Decision details

Date of Decision:

30 May 2023

Title:

Ward Housing Hub Budget 2023/24 – budget carry forward from 2022/23.

Decision Maker:

(Including Job Title)

James Clark, Assistant Director of Housing

Details of Specific Cabinet Delegation

or Delegation contained in the relevant Sub-Scheme of Delegation.

Cabinet Report: Area Housing Panels Review, Cabinet 23^rd December 2019.

“That the Assistant Director of Housing be authorised, in consultation with the Head of Finance (Adults, Public Health and Housing) to increase the Ward Housing Hub budget (on a ward-by-ward basis) by the value of the Ward Housing Hub underspend in the preceding year within the 4-year cycle”

Decision:

Approval to increase the Ward Housing Hub budget (on a ward-by-ward basis) by the value of the Ward Housing Hub underspend in 2022/23, to be added to the Ward Housing Hub budget for 2023/24.

Reasons for the Decision:

On the 29^th of December 2019, Cabinet agreed the implementation of 25 Ward Housing Hubs with an annual Ward Housing Hub budget allocation per Ward. The annual budgets commenced from 2020/21 financial year, to be managed within a four-year cycle, with any uncommitted budget rolling forward to the following financial year, with all budgets to be spent by the end of 2023/24.

Cabinet authorised that the Assistant Director of Housing in consultation with the Head of Finance (Adults, Public Health and Housing), to increase the Ward Housing Hubs budget (on a ward-by-ward basis) by the value of the Ward Housing Hub underspend in the preceding year within the 4-year cycle.

Having received details of the value of uncommitted budget, ward by ward, as at the end of financial year 2022/23, in consultation and agreement with Corporate Finance, the decision has been made by the Assistant Director of Housing to increase the Ward Housing Hub budget by this amount in 2023/24.

Details of alternative options considered and rejected:

None. The decision has been made in accordance with the Cabinet authorisation agreed in December 2019.

Conflicts of interest declared by any Cabinet Member consulted by the decision maker which relates to the decision:

None.

Dispensations Granted:

(If any)

None.

Reports or parts of reports considered

Anne Marie Lubanski, Strategic Director of Adult Care, Housing and Public Health

“Area Housing Panels Review”, Cabinet, 23^rd December 2019.

James Smith, Tenant Engagement Manager,

Report: “Ward Housing Hub Budget 2023/24 - carry forward” May 2023