Items
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To Receive Apologies for Absence
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2. |
Substitutes
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3. |
Public Questions & Statements
To receive questions / statements from the
public, if any.
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4. |
Minutes  PDF 376 KB
To approve the revised minutes from 28 January
2026
To approve as a correct record the minutes of
the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee held on
11th February 2026.
Additional documents:
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Items of Urgent Business
To determine any
other items of business which the Chairman decides should be
considered as a matter of urgency pursuant to Section 100B(4)(b) of
the Local Government Act 1972.
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6. |
Declarations of Interest PDF 721 KB
Members are asked
at this stage to declare any interests that they may have in any of
the following items on the agenda. The Code of Conduct for Members
requires that declarations include the nature of the interest and
whether it is a disclosable pecuniary
interest.
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7. |
Petitions From Members of the Public
To consider any petitions received from
members of the public.
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8. |
Consideration of Any Matter Referred to the Committee by a Member
To consider any
requests made by non-executive Members of the Council, submitted to
the Democratic Services Manager with seven clear working
days’ notice, to include an item on the agenda of the
Overview and Scrutiny Committee.
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9. |
Responses of the Council or the Cabinet to the Committee's Reports or Recommendations
To consider any responses of the Council or
the Cabinet to the Committee’s reports or
recommendations:
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10. |
Budget Monitoring P10 2025-2026 PDF 318 KB
To review the Budget Monitoring
report and make any recommendations to Full Council.
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BUDGET MONITORING Period 10 2025/26
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Executive
Summary
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This report provides an update on the
Council’s financial performance and projected full year
outturn position for 2025/26 for the revenue account, capital
programme, reserve statement and budgeted savings performance as at
the end of January 2026.
As at 31
January
2026, the General Fund Forecast Outturn position for 2025/26
is a surplus of £0.383m. This is after adjusting for all
known variations and full year forecasting by service managers.
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Options
considered
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This is an update report on the
Council’s financial position and so no other options were
considered.
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Consultation(s)
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This is an update report on the
Council’s financial position and
no other consultations were considered.
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Recommendations
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Members are asked to
consider the report and recommend the following to full
Council:
a)
Note the contents of the report and the current
forecast year end position.
b)
Seek approval of Full Council to increase the 2025/26 capital
budget for Disabled Facilities Grants to £2,317,266. This is
to reflect the addition of £118,204 of grant award towards
the scheme
c)
To use the Extended Responsibility Producer grant of
£1,312,840, which was previously forecasted to be an in-year
contribution to reserves, to offset relevant in year recycling
expenditure.
d)
That the resulting underspend of £1,312,840 in
the respective recycling revenue budgets be transferred to the
General Reserve to mitigate future unfunded new
burdens.
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Reasons for
recommendations
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To update members on the current budget
monitoring position for the Council.
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Background
papers
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Budget report, Budget Monitoring reports
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Additional documents:
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Reporting progress implementing Corporate Plan 2023-27 Action Plan- to end of Q3 PDF 245 KB
To review the Council’s performance and
make any recommendations to Cabinet.
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Reporting progress implementing Corporate Plan
2023-27
Delivery against Action Plan 2024/25 and 2025/26
– to end of Quarter 3 – 1 October 2025 to 31 December 2025
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Executive
Summary
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This report provides an update on the progress
made to deliver the Corporate Plan 2023-27 Action Plan for
2025-26
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Options
considered
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This is a report on the progress being made to
deliver against the Council’s Corporate Plan.
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Consultation(s)
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The named officer for each action in the
annual action plans has been asked for their assessment of
progress, to identify any issues
impacting on anticipated delivery and to propose actions they will
take to address any slippage or uncertainty around delivery in the
coming months.
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Recommendations
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Overview and Scrutiny is invited to note the
contents of the report and provide comments on any items they feel
appropriate.
