That:

(a)  the chief financial officer be delegated authority to submit an application for Herefordshire Council, together with Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin councils, to be a 100% business rate pool pilot area for 2018/19; and

(b)  general scrutiny committee be requested, should the application be accepted, to consider the implications for Herefordshire of operating such a pool and to make any such recommendations as it feels appropriate to inform a further decision on participation.