Use of Scrutiny Call-In Mechanism
Dear Vale of White Horse District 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
Dear Megan Waugh
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request, which was received by Vale of White Horse District Council on 12 December 2023.
Please accept this email as confirmation that your request has been received and is being considered by the relevant department and that a response will be sent to you within 20 working days, subject to the information not being exempt and subject to any need for clarification.
The deadline for this will be 15 January 2024
The reference number for this request is Vale 23/832
I trust that this email is sufficient to assure you that your request is being dealt with. However, should you have any queries in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact the FOI team at [Vale of White Horse District Council request email]
Kind regards
Information Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
Vale of White Horse District Council
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Vale of White Horse District Council
Dear Megan,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request to South Oxfordshire
District Council (Ref. 23/984) and Vale of White Horse District Council
(Ref. 23/832). Please note that the two councils operate as a shared
service, hence this joint response.
Under Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 2000 Act) you
are entitled to be informed in writing whether the council holds the
information specified in your request and, if that is the case, to have
that information communicated to you unless any of the statutory
exemptions apply. I have considered your request and can confirm we do
hold some of the information asked and I do not believe any of the
statutory exemptions apply to your request. Please find below the
information you requested (where available).
Your request asked for each council for the past ten years, how many
decisions taken by the council’s Cabinet were available for call-in. All
key decisions considered by Cabinet in the past ten years have been
available for call-in. These decisions can be found in the minutes of the
Cabinet meetings here:
• South Oxfordshire:
[1]https://democratic.southoxon.gov.uk/ieLi...
• Vale of White Horse:
[2]https://democratic.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/i...
You asked for a breakdown of call-ins for each year, which committee
called them in, what the response was, the topic and provide a link to the
relevant committee where the call was discussed.
There have only been two call-ins at each council in the past ten years.
The detail of these can be found here:
• South Oxfordshire call-in 17 February 2015:
[3]https://democratic.southoxon.gov.uk/ieLi...
• South Oxfordshire call-in 1 March 2021:
[4]https://democratic.southoxon.gov.uk/ieLi...
• Vale of White Horse call-in 20 December 2021:
[5]https://democratic.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/i...
• Vale of White Horse call-in 12 July 2023:
[6]https://democratic.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/i...
Please treat this as the councils’ formal response under the 2000 Act. If
you are not satisfied with the decision I have made in response to your
request, you can make a request for an internal review by emailing
[7][email address] and [8][Vale of White Horse District Council request email] within 40 working
days from the date we issued our response. If you remain dissatisfied
after following that procedure, you have the right under Section 50 of the
2000 Act to complain to the Information Commissioner if you feel the
council has not dealt with your request properly. You can contact the
Commissioner at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
(telephone number: 0303 123 1113). You can also find further information
at [9]www.ico.org.uk.
Regards,
Steve Culliford
Democratic Services Team Leader
Legal and Democratic
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils
[10][email address]
References
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1. https://democratic.southoxon.gov.uk/ieLi...
2. https://democratic.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/i...
3. https://democratic.southoxon.gov.uk/ieLi...
4. https://democratic.southoxon.gov.uk/ieLi...
5. https://democratic.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/i...
6. https://democratic.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/i...
7. mailto:[email address]
8. mailto:[Vale of White Horse District Council request email]
9. http://www.ico.org.uk/
10. mailto:[email address]
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