Issue - meetings

            That the report be noted.

The Corporate Finance Manager introduced the report to provide Members with requested supplementary financial information to accompany the Statement of Accounts 2013/14. 

                        He detailed the background to the report and explained that the information had been provided following a Notice of Motion approved by Council on 29 January 2013.  The document was split into the following three categories:-

• Table 1 – Council Employees
• Table 2 – Posts covered by interim or temporary arrangements
• Table 3 – Consultants and Non-Permanent Posts

Councillor Clive Carver sought clarification on costs for external legal advice and for HR issues such as the recent work on the Senior Management restructure and Single Status.  The Chief Officer (Governance) explained that Councillors could contact him following the meeting if they required specific information on the costs for legal advice.  The Chief Executive advised that some named individuals had been employed through a recruitment agency for Single Status, hence the footnote to the figures, and that a consultancy practice had been appointed to support the Authority on the new operating model, not an individual, which was why the appointment was not listed.

            RESOLVED:

            That the report be noted.