Report of the Deputy Chief Executive (Place)

The Chairman agreed that this item be considered at this meeting as an urgent additional item to enable the comments of the Scrutiny Committee to be included in the Council’s response to the Green Paper prior to its submission before the required deadline.

The Committee considered a report of the Deputy Chief Executive (Place) that set out the Council’s proposed response to the recently published ‘Building our Industrial Strategy Green Paper January 2017’.  A copy of the Green Paper was attached to the report at Appendix 1.  The report also sought Members’ input, comment and endorsement of the proposed consultation response (attached at Appendix 2 to the report) prior to its submission to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy by the deadline of 17^th April 2017.

Resolved:-

1. That the ‘Building Our Industrial Strategy Green Paper January 2017’, attached to the report at Appendix 1, is noted.

2.  That, subject to the inclusion of any comments by Members before Thursday 13^th April 2017, the proposed consultation response (attached at Appendix 2 to the report) be submitted to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Note:- This is an Executive function.

Executive Councillor:- Holland