east midlands scrutiny network
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East Midlands Scrutiny Network
FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER
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Commercialism at Nottingham
City Council
The Nottingham Journey
Rav Kalsi
Senior Governance Officer
Nottingham City Council
Perceptions?
Commercialism - Part of our future
Companies we already own
(or part-own)
Commercialism in action
Commercial potential
Integrated Facilities Management
Compete
Diversify
Moving into new markets
Roles, skills and culture
Main Trading Services
80/20 rule suggests this is
where our focus should be
Turnover Income
Adults Provision 16.677 2.304
Royal Centre 13.297 13.287
Property Services 12.899 12.899
Catering & Building Cleaning 11.061 10.517
Highways 8.369 7.935
Car Parks 8.244 8.244
Enviro Energy 7.758 7.758
Leisure 6.031 4.489
Passenger Transport 5.169 5.002
Museums 4.49 2.255
Commercial Waste 4.265 4.265
Cems & Crems 1.926 1.926
Markets 1.535 1.535
Garage Services 1.262 1.035
Total 102.983 83.451
(Business Units >£1M income pa)
What about scrutiny?
• Broader point on attitude shift
• Efficiency in the way scrutiny is carried out
Clearly demonstrating to Executive/Cabinet what
scrutiny’s value is
• Targeted work programme
• Efficiencies in member involvement and circulation of
papers
Contact details
Rav Kalsi
Nottingham City Council
0115 8763759
Budget Scrutiny at Northamptonshire County Council
James EdmundsDemocratic Services Assistant Manager &
Statutory Scrutiny Officer
O&S committee structure
• 4 x O&S committees:
- Children, Learning & Communities
- Environment, Development & Transport
- Finance & Resources
- Health, Adult Care & Wellbeing
• 1 x Scrutiny Management Committee
• O&S committees have 10 NCC members, chairsshared proportionally, 4 meetings per year
December
Draft budget headlines agreed by Cabinet
Introductory Budget Scrutiny workshop
Budget Scrutiny WG challenge meetings
Budget Scrutiny WG agrees draft report
F&R Scrutiny Committee agrees report
Budget Scrutiny Review report and
response presented to Cabinet
January
February
March - NovemberContinuing finance- and service-focussed
O&S work
Budget Scrutiny Review process
Key principles
• Focus should be on the deliverability of the draftbudget proposals agreed by the Cabinet
• May question the viability of proposals, but doesnot set out to produce an alternative budget
• Recommendations should be evidence-basedand objective, not emotive
• Budget Scrutiny is about what can be done inthe time available: it has a very fixed end point.
Waste collection and treatment
• More collaboration with district and boroughcouncils to deliver £7m savings in 2015/16
• Considered by Scrutiny, with external evidence
• Scrutiny’s recommendations to Cabinet:
- Supported the potential for savings
- Concluded that £7m was not achievable in one year
- Recommended that charging at HWRCs would becounterproductive and should not be introduced
• Revisited by O&S as part of finance- andservice-focussed scrutiny in 2015/16.
Areas for discussion
• Approach to finance scrutiny: centrally-led ordone across different scrutiny committees
• Approach to budget scrutiny: done with privateworking groups or public committee meetings
• Public involvement in budget scrutiny andco-ordination with corporate consultation
• Scrutiny of alternative budgets
Devolution in the East Midlands
FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER
East Midlands Devolution Update
Bids in the East Midlands
D2N2 - Derby & Derbyshire and Nottingham &
Nottinghamshire (2 bids)
Leicester and Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Derby & Derbyshire and
Nottingham & Nottinghamshire
Derby & Derbyshire combined authority bid
Nottingham & Nottinghamshire combined authority bid
Five theme – the two areas worked together to set out the ambition for the area
1. Transport
2. Skills to Employment
3. Enterprise
4. Built Environment
5. SMART
High profile asks
Free Trade Zone
Investment Fund
London Style Transport Powers
Derby & Derbyshire and
Nottingham & Nottinghamshire
Enterprise 1 – Free Trade Zone
Delivering a prestigious, flagship proposal that will enhance the UK’s global reputation as being ‘open to business’ and ‘open for business’
Enterprise 2 – Investment Fund
Driving the productivity of the D2N2 economy – fixing the ‘challenge of our times’
Enterprise 3 – Supply chain productivity
Driving the productivity of the D2N2 economy – the establishment of dedicated resource (people and support programmes) to specific OEM / Supply Chain development
Enterprise 4 – Local integrated business support ecosystem
To provide expert, co-ordinated and integrated support to existing and new business, to ensure they thrive
Derby & Derbyshire and
Nottingham & Nottinghamshire
Built Environment 1 - Enabling Housing Delivery (HIF)
To enable the acceleration and increase in housing and employment provision, tackling the barriers of inhibitive market conditions, creating great places and strong communities
Built Environment 2 - Enabling Housing Delivery (HRA)
For local authorities to optimise their resources in pursuit of, and for Government to better capitalise on local authorities’ appetite for, housing delivery.
