Agenda item

Questions to the Leader

To receive questions submitted to the Leader under Standing Order No.14

Minutes:

Under Standing Order No.14 Members asked the Leader the following questions and received verbal responses to their questions.

 

·        Councillor Wall asked that as one of the council’s main priorities was the health and wellbeing of residents of the borough, would the leader join with him to express support for the junior doctor’s strike.

 

·        Councillor Bagley expressed concern about government plans to make all schools into academies, and asked how the council could work with the County Council and other organisations to oppose these changes.

 

·        Councillor Hitchin asked the leader to join with him in expressing support and solidarity with the families of the victims of Hillsborough, in the light of the recent inquest verdicts.

 

·        Councillor Simmons asked about to what extent the number of members had increased at the new Queen’s Park Sports Centre.