Agenda and decisions

Members are asked to declare any interest and the nature of that interest which they may have in any of the items under consideration at this meeting.

To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 9 December 2025.

To receive communications from the Chair.

The Chair to report on any requests to address the meeting.

The Chair to advise whether they have agreed to any item of urgent business being admitted to the agenda.

Report of Assistant Director of Finance (S151 Officer)

Purpose of report

To submit the draft Capital and Investment Strategy for 2026-27 for recommendation by the committee to the Executive.

Recommendations

The Budget Planning Committee resolves:

1.1         To recommend the draft Capital and Investment Strategy for 2026-27 (Appendix 1) to Executive.

Resolved

(1)        That the Committee recommends the draft Capital and Investment Strategy for 2026/27 to the Executive.

Report of Assistant Director of Finance (Section 151 Officer)

Purpose of report

To update Budget Planning Committee on the Review of Reserves that has taken place in preparation of the budget for 2026/27 and the Medium-Term Financial Strategy 2025/26 – 2030/31.

Recommendations

The Budget Planning Committee resolves:

1.1      To note the outcome of the review of reserves and the forecast over the Medium-Term Financial Strategy period.

1.2    To provide the Executive with feedback on whether the Committee supports the draft reserve allocations.

Resolved

(1)        That the outcome of the review of reserves and the forecast over the Medium-Term Financial Strategy period be noted.

(2)        That Executive be advised that the Committee supports the draft reserve allocations.

Report of Assistant Director of Finance (Section 151 Officer).

Purpose of report

To report to the committee the council’s financial position at the end of the financial year 2025-2026.

Recommendations

1.         To note the contents of the report

Resolved

(1)        That the report be noted.

The following report(s) contain exempt information as defined in the following paragraph(s) of Part 1, Schedule 12A of Local Government Act 1972.

3– Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

Members are reminded that whilst the following item(s) have been marked as exempt, it is for the meeting to decide whether or not to consider each of them in private or in public. In making the decision, members should balance the interests of individuals or the Council itself in having access to the information. In considering their discretion members should also be mindful of the advice of Council Officers.

Should Members decide not to make a decision in public, they are recommended to resolve as follows:

“That under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that, if the public and press were present, it would be likely that exempt information falling under the provisions of Schedule 12A, Part 1, Paragraph 3 would be disclosed to them, and that in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.”

The Budget Planning Committee to resolve to readmit the public and press to the meeting.

To review the Committee Work Plan.

Resolved

(1)        That the work programme be noted.