Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Finance, Assets and Resources providing an overview of the performance of the Revenues and Housing Benefits Services in 2017/18.

The Cabinet had before it and NOTED a * report of the Director of Finance, Assets and Resources reporting on the Council Tax, Non Domestic Rates and Housing Benefit Performance for 2017/18.

He outlined the contents of the report stating that in difficult times, this was a very good news story.  2017/18 had seen some minor changes to the Council Tax Reduction Scheme, a slight relaxing in some of the preceptors ability to increase their share of the Council Tax and a delay in the local roll-out of Universal Credit. Those challenges had been well managed within the two service areas and we still have seen excellent levels of performance regarding both collection levels and speed of response times.

Note: *Report previously circulated, copy attached to minutes.