Theme

Item

Lead Officer / Exec Member

Notes

9 June 2025

 

Outer Ring Road and Station Gateway

Garry Taylor

Cllr Lomas

Pre-decision Scrutiny

 

2026/27 outline budget process

Debbie Mitchell

 

7 July 2025

 

Harewood Whin Green Energy Park Business Case

Shaun Gibbons

Cllr Kent

Pre-decision scrutiny

 

Budget Task and Finish Proposal

Debbie Mitchell

Cllr Lomas

 


8 September 2025

 

10-year anti-poverty strategy

Pauline Stuchfield, Sam Blyth

 

Pre-decision scrutiny

 

Next steps in securing investment for York

Sam Blyth, Claire Foale, Garry Taylor

Cllr Douglas

 

 

2024/25 F&P Outturn

Debbie Mitchell, Ian Cunningham, Cllr Lomas

 

Planned to come in July but deferred as the date of Executive was changed

 

Scrutiny Shared Vision

James Parker / Guy Close

Cllr Douglas

 

01 October 2025 (additional meeting)

 

Castle Gateway

 

Garry Taylor

Cllr Lomas

Pre-decision scrutiny

 

Report of the Task & Finish Group on the Boundary Commission review

Bryn Roberts

Cllr Douglas

To agree a recommendation to go to Executive

 

Draft Comms Strategy

Claire Foale / Michael James

Cllr Douglas

Pre-decision scrutiny

10 November 2025

 

Complaints/Compliments annual report

Lorraine Lunt / Cllrs Lomas / Douglas

Annual update

 

Petitions Schedule

Bryn Roberts

Six-monthly update

 

Council Motions

Bryn Roberts

Six-monthly update

 

Audit recommendations – Emission reporting process and Climate Action Plan

Shaun Gibbons / Cllr Kent

 

19 January 2026

 

Budget and MTFS Scrutiny, final report

James Parker

Cllr Baxter                                                                Debbie Mitchell

Cllr Lomas

 

2 March 2026

 

Evaluation of the business decarbonisation support programme

Shaun Gibbons / Cllr Kent

 

 

Scrutiny Recommendation Tracking

 

James Parker

 

11 May 2026

 

Petitions Schedule

Bryn Roberts

Six-monthly update

 

Council Motions

Sam Blyth

Six-monthly update

 

Potential topics for all-member briefing sessions or public meetings

 

Item

 

Origin

Lead Officer and Exec Member

Notes

Major projects – York Central update

 

Garry Taylor / Cllr Lomas

Public meeting – July 2026 tbc

City LEAP

 

Shaun Gibbons /

Cllr Kent

Had been scheduled May 2026

Community Woodland update from Forestry England

Cllr Kent

Shaun Gibbons

Cllr Kent

Briefing, 16/04/26

Digital Switchover

 

Roy Grant

Briefing, 26/02/26

Customer Services developments:

·        Digital information provision

·        AI

·        User journey (website)

 

Pauline Stuchfield, Eilidh Carricker

 

F&P Quarterly Reports

Regular Report

Debbie Mitchell, Ian Cunningham

Cllr Lomas

Information to be shared with members via e-mail

Local Nature Recovery Strategy

Moved from November’s meeting

Shaun Gibbons / Guy Hanson / Alison Cooke

Cllr Kent

Briefing.

Consultation over the summer, due for approval 04/11/25

Community Infrastructure Levy

 

Alison Cooke

Better understand the approach to implementation of the CIL in parished and unparished areas, and in particular, what advantages parished areas might have. 

S106

Govt announcement

Alison Cooke

Government plans

 

Scrutiny Member Briefing Sessions

 

·        Thursday 21 October 2025 (Library Needs Assessment)

·        Thursday 4 December 2025 (Healthy Weight/Capital Project Management)

·        Thursday 26 February 2026 (Digital Switchover)

·        Thursday 16 April 2026 (School Attendance and Attainment Gap/Community Woodland Update)

 

Agreed Task and Finish Groups (TFGs)

Topic and timescale

Aims and objectives

Membership

Boundary Commission Review on Council Size

 

Report and recommendations agreed by Corporate Scrutiny Committee on 1 October 2025 and agreed by Council on 16 October 2025.

·     Gather views and seek cross-party agreement for a recommendation on council size.

Cllr Coles

Cllr Hollyer

Cllr Merrett

Cllr Steward

Cllr Wann

Budget and Medium-Term Financial Strategy Scrutiny

 

Report and recommendations agreed by Corporate Scrutiny Committee on 19 January 2026 and endorsed by Executive on 3 March 2026.

 

TFG re-established for 2026/27 budget process.

·     Review the council’s MTFS

·     Review the process through which the council will engage with residents, businesses and other stakeholders as it develops and engages on its 2026/27 budget proposals

·     Review the process through which the MTFS informs the approach to budget-setting

·     Consider whether and how the budget proposals align with the Council Plan and the ten-year strategies

·     Review responses to the public consultation on budget proposals and consider any recommendations to Executive

·     Consider any improvements to the budget-setting process which could be adopted for future years

Cllr Ayre

Cllr Hook

Cllr Baxter

Cllr Moroney

Joint Task and Finish Group with People Scrutiny Committee to look at financial challenges within Adult Social Care

·     Remit and timescale TBC pending initial scoping meeting.

·     CSC is parent committee.

Cllr Ayre

Cllr Burton

Cllr Moroney

Cllr Nicholls

Cllr Runciman

 

Possible Task and Finish Groups

Topic

Aims and objectives

Membership

TBC

TBC

TBC