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Cabinet:

1.         
Noted the General Fund net revenue overspend of £14.8m (paragraph 4.1 of the submitted
report);

2.         
Noted the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) net
overspend of £1.3m (paragraph 4.24
of the submitted report);

3.         
Noted the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) underspend
of £0.3m, an in-year deficit of £4.8m, compared to the
budgeted deficit of £5.1m (paragraph 4.27 of the submitted
report);

4.         
Noted the capital programme outturn with an in-year
variance of £22.8m on the General Fund capital programme and
an in-year variance of £7.5m on the HRA capital programme
(paragraph 4.29 of the submitted report);

5.         
Noted that any re-phasing of the capital programme
would be approved under existing delegated authority;

6.         
Noted the performance of the Hounslow companies
(paragraph 4.41 of the submitted report);

7.         
Noted the performance against key corporate
financial indicators (paragraph 4.47 of the submitted
report);

8.         
Noted the bad debt written off under delegated
authority of £276k (paragraph 4.49 of the submitted
report);

9.         
Approved changes to highways fees and charges from 1
April 2025 to reflect contractual indexation in the Highways PFI
contract as set out in Appendix D of the submitted report;

10.     
Noted changes to statutory planning fees that took
effect from 1 April 2025 as set out in Appendix E of the submitted
report;

11.     
Approved the allocation of £2,650k in total
for area regeneration capital projects in the East, West and
Central areas from the unallocated General Fund capital programme
2025/26 (paragraph 4.33 of the submitted report);

12.     
Approved the allocation of £2,000k from the
unallocated General Fund capital programme 2025/26 to a capital
budget for the Pavement Pledge renewal of footways across the
borough during 2025/26 (paragraph 4.36 of the submitted
report);

13.     
Approved the allocation of Household Support Fund
grant of £3.6m (paragraph 6.1 of the submitted
report).