Can the portfolio holder give an update on any planned highways infrastructure projects in Bradford District using West Yorkshire Combined Authority funds?

10.          Councillor Brown           

Can the Leader of the Council confirm whether she is aware of any increase in car collisions, due to roadside vegetation obscuring road signs?

11.          Councillor Jamil

Can the portfolio holder provide figures on the percentage of Bradford District schools rated Good or better by Ofsted. Please include a breakdown of primary and secondary, and also local authority maintained and academy/free schools?

12.          Councillor Jeanette Sunderland

To ask the Portfolio Holder for Environment, Sport & Sustainability - Could the Portfolio Holder tell us the steps they are taking to remove the thousands of unwanted brown bins from across the District?

13.          Councillor Berry

Can the portfolio holder outline the impact of government proposals to change early years funding on Bradford’s highly regarded nursery schools?

14.          Councillor Whiteley

What percentage of known drug addicts have children living with them in Bradford compared to the national figure?

15.          Councillor Jamil

Will the portfolio holder tell us about the alternate weekly bin collections pilot and what are her plans for rolling it out across the District?

16.          Councillor Warburton

Does the Leader welcome the independent auditor’s positive report on the Council’s financial planning and governance?

17.          Councillor Pennington

In light of HS3 potentially passing through the Bradford District, much to the benefit of the local economy and job prospects for local residents, would the Leader of the Council consider it appropriate to halt any further preliminary works relating to the proposed City Centre Swimming Pool, as its location is that most likely to be approved for an electrified high speed rail connection?

18.          Councillor Malcolm Slater

In light of the flooding last winter, what checks do we do on gullies in areas of high flood risk?

19.          Councillor Jeanette Sunderland

To ask the Portfolio Holder for Environment, Sport & Sustainability - Kirklees Council has been criticised for requiring householders to register their vehicles online before they can take their rubbish to the tip. Could the Portfolio Holder advise us if they are planning to do the same in Bradford?

20.          Councillor Ellis

Would the Leader of the Council confirm that the proposed methods for the collection of recyclable waste conforms with the government’s desire to reduce the cross contamination of recyclables, which currently results in much of it being left unfit for recycling, thus undermining the efforts of local residents and causing huge amounts of recyclables being disposed of via environmentally unfriendly methods?

21.          Councillor Whiteley

How many requests were made to this Council for help with adult social care in the last two years? Please provide the Numbers by ward and indicate how many of these applications resulted in help paid for by the council how many led to self funded care?

22.          Councillor Fear

To ask the Leader of Council - Following the Boxing Day floods, how much money was the Council given to allocate to domestic properties under the flood resilience grant? How much of this was allocated?

23.          Councillor Hawkesworth

What is the budget for events in centre of the city for 2016-2017?

24.          Councillor Ali

Could the Portfolio Holder for Environment, Sport & Culture provide details of the revenue generated by the introduction of bulky waste collection fees and also fines for fly tipping and the increased cost of removing fly tipping, during the same period, broken down monthly, since the introduction of the charges?

25.          Councillor Dale Smith

Can the Leader of Council tell us how, when and at what cost the steps leading to Margaret Macmillan Towers will be made safer for disabled people?

26.          Councillor Poulsen

Can the Portfolio Holder update me on the current length of time to action gully cleaning requests and how many are currently awaiting action per ward?

27.          Councillor Fear

To ask the Leader of Council - Following the Boxing Day floods, how much money was the Council given to allocate to commercial properties under the flood resilience grant? How much of this was allocated? 

28.          Councillor Pennington

In light of the recent interruption in the City Hall refurbishment works, could the Leader of the Council confirm whether the problem resulted in any additional cost to the Council?

29.      Councillor Whiteley

Now that the Inspector has agreed that a large number of houses can be built between Addingham and Menston , what plans does this Council have to ring fence Council owned land at Ben Rhydding for educational purposes as there is no other suitable land on which to build a new secondary school on when one is needed?

30.          Councillor Jeanette Sunderland

To ask the Portfolio Holder for Education, Skills and Culture - The Education Secretary has announced six areas, identified as the most challenged when it comes to social mobility, will have access to funding to address the biggest challenges they face. Can the Portfolio Holder tell us what steps he took to have Bradford included on the list of Opportunity Areas?

31.          Councillor Poulsen

Can the Portfolio Holder advise colleagues as to what work has been carried out by the Council to make repairs at the Mill Hey bridge in Haworth following the Boxing Day?

32.          Councillor Davies

Would the Portfolio Holder for Childrens’ Services agree with me, that before publicly declaring 19 school sixth forms to be “unviable” based simply on the fact they have fewer than 250 pupils, wouldn’t it have been wiser and more helpful to look at the reasons why pupils choose to go to these sixth forms, the results achieved and the schools’ plans for the future?

33.          Councillor Naylor

Could the Leader provide a progress report on the Odeon together with any future deadlines that need to be met?

34.          Councillor Whiteley

Given that recent reports in the Telegraph and Argus state that ambulance response times are inadequate in the district and particularly in rural areas can the portfolio holder confirm what training is given to those areas provided with defibrillators and are how often have these been used compared with the number of reported emergencies?

35.          Councillor Cooke

Cllr Imran Khan sensationally claimed in the T&A in August that “the cost of schools becoming academies has the potential to bankrupt Bradford Council” – could he advise us how much money the Council has spent so far on writing off deficits associated with sponsored academy conversions? 

36.          Councillor Jeanette Sunderland

To ask the Portfolio Holder for Health and Social Care - Can the Portfolio Holder advise us, for each of the last five years, what are the minimum, maximum and average waiting times that a young person has to wait to access the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service?

37.          Councillor Whiteley

Would the Leader of the Council agree that Council School Transport Policies should be transparent and devised and implemented in a manner which does not discriminate against children from any part of the Bradford District and allows parents to make school places choices, which are appropriately informed regarding the Council’s school transport policies?

 



 



38.          Councillor Brown



Does the relevant department have a maintenance schedule for
clearing overgrown snickets? 



 



 



39.          Councillor Jeanette
Sunderland



To ask the Portfolio Holder
for Environment, Sport & Sustainability - Could the Portfolio Holder tell
us the total amount of domestic waste being collected from households for each
of the last 5 years?