Agenda item

Report of the Chamberlain

The Sub-Committee considered a Report of the Chamberlain concerning internal legal services charging.

The Chairman expressed his frustrations about the delays with this project and asked officers to come back to the Sub-Committee with the prospective rollout programme for other departments.

He stressed that the shift from centralised “command and control”, to departments being given the devolved choice on how they pay for services would not be easy, indeed, at times it would be painful.

RESOLVED – that Members:

·         Note the progress made in moving to an internal trading account model for C&CS legal services.

·         Agree to progress under option 2 of this report, which recommends implementing the internal trading account for legal services from 2019/20.