Purpose

In the Local Government Finance Settlement for
2024/25 Councils were required to produce productivity plans. On 16
April 2024, the Minister (Simon Hoare MP) required those plans to
address the four themes of:

How the Council has transformed the way services were designed and
delivered and to better use resources.
How technology and data could improve decision making, service
design and resource use.
How wasteful spend was being driven out of systems within the
Council
The barriers preventing progress and the ask of Government to
reduce/remove those barriers.

The productivity plans needed to be submitted by 19 July
2024.

Content

That, following endorsement by the Leader of
the Council to its content, the productivity plan for the Council
be submitted to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local
Government within the deadline set for submission of the
plan.