Agenda item

To receive the report of the Clerk.

The Committee noted the report of the Clerk.

On action 3, Members asked whether an update was available on an Officer working group and whether clarification on cultural strategy leadership and timetable might be available, noting the Committee’s Terms of Reference that referenced cultural strategy leadership and the Culture, Heritage & Libraries (CHL) Committee’s primacy in determining that strategy.

The meeting heard that plans for a working group were under way, that a draft outline paper for it had been shared informally with the Chair and Deputy Chair of the Policy & Resources (P&R) Committee, and that the paper was expected to be forwarded to the executive leadership ahead of presentation to the CHL Committee in the autumn time.  In response to Member queries about why CHL Committee was not sighted on that documentation ahead of the autumn time, the meeting heard that the draft was being discussed upstream of its submission to the CHL Committee in order to ensure that the contents and recommendations were appropriate. The meeting heard that a recommendation of the draft paper was that the strategies themselves were to be submitted to the CHL Committee in the first instance, to be subsequently shared with the P&R Committee for information. 

Members asked that the Chair and Deputy Chair of CHL be involved in such discussions in future.