To agree the projects and measures within the 2016/17 corporate delivery plan.

The cabinet member economy & corporate services presented a report on the corporate delivery plan 2016/17.  He reported that the corporate plan had been approved by cabinet on the 5 February, and said that this document represented the action plan to deliver the plan in 2016/17.  The following points were made in reply to members in attendance:

·         That the baseline figures were in a data book that supported the headline figures outlined in the quarterly report scorecard to cabinet.

·         That the end of year progress report would be presented to cabinet on the 16 June.

·         The cabinet member (health and wellbeing) said that the statistics in objective 3 of priority 2 were provided by the Department of Health and were designed to highlight the potential areas of need in the county and where resources should be spent.  The figures were not meant to be compared with similar statistics provided by the Department for neighbouring counties.  It was noted that mental health was the main priority for the health and wellbeing strategy for the county.

The Chief Executive replied to a further question concerning objective 7 of priority 4 of the document, and said that recruitment and retention was regularly discussed within the council, and a personal performance development plan was being introduced for all staff which would look beyond objectives for each employee and toward the kind of organisation that staff would like the council to become.

Resolved: that the 2016/17 corporate delivery plan be approved.