Agenda item

The Executive RESOLVED that

(i)            the funding received from the Contain Outbreak Management Fund and the expenditure made against tranches 1 and 2 of the fund be noted; and

(ii)          authority be delegated to the Section 151 Officer, in consultation with the Environment & Health Portfolio Holder and Finance Portfolio Holder, to make expenditure from the Contain Outbreak Management Fund against categories set out in Annex A to the agenda report.

The Executive was informed that a government fund known as the Contain Outbreak Management Fund (COMF) had been set up to provide funding to local authorities to help reduce the spread of coronavirus and support local public health initiatives during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The total funding for Surrey was calculated based on the alert level which areas were in at the time and on a per population head basis, with districts and boroughs allocated 37.5% of the county funding. This Council had successfully bid for the funding which had now been received. The funding was allocated in five tranches: payment totalling £359,483 had been received for tranches 1 and 2 and the Council’s entitlement for tranches 3 to 5 amounted to £440,146.07.

It was reported that the funds had to be spent on pre-determined categories, which were set out in the agenda report.

RESOLVED that

(i)        the funding received from the Contain Outbreak Management Fund and the expenditure made against tranches 1 and 2 of the fund be noted; and

(ii)      authority be delegated to the Section 151 Officer, in consultation with the Environment & Health Portfolio Holder and Finance Portfolio Holder, to make expenditure from the Contain Outbreak Management Fund against categories set out in Annex A to the agenda report.