Councillor County Yousuf Motala
Email: yousuf.motala@lancashire.gov.uk
Council: Lancashire
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Activity Timeline
Meetings Attended Note this may include planned future meetings.
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Community, Cultural, and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 26th March, 2026 10.30 am
Extraordinary General Meeting, Full Council - Thursday, 26th February, 2026 12.55 pm
The Full Council of Lancashire County Council met on Thursday, 26 February 2026, to discuss and approve the council's budget for the upcoming financial years. The meeting also saw the appointment of a new Corporate Director of Finance and Section 151 Officer.
Budget Meeting, Full Council - Thursday, 26th February, 2026 1.00 pm
The Full Council of Lancashire County Council met on Thursday, 26th February 2026, to approve the council's budget for the 2026/27 financial year. The meeting saw the approval of the main budget proposals, which included a 3.8% increase in council tax, alongside the defeat of several opposition amendments put forward by the Progressive Lancashire Group, the Conservative Group, the Liberal Democrat Group, and Our West Lancashire Group. The council also noted the report of the Interim Director of Finance and Commerce regarding the robustness of budget estimates and the adequacy of financial reserves.
Community, Cultural, and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 12th February, 2026 10.30 am
The Community, Cultural and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee met on Thursday, 12 February 2026, to discuss the future of the library service, workforce updates, and the committee's work programme. Key decisions included supporting the development of a new library strategy and considering recommendations for library service sustainability.
Decisions from Meetings
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Minutes of the Meeting Held on 26 September 2024
From: Community, Cultural, and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 31st October, 2024 10.30 am - October 31, 2024
Recommendations Approved
Workforce Matters
From: Community, Cultural, and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 31st October, 2024 10.30 am - October 31, 2024
Oversight to cover areas of priority for 2024/25: • Continued focus on absence & productivity and data and metrics • Improve senior leadership resilience through succession planning • Improve manager capability through targeted development interventions • Support the organisation to change and redesign itself to support financial resilience - (HR, Absenteeism Recruitment and Performance Management) Organisational resilience – benchmarking Areas of consideration by CCCS Scrutiny from- • Deep-dive into sickness absence and our response • Deep-dive into recruitment and retention and workforce planning • Workforce demographics by service area and the risks/opportunities it presents Key questions / issues: • How is the council benchmarked r.e. performance management, hard-to-fill roles and sickness absence levels? • What are the hard-to-fill roles and what is officers' view on why the council is not attracting people to these roles? What do think tanks or external organisations suggest? • How is the council progressing against the Workforce Equality Strategy, and what areas are there for further research and improvement?
Recommendations Approved
The Audit, Risk and Governance Committee
From: Full Council - Thursday, 17th October, 2024 1.00 pm - October 17, 2024
...to note the report of the Audit, Risk and Governance Committee from its meeting on 22 July 2024.
Recommendations Approved
Report of the Lancashire Combined Fire Authority
From: Full Council - Thursday, 17th October, 2024 1.00 pm - October 17, 2024
...to note the report of the Lancashire Combined Fire Authority from its meetings on 24 June 2024 and 16 September 2024.
Recommendations Approved
The Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board
From: Full Council - Thursday, 17th October, 2024 1.00 pm - October 17, 2024
...to note the report of the Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board presented from its meetings on 7 May 2024, 15 July 2024 and 3 September 2024.
Recommendations Approved
Summary
Meetings Attended: 40
Average per Month: 1.4
Decisions Recorded: 122