• To make reports or recommendations to the ITA with respect to the discharge of the ITA’s functions;

• To review or scrutinise the decisions made or other action taken, in connection with the discharge of the ITA’s functions;

• To make reports or recommendations to the ITA on matters which affect Tyne & Wear and which relate to the ITA’s functions.

Please note:

Members of the ITA Scrutiny  Committee will not be members of the ITA, the Committee will not have the additional power of ‘call-in’ and delay the implementation of decisions made by the ITA unless it has asked the Authority to reconsider its decision first.

The responsibility for monitoring financial probity lies with the ITA’s Standards and Audit Committee whose remit includes responsibility for the Authority’s internal control system and promoting and maintaining high standards of conduct by authority members.