Portsmouth City Borough Council
Councillors:
42
Wards:
14
Committees:
37
Meetings (2025):
120
Meetings (2024):
154
Meeting
Cabinet - Portsmouth City
Meeting Times
Scheduled Time
Start:
Wednesday, 8th January 2025
6:00 PM
Wednesday, 8th January 2025
6:00 PM
End:
Wednesday, 8th January 2025
10:00 PM
Wednesday, 8th January 2025
10:00 PM
Meeting Status
Status:
Confirmed; Extraordinary
Confirmed; Extraordinary
Date:
08 Jan 2025
08 Jan 2025
Location:
Council Chamber - The Guildhall, Portsmouth
Council Chamber - The Guildhall, Portsmouth
Meeting Attendees
Vice-Chair
Deputy Leader of the Council; Cabinet Member for Housing and Tackling Homelessness
Cabinet Member
Cabinet Member for Central Services
Cabinet Member
Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Greening the City
Cabinet Member
Cabinet Member for Transport
Cabinet Member
Cabinet Member for Community Safety, Leisure & Sport
Cabinet Member
Cabinet Member for Planning Policy & City Development
Cabinet Member
Cabinet Member for Community Wellbeing, Health & Care
Chair
Leader of the Council (with portfolio responsibility for Culture, Regeneration & Economic Development)
Cabinet Member
Cabinet Member for Environmental Services
Agenda
1
Apologies for Absence
2
Declarations of Interests
3
Hampshire & The Solent Devolution Agreement and Local Government Reorganisation (LGR)
Purpose
The purpose of this report is to seek approval from Cabinet for a letter to be submitted proposing that Portsmouth City Council should actively seek to be part of a Hampshire & The Solent Devolution Agreement with a Directly Elected Mayor as part of the Devolution Priority Programme (DPP) and that the Leader and Chief Executive should be given delegated authority to negotiate and provisionally agree matters related to devolution and priority options for Local Government Reorganisation (LGR).
Recommendations
Cabinet is recommended:
a) To agree that Portsmouth City Council should seek to be a part of the Hampshire & The Solent Devolution Agreement thereby avoiding a Ministerial direction for what a devolved area will look like.
b) Assuming recommendation a) is agreed, that Portsmouth City Council, alongside our partner upper tier authorities in Hampshire & The Solent, should seek to be part of the national Devolution Priority Programme (DPP) and submit a letter to Government to this effect.
c) To note that in agreeing recommendations a) and b), and subject to the Government agreeing that Hampshire and the Solent should be part of the DPP, that Portsmouth will be asked to submit outline proposals for LGR in March 2025 and final proposals in the Autumn (rather than final proposals in May 2025).
d) To give delegated authority to the Leader and to the Chief Executive to negotiate and take forward devolution and LGR discussions with other authorities and with The Government.
e) To agree that further papers will come to Cabinet (and Council where appropriate) about progress in these policy areas.
The purpose of this report is to seek approval from Cabinet for a letter to be submitted proposing that Portsmouth City Council should actively seek to be part of a Hampshire & The Solent Devolution Agreement with a Directly Elected Mayor as part of the Devolution Priority Programme (DPP) and that the Leader and Chief Executive should be given delegated authority to negotiate and provisionally agree matters related to devolution and priority options for Local Government Reorganisation (LGR).
Recommendations
Cabinet is recommended:
a) To agree that Portsmouth City Council should seek to be a part of the Hampshire & The Solent Devolution Agreement thereby avoiding a Ministerial direction for what a devolved area will look like.
b) Assuming recommendation a) is agreed, that Portsmouth City Council, alongside our partner upper tier authorities in Hampshire & The Solent, should seek to be part of the national Devolution Priority Programme (DPP) and submit a letter to Government to this effect.
c) To note that in agreeing recommendations a) and b), and subject to the Government agreeing that Hampshire and the Solent should be part of the DPP, that Portsmouth will be asked to submit outline proposals for LGR in March 2025 and final proposals in the Autumn (rather than final proposals in May 2025).
d) To give delegated authority to the Leader and to the Chief Executive to negotiate and take forward devolution and LGR discussions with other authorities and with The Government.
e) To agree that further papers will come to Cabinet (and Council where appropriate) about progress in these policy areas.
Attachments:
- Document Cabinet 8 Jan 2025 - Devolution and LGR 30 Dec 2024
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