Agenda item

The Cabinet Member with the Efficiency and Resources Portfolio introduced the report of the Managing Director (previously circulated) requesting that consideration be given to the latest Xentrall Annual Report.

The submitted report stated that Xentrall Shared Services, the Stockton and Darlington Partnership, was established in May 2008 and had just celebrated its tenth anniversary; the agreement covered ICT (strategy and operations), Transactional HR, Transactional Finance and Design and Print; the initial savings that were identified were £7.4 m over a ten year period; and that those savings had been achieved, and that the additional efficiencies and benefits that had been made were almost double the original target; and that in recognition of the success of the partnership it had been amended from the original ten year period into an on-going rolling agreement.

RESOLVED - That the report be noted and the success of Xentrall in reaching its tenth anniversary and achieving almost double its original savings target of £7.4m, be acknowledged.

REASON - To allow Members to receive information about the progress of the partnership.