Issue - meetings

To receive verbal updates about the work of the Policy and Scrutiny Committees, including the extraordinary meetings of the Finance, Smart City and City Management Policy and Scrutiny Committee on 30 September 2021 and the Business and Children’s Policy and Scrutiny Committee on 27 September 2021.

4.1       The Committee heard verbal updates from the Policy and Scrutiny Chairs on their respective Policy and Scrutiny Committees.

4.2       The Chair for the Business and Children’s Policy and Scrutiny Committee updated the Commission on the following topics:

•           the Extraordinary Meeting of the Business and Children’s Policy and Scrutiny Committee on 27th October 2021 on the Marble Arch Mound and the recommendations put forward by the Committee.

•           the Business and Children’s Policy and Scrutiny Committee on 7th October on the School Inclusion health and safety in schools policy. It was noted that this had been referred to this Committee by the Audit and Performance Committee and the School Inclusion Pilot.

•           The next Business and Children’s Policy and Scrutiny Committee that will be taking place on 29th November and will receive an update on the Oxford Street Regeneration Project and interim themes from a Scrutiny Task Group looking into the mental health needs of children and young people across Westminster.

4.3       The Chair of the Communities, Regeneration and Housing Policy and Scrutiny Committee updated the Commission on the following topics:

•           Previous agenda items for the Communities, Regeneration and Housing Policy and Scrutiny Committees that have included; nuisance vehicles and local partners programme of work to tackle the issue, air quality in Westminster and the Council’s air quality action plan, the capital works programme in relation to housing and a call-in on Church Street Sites A, B and C.

4.4       The Chair of the Adults and Public Health Policy and Scrutiny Committee updated the Commission on the following topics:

•           The temporary closure of the inpatient units in the Gordon Hospital. The Committee has been focusing on working with CNWL to ensure these inpatient units re-open.

4.5       The Chair of the Finance, Smart City and City Management Policy and Scrutiny Committee updated the Commission on the following topics:

•           The Extraordinary meeting of the Finance, Smart City and City Management Policy and Scrutiny Committee held on 30th September 2021 on the recent flash floods that took place in Westminster.

•           The Committee has also scrutinised the Council’s procurement strategy, this involved receiving deep dive case studies on the Council’s major procurement contracts.