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

 

Pre-decision scrutiny

 

Next steps in securing investment for York

Sam Blyth, Claire Foale

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

 

A shared vision for Scrutiny in York

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 / Cllr Lomas

Annual update

 

Petitions Schedule

Bryn Roberts

Six-monthly update

 

Council Motions

Bryn Roberts, Sam Blyth

Six-monthly update

 

Local Nature Recovery Strategy

Shaun Gibbons / Guy Hanson / Alison Cooke

Cllr Kent

Consultation over the summer, due for approval late 2025

 

City LEAP / Local Net Zero Accelerator Programme

Shaun Gibbons /

Cllr Kent

Need to identify most appropriate time for this item

19 January 2026

 

Budget and MTFS Scrutiny, final report

Debbie Mitchell

Cllr Lomas                                                                

 

 

 

 

 

2 March 2026

 

Evaluation of the business decarbonisation support programme

Shaun Gibbons / Cllr Kent

 

11 May 2026

 

Petitions Schedule

Bryn Roberts

Six-monthly update

 

Council Motions

Bryn Roberts

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

Community Woodland update from Forestry England

Cllr Kent

Shaun Gibbons

Cllr Kent

Briefing

Digital Switchover

 

Roy Grant

Briefing

Customer Services developments

 

Pauline Stuchfield, Eilidh Carricker

 

Emissions Reporting

 

Shaun Gibbons

Cllr Kent

 

Climate Change Action Plan

 

Shaun Gibbons

Cllr Kent

 

Project Management

Corporate scrutiny 07/07

Claire Foale

Briefing

F&P Q1

Regular Report

Debbie Mitchell, Ian Cunningham

Cllr Lomas

Information to be shared with members via e-mail

F&P Q2

Regular Report

Debbie Mitchell, Ian Cunningham

Cllr Lomas

Information to be shared with members via e-mail

F&P Q3

Regular Report

Debbie Mitchell, Ian Cunningham

Cllr Lomas

Information to be shared with members via e-mail

 

 

 

Briefing session dates

 

·        Thursday 2 October

·        Thursday 4 December

·        Thursday 26 February

·        Thursday 16 April

 

Agreed Task & Finish Groups

 

Topic and timescale

Aims and objectives

Membership

Preparing for proposed changes to long-term sickness and disability benefits.

 

No timescale set for final report to People Scrutiny Committee

 

 

 

·        Acquire a detailed understanding of the scope of the proposed changes and the likely direct and indirect impacts

·        Establish the number of York residents likely to be affected by the changes if they are implemented as currently proposed

·        Identify what additional financial or other support affected residents may seek to access from the council and partners

·        Identify how affected residents can best be supported to access help, such as applying for other benefits for which they may be eligible

·        Establish whether capacity exists to meet a potential increase in demand for services or support

·        Make recommendations as to how the council and partners can most effectively allocate resources to support affected residents

Cllr Fenton

Cllr Runciman

Cllr Steward

Cllr Coles

Cllr J Burton

 

 

Boundary Commission Electoral Review – Council Size.

 

Final report to be considered at Corporate Scrutiny Committee meeting on 01 October 2025

 

·        To gather residents’ views and seek cross-party agreement for a proposal on council size.

Cllr Merrett

Cllr Coles

Cllr Hollyer

Cllr Wann

Cllr Steward

 

Budget and Medium Term Financial Strategy Scrutiny

 

Final report to be considered at Corporate Scrutiny Committee meeting on 19 January 2026

 

·        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

 

Possible Task & Finish Groups

 

Topic

Aims and objectives

Membership

Procurement

 

 

Community Infrastructure Levy

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

 

Council communications with residents