Agenda

Minutes of the meeting of Cabinet held on 7 June 2022, as circulated, to be confirmed as a true record and signed by the Chair.

Unless already entered in the Council’s Register of Members’ interests, members are required where a matter arises at a meeting;

a.         Which directly relates to Disclosable Pecuniary Interest (‘DPI’) as set out in Appendix B, Table 1 of the Code of Conduct, to disclose the interest, not participate in any discussion or vote and not to remain in room. Where members have a DPI or if the matter concerns an executive function and is being considered by a Cabinet Member with a DPI they must notify the Monitoring Officer and arrange for somebody else to deal with the matter.

b.         Which directly relates to the financial interest or well being of a Other Registrable Interest as set out in Appendix B, Table 2 of the Code of Conduct to disclose the interest and only speak on the matter if members of the public are also allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain the room.

c.         Which directly relates to their financial interest or well-being (and is not DPI) or the financial well being of a relative or close associate, to declare the interest and members may only speak on the matter if members of the public are also allowed to speak. Otherwise, the member must not take part in discussion or vote on the matter and must leave the room.

d.         Which affects the financial well-being of the member, a relative or close associate or a body included under the Other Registrable Interests column in Table 2, to disclose the interest and apply the test set out at paragraph 9 of Appendix B before deciding whether they may remain in the meeting.

e.         Where Members have or a Cabinet Member has an Other Registerable Interest or Non Registerable Interest in a matter being considered in exercise of their executive function, they must notify the Monitoring Officer and arrange for somebody else to deal with it.

NB Any member needing clarification must contact monitoringofficer@northumberland.gov.uk. Members are referred to the Code of Conduct which contains the matters above in full. Please refer to the guidance on disclosures at the rear of this agenda letter.

Homes for Ukraine – Financial Support

The report provides an overview for Cabinet of the Homes for Ukraine Scheme, and requests approval to spend in advance of payment being received from Government to support the delivery of the required Local Authority commitments (Appendix A).

Advance Northumberland Ltd and its subsidiaries – Request For Reserved Matter Approval

To request formal Shareholder approval of Reserved Matters under the current Articles of Association of Advance Northumberland Ltd (“Company”) and its subsidiary companies Advance Northumberland (Commercial) Ltd, Advance Northumberland (Developments) Ltd, Advance Northumberland (Housing) Ltd, and Advance Northumberland (Finance) Ltd (together the “Advance Subsidiaries”) to:

I.        Adopt new Articles of Association of the Company and the Advance Subsidiaries

II.       Approve a Financial Delegation Policy of the Company and the Advance Subsidiaries, and

III.      Approve the Role Profile for the “Controlling Shareholder Representative”

Summary of New Capital Proposals considered by Officer Capital Strategy Group

The report summarises proposed amendments to the Capital Programme considered by the officer Capital Strategy Group via email on 6 June 2022 (Appendix C)

To consider such other business as, in the opinion of the Chair, should, by reason of special circumstances, be considered as a matter of urgency

It is expected that matters included in this part of the Agenda will be dealt with in private.  Reports referred to are enclosed for members and officers only, coloured pink and marked "Not for Publication".

The Committee is invited to consider passing the following resolution:

(a)    That under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item on the Agenda as it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A of the 1972 Act, and

(b)    That the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosure for the following reasons:-

Agenda Items          Paragraph of Part I of Schedule 12A

9-11                          3 - Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any?particular person (including the authority holding that information) ?

AND                         The public interest in maintaining this exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosure?because the information can be considered to be commercially sensitive (item 9), disclosure could adversely affect the business reputation or confidence in the person / organisation and could adversely affect commercial revenue (item 10), and  because disclosure could adversely affect the business reputation or confidence in the person / organisation, and could adversely affect commercial revenue (item 11).

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Summary of New Capital Proposals considered by Officer Capital Strategy Group

The report summarises proposed amendments to the Capital Programme considered by the officer Capital Strategy Group (CSG) via email on 6 June 2022 (Appendix D)

Integrated Sexual Health Service for Northumberland – Permission to Tender

The purpose of this report is to provide the background to the need to provide a comprehensive open-access sexual health service as part of the council’s statutory public health functions; and to seek permission to proceed with a formal tender exercise (Appendix E).

Leisure Service Programme

The purpose of this report is to seek approval to further extend the existing Active Northumberland Agreement for a period of twelve months following consideration of specialist Leisure Services procurement advice (Appendix F)