Issue - meetings

Matter for Decision: To consider the LAA performance reports 2009/10 relating to the Economic Prosperity Partnership.

 

Decision of Executive Councillor:

 

The Leader of the Council received comments from the Scrutiny Committee regarding

 

o      2009/10 end of year performance against LAA indicators assigned to the Economic Prosperity Partnership.

 

o      Any issues that should be feed back to Economic Prosperity Partnership.

 

Reason for the Decision:  As set out in the officer’s report. 

 

Any alternative options considered and rejected: N/A

 

Scrutiny Considerations: The committee received a report from the Head of Strategy and Partnerships and the Urban Extension Project Manager regarding the performance of the local area agreement associated with the Economic Prosperity Partnership.

 

The committee made the following comments regarding the report

 

i)                   The value of the Greater Cambridge Partnership analysis was welcomed, but concerns were expressed about potential overlaps with Cambridgeshire Horizons and parallel agendas.

 

ii)                 It was agreed that certain targets such as participation in sport didn’t sit neatly with the partnership. With specific reference to the National Indicator 8, there was agreement that the target was too specific and excluded many sport related activities.

 

iii)               The effectiveness of the partnership was emphasised in relation to particular funding streams such as investing in communities.

 

The leader responded that there was a clear sub-region associated with Cambridge, which was reliant of the development of jobs and housing but that simply placing both functions in a single quango was not the solution and overly simplistic. The leader highlighted the limitations of the existing arrangements.

 

The Scrutiny Committee considered and noted the recommendations.

 

The Leader of the Council agreed the recommendations.