The Forward Plan contains details of Key Decisions that are to be made by the Cabinet, Cabinet member, committee of Cabinet or an officer in discharging executive functions.

Key Decisions are those executive decisions that are likely to either • result in the Council incurring expenditure which is, or the making of savings which are, significant having regard to the Council’s budget for the service or function to which the decision relates, or is likely to be significant in terms of its effect on communities living or working in an area comprising one or more wards or electoral divisions in the area of the Council.” • for the purposes of the above, savings and expenditure are “significant” if they are equal to or greater than £500,000 (provided that contract awards will be delegated to appropriate portfolio holders for decision).

Before any Key Decision is made, 28 clear days must have passed since details of the matter were included in the Forward Plan.

The Forward Plan will also highlight any Key Decisions that the Cabinet is due to make where elements of Key Decision reports are expected to be considered in private and the reason why. This would be because the report contains confidential, commercially sensitive or personal information as set out in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended). There is information within each Forward Plan that tells you what you should do and how if you feel that any reports that are to be discussed in private should be considered in public.