Purpose: The scrutiny committee meeting of 2 February 2023 will carry out pre-scrutiny of the council’s proposed budgets for 2023/24.
The purpose of the meeting is to comment on the proposed budget papers for 2023/24; and make recommendations to cabinet regarding the proposed budgets’ ability to deliver the council’s overarching policy framework (as proposed in the corporate plan 2022-2026).
Council will be meeting to set the budgets for the financial year 2023/24 on 21 February 2023.
The principles of budget scrutiny are provided in this report. Committee members are reminded of the link between the proposed corporate plan 2022-2026 and the need to set a budget capable of delivering this.