Councillor Smith, Deputy Leader made announcements including:

·         Over 300 planned celebration events including VE Day and the Ocean Festival;

·         Additional events planned with other organisers, including Plymouth Pride;

·         Box opening events;

·         Development of Central Park event space.

Councillor Kate Taylor, Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care made announcements including:

·         The Mental Health Roundtable and work underway to better strengthen links with Devon and Cornwall Police;

·         Support for carers and the Supporting Carers event taking place later today;

·         The opening of the Plympton Health and Wellbeing Hub;

·         Ongoing lobbying in respect of dementia funding for the city;

·         Support and funding for our veterans;

·         Campaign for CPD funding for nurses employed by Livewell South West;

·         The launch of an initiative to send birthday cards to local residents when they reach 100 years of age.

Councillor Laing, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People made announcements including:

·         Congratulations to the newly elected members of the Youth Parliament and to all those that campaigned;

·         The recent young carers orchestra performance.

Councillor Haydon, Cabinet Member for Community Safety and Customer Focus made announcements including the following:

·         Safer Plymouth and partnership working;

·         Domestic Homicide Review training attended by many multi-agency partners;

·         Efford Crematorium repairs continue and it is anticipated it will reopen at the end of April;

·         Progress on the new crematorium site continues;

·         Relocation of the registration office including physical transport of registers dating back to 1837. This is now co-located with the Plymouth Coroners Court.

Councillor Dann, Cabinet Member for Environment and Street Scene made announcements including:

·         The submission of a bid for £200,000 to the Department of Transport to support businesses across the city to have a cargo bike for transport of smaller items;

·         The Keep Britain Tidy Spring Clean Initiative will take place once again this year; 576 people took part last year collecting a 1056 bags of litter;

·         An update on the Future Parks Accelerator funding and the importance of good green space.

Councillor Coker, Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning and Infrastructure made announcements including:

·         A reflection on the achievements and numerous awards achieved by the service during the year;

·         The £7m scheme at Charles Cross delivered on time and on budget;

·         The modal shift in the way in which children and parents are travelling to school to more sustainable modes of travel.

Councillor Jon Taylor, Cabinet Member for Education, Skills and Transformation made announcements including:

·         The Hearts of the Arts award for 2020 with Plymouth Music Zone;

·         Saltram Meadow and the new school being established there;

·         The Full Fibre Network Project with work due to begin shortly and preferred bidder soon to be announced;

·         Smartsound Bid for £1.8m of funding to enable Plymouth as a national centre for marine autonomy.

Councillor Penberthy, Cabinet Member for Housing and Co-operative Development made announcements including:

·         Shortlisting at the Local Government Chronicle Awards for Plan for Homes;

·         Plan for Homes has now 5563 delivered homes in the first five years, of which 1529 are affordable homes, 229 are at social rent;

·         The work done on reducing the housing waiting list and on homelessness prevention;

·         The work undertaken by the inclusive economy team, supporting growth and wellbeing of businesses in the city in a variety of ways.