Agenda item

Report of the Director of Communications.

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Communications reviewing the City Corporation’s membership of think tanks for 2017-18.

RESOLVED – That approval be given to the following:-

1.       the updated approach to working with think tanks i.e. based on proactively searching out opportunities aligned to the City Corporation's priorities;

2.       the City of London Corporation becoming a corporate member of the nine think tanks listed below at a total cost of £78,800, to be met from 2017/18 Policy Initiatives Fund categorised under the Events section of the Fund and charged to City’s Cash:-

·        Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation

·        Chatham House

·        European Policy Forum

·        Institute for Public Policy Research

·        Local Government Information Unit

·        The New Local Government Network

·        Reform

·        Whitehall and Industry Group

·        Legatum Institute (this will be a new membership)

3.    corporate membership of the Foreign Policy Centre be discontinued; and

4.    it be noted that a think tank grid which summarised the think tanks the City Corporation was currently a member of, those with whom it worked with on an ad hoc basis and those it could work with in the future  was available on request.