided a report which explained the process of developing and managing the scrutiny work programme for the Municipal Year. The Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee, in cooperation with the other three Overview and Scrutiny Committees, was responsible for proposing and delivering an annual work programme which should align with the corporate priorities of the Council, in particular the delivery of Wirral Plan pledges relevant to the work of the Committee.

The work programme was formed from a combination of scrutiny reviews, standing items on committee agenda and reports requested from Officers.  The report provided the Committee with an opportunity to plan and regularly review its work across the Municipal Year.

Further to the submitted report, the following amendments to the attached work programme were considered:

·  the need to include the agreed Task and Finish Group to consider Economic Viability Assessments and the Community Infrastructure Levy, with a consideration to be given to one or two members of the Planning Committee joining the Group;

·  comments of Members that the suggested date of March 2018 for submission of a final report from the Modern Slavery Scrutiny Review (paragraph 3.4 to the submitted report refers) was not realistic, and that the Group needed to re-convene to clarify the current position and consider where to go next; and

·  Officers indicated that they would report to the next meeting of the Committee in March 2018 in respect of the Notice of Motion on the use of Single Use Plastics (paragraph 3.4 to the submitted report refers).

RESOLVED:

That, subject to amendments as indicated within the preamble to this Minute relating to a Task and Finish Group to consider Economic Viability Assessments and the Community Infrastructure Levy, the Modern Slavery Scrutiny Review, and the progression of the Notice of Motion on the use of Single Use Plastics, the submitted Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee Work Programme for 2017/18, be approved.