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Reasons for
recommendations
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That Cabinet are aware of the
progress made to deliver the priorities for the year 2025-26 and
are asked to provide comment on progress so that officers have a
steer on any items that are not on track for delivery.
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Background
papers
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Corporate Plan 2023-27
Annual Action Plan 2025-26
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Additional documents:
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Annual Action Plan 2026/2027 PDF 170 KB
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CORPORATE PLAN 2023-2027 - ANNUAL ACTION PLAN
2026/27
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Executive
Summary
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This report and
accompanying appendix present the 2023 – 2027 Corporate Plan
Annual Action Plan for the period April 2026 – March 2027 to
the Overview and Scrutiny Committee for comment.
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Options
considered
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The actions detailed
in the Annual Action Plan have been developed in support of the
five themes in the adopted Corporate Plan recognising the
increasing pressure on the Council’s budget, the moves
towards establishing a Combined Authority for Norfolk and Suffolk
and Local Government Reorganisation which will change the context
in which the District Council operates and works over the next two
years, alongside continuing with Business As Usual maintaining
service delivery for the district’s residents until any
proposals for new unitary councils in Norfolk are agreed and put in
place.
The actions proposed
seek to balance the capacity of the organisation to deliver, taking
into account the staff and financial resources available to the
Council, the increased resource and focus required in supporting
the transition of services into any new unitary council(s) and the
potential to access external funding or partnership resources, with
the aspirations laid out in the Corporate Plan.
In this respect it
is recognised that as the process of local government
reorganisation moves forward beyond the Government announcing its
preferred option for new councils in Norfolk in the next two or
three months there will be increasingly less scope for the Council
to deliver against the actions proposed in the 2023 – 2027
Corporate Plan as focus and resource needs to shift to establishing
the new unitary authority/ies.
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Consultation(s)
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The development of
the 2026/27 Annual Action Plan has therefore been later than in
previous years. This has been due to
the LGR process and the lateness of the Government publishing the
2026/27 local government financial settlement impacting on the
setting of the Council’s 2026/27 budget.
The 2026/27 Annual
Action Plan has involved internal processes of consultation and
engagement with regards to the Medium-Term Financial Strategy and
preparation of the 2026/27 budget, which was approved by Full
Council at its meeting of the 18th February 2026, after
discussion by Cabinet and Overview and Scrutiny processes.
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Recommendations
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That the Overview
and Scrutiny Committee considers and as appropriate makes comments
on the Corporate Plan Annual Action Plan for 2026/27.
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Reasons for
recommendations
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Sound management of
the authority’s staff, property and financial resources to
deliver projects and initiatives which support improved service
delivery and positive outcomes aligned to the previously agreed
Corporate Plan themes and seeks to position North Norfolk’s
residents, communities and businesses strongly in the context of
proposals to establish a Norfolk and Suffolk Combined Authority and
the process of local government reorganisation in Norfolk which
will see the establishment of new unitary council(s) in Norfolk in
March 2028.
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Background
papers
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2023 – 2027 Corporate Plan
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Additional documents:
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13. |
Mobile Connectivity Review
To Consider the effectiveness of the
Committee’s investigation on Mobile Connectivity matched the
objectives, any improvements that could have been made and if any
recommendations are required.
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14. |
HOSC Report PDF 230 KB
Update from recent HOSC meeting.
Additional documents:
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Work Programmes
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15. |
The Cabinet Work Programme PDF 304 KB
To note the
upcoming Cabinet Work Programme.
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16. |
Overview & Scrutiny Work Programme and Update PDF 300 KB
To receive an
update from the Scrutiny Officer on progress made with topics on
its agreed work programme, training updates and to receive any
further information which Members may have requested at a previous
meeting.
Additional documents:
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Exclusion of the Press and Public
To pass the
following resolution, if necessary:
“That under
Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 the press and
public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of
business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of
exempt information as defined in paragraph _ of Part I of Schedule
12A (as amended) to the Act.”
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