The Deputy Mayor had accepted this matter as urgent business due to the 12 October 2020 deadline for local authorities to have arrangements in place to administer payments.

Members were advised that the Government had set down the requirements for two payment schemes to be administered by the Council to help control the transmission of the Covid-19 virus.

1. The Test and Trace Payments Scheme, the standard scheme
2. The Test and Trace Discretionary Payments Scheme, the discretionary scheme

Members were being asked to delegate authority to the Director of Corporate Resources to finalise and implement the Brentwood Test & Trace Discretionary Payments Scheme.

Cllr Hossack MOVED and Cllr Parker SECONDED the recommendations in the report and following a debate it was RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY that:

1          The scheme as set out in Appendix Abe approved

2          Authority be delegated to the Council’s Director of Corporate Resources to finalise and implement the Brentwood Test & Trace Discretionary Payments Scheme and any requirement to amend the scheme in line with Government guidance.