THAT    

(a)     Cabinet agrees the attached response to the "Strategy for Success" and "Choosing Health" (Appendix 1);

(b)    Cabinet agrees to invest 50% of the salary costs involved with the post of the Director of Public Health to indicate the Council's commitment to the Government White Paper “Choosing Health”.  In so doing the Council seeks to be equal partners with the PCT in the work programme to be undertaken by the Director in this respect;

(c)     Cabinet welcomes the PCT commitment to strengthen the current section 31 arrangements and to work with the Council in agreeing LPSA2; and

(d)    Cabinet requests Section 31 reports back on how the Council will deliver the six priorities set out in the White Paper.