The committee considered the quarter 3 update on the council's Corporate Risk Register and the draft revenue budget for 2026/27. It approved the recommendations in both reports. The revised budget deficit for 2026/27 is £0.509 million, and officers said no extra cuts to school budgets are planned.
This joint committee checks the council's work (scrutiny). It considered three finance and performance reports: £354,000 of in-year savings for 2025/26, the quarter 2 performance, risk and finance report, and an update on the 2026/27 budget and medium-term financial plan. The minutes record officers' answers to members' questions but no decisions, and each report asks members to note or review the information.
The joint committee considered the 2025/26 revenue budget for Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. The minute records questions from members and comments on future plans, but it does not record a decision.
No declarations of interest were made, and the Chair reported no urgent business. The committee then resolved to exclude the public, because the business involved exempt information under the Local Government Act 1972.
The Chair reported no urgent business. Members then resolved to exclude the public from the rest of the meeting, because the item involves the likely disclosure of exempt information (information the law lets a council keep private), and the minute does not say what that item covered.
The meeting dealt only with procedural business, including apologies for absence and declarations of interest, and no declarations were made. The Chair found no urgent other business. The committee then resolved to exclude the public from the following item, because the minute says it involves exempt information, meaning information the law allows the council to keep private.
The meeting recorded apologies and declarations of interest for the Revenue Budget 2023/24 and Medium Term Financial Plan Update. It then agreed to exclude the public, because the business that followed involved exempt information.
The minutes are published. No summary has been written yet.