Agenda item

Report of the Director of Communications.

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Communications proposing sponsorship of the 2019 Battle of Ideas event.

Members noted that this event had been funded from the Policy Initiatives Fund (PIF) for several years and questioned the appropriateness of continued funding from that source, given recent changes to how the PIF was administered. It was therefore agreed that funding should be provided from the Committee’s Contingency instead on this occasion, with the funding source to be reviewed for any future years.

RESOLVED: That Members agree to provide £20,000 from the Committee’s 2019/20 Contingency Fund to sponsor the 2019 Battle of Ideas festival.