Issue - meetings

The purpose of this report is to enable the Executive Member to review the results of legal actions (prosecutions, cautions and fixed penalties) undertaken by:-

·                   Public Protection (Environmental Health, Trading Standards and licensing)

·                   Regional Scambuster Team and National Trading Standards eCrime Centre,

·                    Housing Services

This decision will be taken in consultation with the Executive Member for Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods.

Resolved: That the report be approved.

Reason:   So that the Executive Members review formal enforcement activity undertaken by Public Protection, the Regional Scambuster Team and the National Trading Standards eCrime Centre in addition to Housing Services.

The Executive Member for Culture, Leisure and Tourism, received in consultation with the Executive Member for Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods, a report which reviewed the results of legal actions (prosecutions, cautions and fixed penalties) undertaken by; Public Protection (Environmental Health, Trading Standards and licensing), the Regional Scambuster Team and the National Standards eCrime Centre and Housing Service.

The Executive Member for Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods pointed out that there was a typo in Annex B, in that it should read Housing Act 1985 rather than 1885.

In response to a question from the Executive Member for Culture, Leisure and Tourism it was noted that a fixed penalty notice issued under the Health Act 2006 for smoking in a vehicle/premise would have been carried out on the basis of a complaint.

Resolved: That the report be approved.

Reason:    So that the Executive Members review formal enforcement activity undertaken by Public Protection, the Regional Scambuster Team and the National Trading Standards eCrime Centre in addition to Housing Services.