Councillor Darcy, Cabinet Member for Finance and IT,  introduced the report to Cabinet.

Councillor Darcy thanked the Place and Corporate Overview and Scrutiny Committee for the pre-decision scrutiny and the recommendations which had been responded to within the report.

Andrew Hardingham, Interim Joint Director for Transformation and Change (Finance), highlighted that the Council’s existing back office services would provide more value to Plymouth City Council and Plymouth if delivered through a public sector shared service provider and Delt is recommended as the best option.

Functions of Plymouth City Councils Corporate Services would be considered individually as candidates for migration to Delt over the following 18 months to 2 years, and future business cases for each of the services would require political approval before any transfer takes place. 

Following questions Cabinet agreed -

1.    to develop business cases and service specifications for services that might be transferred to Delt. 

2.    That business cases would be reviewed by Scrutiny and Cabinet for approval before any transfers takes place.