Use of Scrutiny Call-In Mechanism
Dear East Staffordshire Borough Council,
This request relates to uses of the call-in mechanism that forms part of the overview and scrutiny committee system.
If your authority has an overview and scrutiny system please answer the following:
For the past ten years, please confirm how many decisions taken by the council’s cabinet/executive were available for call-in.
Please provide a table showing a breakdown of the following for each year since 2013.
For each year please state how many call-ins there were.
For each call-in please show which committee called them in, what the response was, the topic and provide a link to the relevant committee where the call was discussed.
If the S.12 time limit would be exceeded by responding to this request, please answer for a fewer number of years, starting with the most recent.
Yours faithfully,
Megan Waugh
Research for Action
I am currently out of the office and will return on Thursday 14th December 2023
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Good morning,
Thank you for your recent request. Please see below the information
requested, please note we have only answered for the previous 5 years.
┌────┬────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┐
│Year│Decisions available for call│ Decisions called in │
│ │ in │ │
├────┼────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│2024│ 1 │ 0 │
├────┼────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│2023│ 10 │ 1 │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │All of the information can be found at│
│ │ │the following link: [1]Scrutiny Value │
│ │ │ for Money Council Committee 17th │
│ │ │ January 2024 | East Staffordshire │
│ │ │Borough Council (eaststaffsbc.gov.uk) │
├────┼────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│2022│ 8 │ 1 │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │All of the information can be found at│
│ │ │ the following link: │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ [2]Scrutiny Value for Money Council │
│ │ │ Services Committee 24th Nov 2022 | │
│ │ │ East Staffordshire Borough Council │
│ │ │ (eaststaffsbc.gov.uk) │
├────┼────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│2021│ 7 │ 0 │
├────┼────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│2020│ 7 │ 1 │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ All of the information can be found │
│ │ │ at the following link: [3]Scrutiny │
│ │ │ Community Regeneration, Environment │
│ │ │and Health and Well Being Committee - │
│ │ │ 20th July 2020 | East Staffordshire │
│ │ │Borough Council (eaststaffsbc.gov.uk) │
└────┴────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘
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Council P O Box 8045 Burton upon Trent Staffordshire
DE14 9JG
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Kind regards,
Daniel Caulkett
Democratic Services Officer
East Staffordshire Borough Council
PO Box 8045
Burton upon Trent
Staffordshire
DE14 9UG
01283 508608
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