Use of Scrutiny Call-In Mechanism

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Dear Newport City 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

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Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for your request for information about :

Use of Scrutiny Call-In Mechanism

Received on 13/12/2023

This request has been formally logged in our FOI management system and has been assigned the reference REQ12059.
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