1.         that the Council’s Productivity Plan be:

a.         approved for submission to the Government;

b.         published on the Council’s website; and

2.         that the Chief Executive ensures that the actions identified within the Productivity Plan are implemented as part of the Council’s day to day activity.

To meet the requirements placed on Council’s as part of the Local Government Finance Settlement to prepare a Productivity Plan and submit it by 19 July 2024.

The Plan could have answered all of the specific questions which the Government suggested the Council may wish to consider in preparing the Productivity Plan.  It was felt that, by focussing on the four key areas, the proposed Plan provided a rounded view of activity in place across the Council.

The suggestion was that the Plan should be three or four pages in length but it is not felt that this would provide the opportunity to explain the range of information which was requested by the Government.

This decision will come into force and may be implemented on 24 June 2024 unless the call-in procedure is triggered (as set out in the Standing Orders in relation to Overview and Scrutiny).

The proposals in the submitted report help the Council to deliver our vision of a healthy, happy and prosperous Torbay by demonstrating to the Government and our community the work that we were doing to:

·                     Transform the way that we design and deliver services to make better use of resources;

·                     Take advantage of technology and make better use of data to improve decision making, service design and use of resources; and

·                     Reduce wasteful spend within our organisation and systems.

Through the submission of a Productivity Plan to the Government.

Councillor Jackie Thomas proposed and Councillor Tranter seconded a motion that was unanimously agreed by the Cabinet as set out above.

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