Issue - meetings

To approve the minutes of the previous meeting held on 19^th January 2026 as an accurate record.

Cllr Connor highlighted several corrections and requests for information relating to the draft minutes of the meeting held on 19^th January 2026.

Corrections:

• Item 75 (Treasury Management Strategy Statement 2025/26) – Referring to paragraph g, it was noted that the total EFS (Exceptional Financial Support) figure of £603m by March 2031 was not referred to in the draft minutes.
• Item 75 (Treasury Management Strategy Statement 2025/26) – Referring to paragraph k, there was an acknowledgment that “Members should view the budget report, TMSS, HRA Business Plan and the Capital strategy as a suite of reports that provided the context as a whole” but no action point on how to take this forward.

Requests for information:

• Item 76 (Scrutiny of 2026/27 Draft Budget) – It was noted that the item on ‘Leisure Commercialisation’ included a commitment to provide details of social value but this had not been included in the Cabinet response. Clarification was requested on this point. (ACTION)
• Item 76 (Scrutiny of 2026/27 Draft Budget) – Cllr Connor noted that there was an action point on the ‘Debt Levels’ item to discuss the appropriate procedure for bringing information on the Council’s overall borrowing to the Overview & Scrutiny Committee and the Audit Committee during the Budget setting process in future years. She requested that this action point be followed up. (ACTION)

Cllr Small noted that the Housing, Planning and Development Scrutiny Panel had made a recommendation to Cabinet about the Neighbourhood Moves Scheme but this did not appear in the Overview & Scrutiny Committee draft minutes. (Note from Scrutiny Officer – The item on the Neighbourhood Moves Scheme was included in the list of scrutiny recommendations to the Cabinet and a full response was given in the agenda papers to the Cabinet meeting on 10^th February 2026. See item 15 of the table at: https://www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/documents/s155991/5.%20Appendix%204%20Cabinet%20Responses%20to%20Overview%20Scrutiny%20Committee%20Recommendations.pdf)

With the above corrections taken into account, the minutes of the previous meeting were approved.

RESOLVED – That, following the corrections outlined above, the minutes of the meeting held on 19^th January 2026 be approved as an accurate record.