We would like your views on the production of an Annual Report.

Each year the Council undergoes a review by the Audit Commission to ensure that it uses it resources efficiently.  Part of this assessment looks at how the Council reports performance and financial information to residents, businesses and other organisations.

 
One of the requirements of that assessment is to establish if Craven District Council can - 

‘demonstrate that it is considering the views of a range of stakeholders in making a decision whether to publish an annual report.’

 
An Annual Report would replace the Annual Performance Plan which the Council was previously required to produce and publish by law by the end of June each year. 

The Annual Report would summarise what the Council has achieved over the previous year, incorporate financial information in the form of a summary Statement of Accounts, and give details of some of our future plans.

 
The document will be published around August each year, and would cost around £4000 to produce. This would be met from existing Council budgets which were previously available to publish the Annual Performance Plan. 
 

Tell us what you think

We would like to know the views of residents, customers, local businesses and other interested parties as to whether we should publish an Annual Report.

We would also like your comments and suggestions on what information you may like to see contained within it. 

You can download the Annual Report Questionnaire and return it to us at the address below, or

You can give your comments to the Council's Corporate Performance Manager by email, fax, telephone or in writing, using the contact details below. 

 
Closing Date for Comments: Friday 27 June 2008