Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Corporate Services

Councillor C. Hay, as Cabinet Member Corporate Services, explained that a requirement of the Localism Act 2011 was for councils to produce a pay policy statement in respect of employees for 2012-13 and subsequent financial years.  Members were assured that the 2012-13 pay policy statement merely set out the approach that had been taken over the last number of years.  He felt that over the coming year consideration should be given to ‘discretions’ as they had never been used, which posed the question, why do we have them. 

Along with the Director People, Organisation Development and Change, the Cabinet Member Corporate Services gave the following responses to Member questions;

• In relation to item 1.11 of the report and Council being offered the opportunity to vote before large salary packages are offered in respect of new appointments, the Appointments and Remuneration Committee would undertake this through delegation. 
• The last sentence of item 1.5 of the report was missing the word transparency after the words ‘staff need more’ (transparency).

Upon a vote it was unanimously

RESOLVED that

(i)                 The 2012-13 Pay Policy Statement be approved.

(ii)               The revised LGPS Statement of Policy/Discretions (paragraph 2.23) be approved.