AGENDA ITEM NO. 19
COUNCIL MEETING – 10 DECEMBER 2013
MEMBERS’ QUESTIONS
NO.
QUESTION
FROM
Councillor
Huw
Bevan
QUESTION
TO BE ANSWERED BY
Over 2,000 homeless families are living in B&Bs – an increase of 8% from 2012,
according to government figures. Shelter has warned that children’s health can
suffer living in such accommodation, which is meant to only be temporary. At
the end of June, 790 families had been living in B&Bs for longer than the sixweek legal limit. Can the Executive Member please advise how many families
there are within Torfaen that are in temporary B&B accommodation and whether
any have been there for longer than the six week legal limit?
Councillor
Gwyneira
Clark
–
Executive
Member for Housing
Planning and Public
Protection
2.
Councillor
Mary
Barnett
The Council papers record recent Cabinet decisions and indicate that there has
been a discussion on the subject of redistributing the duties of the Deputy Chief
Executive upon his retirement next year. Would the Leader please outline the
proposed arrangements for redistribution of the varied and very demanding
workload of this tremendously diligent, dedicated and highly valued officer who
has worked so assiduously to support the Chief Executive, Staff, Members and
Torfaen residents.
Councillor
Bob
Wellington – Leader of
the Council
3.
Councillor
Jeff Rees
A fydd Arweinydd yn cymryd y cyfle hwn i ddiweddaru'r Cyngor am faterion yn
ymwneud ag achos llys uwch swyddog mewn perthynas â gweithgareddau
honedig yn yr SRS?
Councillor
Bob
Wellington – Leader of
the Council
1
In English: Will the Leader take this opportunity to update the Council about
matters pertaining to the potential trial of a senior officer in relation to alleged
activities at the SRS?
P.T.O.
4.
Councillor
Maria
Graham
Is a reason why Llantarnam School has been potentially chosen for closure,
rather than Fairwater High School, because the Llantarnam site is more suited
to having an all Torfaen post 16 provision moved there afterwards?
Councillor Brian Mawby
– Executive Member for
Children and Young
People
5.
Councillor
Huw Bevan
Can the Leader advise why TCBC has not signed up to paying Council Councillor Wellington –
employees and contractors on low incomes the living wage rather than the Leader of the Council
minimum wage?
6.
Councillor
Jeff Rees
Sir Merrick Cockell, Chairman of the Local Government Association recently
said:
Councillor
Bob
Wellington – Leader of
the Council
"The Barnett Formula has passed its use-by date. It is an historic relic from a
time when the Government stopped people taking more than £50 on a holiday
abroad. What was only ever intended as a stop-gap solution has now become a
major problem which is short-changing English communities and underfunding
their public services by £4.1 billion a year. We now need a fair and equitable
distribution of public money across the Union.”
Does the Leader agree with him?
7.
Councillor
Huw Bevan
Please can you kindly advise whether TCBC has taken part in the ongoing Councillor
Gwyneira
consultation process with Bron Afon over their rent review for tenants, and if so Clark
–
Executive
what were the recommendations?
Member for Housing
Planning and Public
Protection