Issue - meetings

The Committee considered the report of the Director of Legal and Business Services requesting that the Committee consider the shortlisted subjects and identify a preferred topic for the 2022/23 inquiry

RESOLVED that after consideration of the shortlisted of subjects, as set out in paragraph 8 of the report the Panel concluded that, whilst all of the topics were important, the scrutiny inquiry for 2022-2023 would be an investigation into the River Itchen and requested that the scrutiny manager bring forward terms of reference for the inquiry at the September meeting.  The Committee acknowledged that an inquiry into Gambling harms in the following year could help to inform the Council’s new licensing policy from 2024.