Built Environment 3 - Enabling Housing Delivery (Right to Buy)
To increase the delivery of affordable housing and D2N2’s contribution to the 1 for 1 replacement element of Government’s reinvigorated Right To Buy (RTB)
Built Environment 4 - One Public Estate
To provide a comprehensive, co-ordinated and strategic approach to development and regeneration activity in D2N2, maximise value for money returns on available public sector assets and enable the acceleration/ increase of housing and employment development to support growth
Built Environment 5 - Speeding up planning processes
Creating and building great places where people want to live, work and invest
Derby & Derbyshire and
Nottingham & Nottinghamshire
Skills to Employment 1 - Apprenticeships
Ensuring robust local leadership of the apprenticeship growth agenda to deliver 110,000 apprentices across D2N2 by 2020
Skills to Employment 2 - Careers
The creation of aspirational pathways for all young people through provision of a comprehensive and structured Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) offer
Skills to Employment 3 - Skills
Enhancing responsive local skills provision
Skills to Employment 4 - Employment Strategy
Local Funding and Services to support pathways to Employment
Derby & Derbyshire and
Nottingham & Nottinghamshire
Transport 1 – Midlands Connect& HS2
Robust and meaningful collaboration with key partner under Midlands Connect to deliver a shared and unified approach to the strategic transport interventions required to maximise the growth potential of the region and the UK as a whole
Transport 2 – 15 year transport settlement
To establish a long term investment programme to support D2N2 as a national exemplar for integrated transport as the way to improve productivity and support housing growth.
Transport 3 – Integrated public transport network
A 21st century public transport system with high quality modern services supported by integrated information and ticketing that allows easy interchange between transport modes across the whole D2N2 area
Transport 4 – Traffic management powers
Simplification of the process of traffic regulation order making and taking on the powers to better manage traffic to make it more efficient and locally focused and thereby assist economic growth.
SMART 1 - SMART Infrastructure
To establish the D2N2 region as the national exemplar for digital and energy infrastructure
Leicester and Leicestershire
Purpose – enable the delivery of investment plans for Planning, Transport and skills
Planning: councils working together to agree a clearer, long-term framework to meet future housing and employment needs for the whole area and identify future growth locations
Transport: focusing on long term investment in road, rail and other public transport infrastructure
Skills: driving and delivering skills and training, t give local people the chance to get better qualifications and employment
Involved authorities
County and City and the 7 districts
Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership – non-voting member
Leicester and Leicestershire cont.
Powers
Powers are held concurrently with constituent Councils,
no transfer to Combined Authority
Latest position
Final Scheme and Governance Review documents will
be prepared reflecting comments made during the
engagement exercise. These will be formally
considered by all 9 constituent councils during
November and December.
Lincolnshire Proposal
Ambition – We will grow the value of Greater Lincolnshire economy by £8bn; create 29,000 new jobs; deliver 100,000 new homes and redesign local services for the administration of justice, health and social care, flood and water management and public safety.
Accelerating economic growth
Improving transport links regionally, nationally and internationally
Tailoring skills to the needs of local employers to boost employment opportunities in the county
Managing flood risk
Meeting the housing needs of all our residents
Joining up health and care services to improve people’s health and wellbeing
Involves Lincolnshire’s district councils, Lincolnshire County Council and North and North East Lincolnshire councils.