Agenda item

Report of the Chamberlain.

NB: This report is due to be considered by the Efficiency and Performance Sub-Committee and the Finance Committee.

The Sub-Committee considered a report of the Chamberlain concerning the production and publication of the City Corporation’s Efficiency Plan.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted and, in particular, that the framework for the Efficiency Plan would include the following:-

1.       light touch continuous improvement annual saving of 2-3% in budgets from 2018-19, with an incentive element adopted - in which a share of the savings could be re-invested in new priorities in the subsequent year as part of a revised carry-forward process;

2.       the option of removing the 1% pay and prices allowance earlier, from 2017/18 when the majority of Serviced Based Review savings would  have been delivered;

3.       a rolling programme of departmental peer reviews to help identify more radical effectiveness and efficiency improvements; and

4.       further cross cutting reviews, including prevention/demand management, when the current reviews have been implemented.