Performance Scrutiny Committee Meeting: Performance Report

Please click here to view the Performance Report and the agenda for the Performance Scrutiny Committee on Thursday, 2nd March 2023, 6.00 pm | City of Lincoln

This report presents the performance measure targets for 2023/24 to the Performance Scrutiny Committee for review in advance of the targets being presented to the Executive.

The performance measure targets are reviewed on an annual basis to ensure they remain appropriate but suitably challenging. As with previous years, target setting for 2023/24 has focused largely on the analysis of the council’s performance outturn trend over recent quarters / years, alongside the expected impacts over the coming year. Where available benchmarking data has been used, however, the availability of this data is extremely limited. For 2023/24 target setting some measures have seen their targets reduced due to increasing financial pressures on the council, resource impacts, recruitment pressures and the cost of living crisis - all of which will inevitably continue to impact on performance. However, in some cases the targets have been increased where some improvement in performance is expected.

The meeting will cover:

• Performance Measure Targets for 2023/24
• The Christmas Market Outturn Report 2022
• Work Programme 2023/24

The meeting will take place Thursday 2nd March 2023 6.00 pm, at the City Hall, Lincoln, LN1 1DD.

The council currently has a set of strategic performance measures in place used to monitor the performance of the council. These measures include a mix of targeted quarterly and annual measures, alongside a number of volumetric measures which are used for contextual purposes. All targeted measures have either a high, low or 'not of concern' target allocated to them. Where the outturn is equal to or above the high target, the level of performance is considered to be at or above target. Where the outturn falls below the low target, the performance outturn is considered to be performing below target. Those measures performing above or below target are highlighted within the quarterly Operational Performance Report as success stories or measures of concern requiring further monitoring / action.

The following items are available to download on the above link:

1. Declarations of Interest
2. Performance Measure Targets for 2023/24  
   1. Copy of Appendix A - Target Setting 2023-24 Master Spreadsheet
3. Christmas Market Outturn Report 2022 
4. Work Programme 2023/24
   1. Performance Scrutiny Work Programme 2023