Issue - meetings

Report CSD17138

The Committee considered a report outlining the total expenditure of the Local Authority on consultants across all Local Authority departments for 2016/17 and 2017/18 to date.

At its meeting on 7^th September 2017, the Executive and Resources PDS Committee considered a report on Local Authority expenditure on consultants across all Council departments for both revenue and capital budgets and requested that this expenditure be considered by the PDS Committees for each Portfolio.  Within the Public Protection and Safety Portfolio, revenue expenditure which was focused on the need for one-off specialist advice and to respond to insufficient in-house skills or resources had totalled £17,779 in 2016/17 and £2,710 in 2017/18 to date.  There had been no capital expenditure on consultants in 2016/17 and 2017/18 to date.

RESOLVED that the expenditure on consultants relating to the Public Protection and Safety Portfolio be noted.