Issue - meetings

An update of the Commercial Directorate’s work programme

Meeting: 12/07/2022 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 120)

120 UPDATE OF THE COMMERCIAL DIRECTORATE WORK PROGRAMME pdf icon PDF 217 KB

REPORT OF THE SERVICE DIRECTOR – COMMERCIAL

 

To provide the committee with an update on the progress of the Commercial Directorate as set out in the departments work programme.

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED: That the Committee noted the report.

 

REASON FOR DECISION: The report is following the request of the committee for an update on the progress of the Commercial Directorate work programme and is for information only.

Minutes:

Audio Recording – 21 minutes 58 seconds

 

Councillor Keith Hoskins, as Executive Member for Enterprise and the Arts, presented the report and advised Members of the following:

 

·         There were no substantial updates to the report and it was similar to the verbal update provided to the Committee at the meeting in June.

·         The work tracker had been included as an appendix to put ongoing projects by the Commercial team into a concise and understandable form for monitoring by Officers and Members.

 

The Service Director – Commercial advised that the target for lottery tickets sold in the report was wrong and should be 530 not 803 as written, which meant that the project was ahead of target at 716.

 

In response to a question from the Chair, the Commercial Manager advised that the lottery was not advertised in the most recent Outlook magazine, but had been previously and were scheduled for future publications, and the team had increased its use of promotion through Facebook adverts. The had also been additional promotion from the good causes supported by the lottery to date.

 

The Chair thanked the Service Director – Commercial and his team for producing the work tracker spreadsheet included in the report and for its comprehensive look at the work ongoing in the department.

 

Councillor David Levett, as Chair, proposed and Councillor Val Bryant seconded and, following a vote, it was:

 

RESOLVED: That the Committee noted the report.

 

REASON FOR DECISION: The report is following the request of the committee for an update on the progress of the Commercial Directorate work programme and is for information only.