Agenda item

Report of the Chamberlain.

The Sub Committee considered a report of the Town Clerk providing Members with information the current recipients of benefits and grant in kind.

A Member queried how the various items listed on the report were agreed and expressed concern about the level and purpose of some benefits, in particular, one being provided to the Worshipful Company of Carmen. The Town Clerk clarified that the purpose of the report was to outline the totality of benefits and grants in kind agreed by the various Corporation Committees, and that the Grants Sub-Committee was not responsible for scrutinising the purpose or level of these.

RESOLVED: That:-

i)                 the updated report and note the recipients of benefits and grants in kind relating to 2012/13 be received;

ii)                the policy that no benefits and grants in kind to charities or other external organisations should be made by committees or officers without the agreement of your Committee subject to a de minimis of £2,500 be reaffirmed;

iii)              one new benefit in kind relating to the provision of a free season ticket to Broadway Homelessness and Support to park a car at Whites Row Car Park, which is valued at the parking season ticket price of £4,264 be approved; and

iv)              the definition of benefits and grants in kind be confirmed.