Issue - decisions

RESOLVED that Cabinet:

A     Notes the progress in the delivery of the Council’s Housing Capital Programme (HCP) as at Quarter 1 2021/22 as follows:

             i)        The current budget is £38.922 million, including  £1.25 million carried forward from 2020/21. The projected outturn at Quarter 1 is £34.249 million as set out in Appendix 1 to the report.

B    Noted the progress in the delivery of the Council’s Non Housing Capital Programme (NHCP) as at Quarter 1 2021/22 as follows:

             i)        The current budget is £23.328 million, including  £3.984 million carried forward from 2020/21. The projected outturn at Quarter 1 is £18.302 million as set out in Appendix 2 to the report.

C    Noted that various delays encountered across both the Housing and Non Housing Capital Programmes, many of which are as a direct result of the Pandemic, mean it is anticipated that further re-profiling will be required at Quarter 2 2021/22.

D    Approved the inclusion in the NHCP budget of an additional £17,760 for the purchase of tablets and the use of a Mobile Canvasser Application for Electoral Registration, Canvass and Elections.  Expenditure is to be financed from the annual IER grant and an approved Revenue carry over from 2020/21.