Capital Finance Working Group (CFWG)

The Capital Finance Working Group (CFWG) is a joint COSLA/Scottish Government working group, including representatives from CIPFA and Audit Scotland, which acts as the main forum for discussion of local government capital finance issues and policy. The terms of reference for the Group can be read here.

Agendas, papers and minutes from the meetings of the Capital Finance Working Group can be accessed through the links in the table below:

Date of Meeting
20 September 2011	Agenda	Actions arising from previous meeting Paper 42 - Update on Workplan Annex A - Forward Workplan Paper 43 - Draft Guidance for Scottish Local Authorities: Disposal or leasing of Housing Revenue Account (HRA) assets and the transfer of assets between the HRA and General Fund (GF) Paper 44 - National Limit on Local Authority Borrowing Paper 45 - Review of the Loans Fund Paper 46 - Collection of Information on Housing Paper 47 - New work plan item - Non-current asset insurance events and compensation Paper 47 - Annex A Paper 48 - Not presented Paper 49 - Review of 2010-11 Capital Returns	Draft Minutes
23 February 2011	Agenda	Paper 38 - Funding Capital Investment Paper 39 - Accounting for Investment Properties Paper 40 - Review of 2010-11 Capital Returns (CR Q2 2010-11) Paper 41 - Accounting for transfers between GF and HRA Forward Workplan	Minutes
25 August 2010	Agenda	Paper 33 - Review of 2009-10 Capital Returns (CR Q4 2009-10) Paper 34 - Funding Capital Investment Paper 35 - Reporting Reserves Data Paper 36 - Investment Properties Paper 37 - Remit of CFWG	Minutes
19 May 2010	Agenda	Paper 26 - Periods of repayment for loans fund advances Paper 27 - Capital Expenditure Report 2008-09 Paper 28 - Disposal of HRA Asssets or Transfer to General Fund Paper 29 - Consent to Borrow - A General Scheme Paper 30 - Review of Capital Returns 2009-10 Paper 31 - Review of Capital Returns 2008-09	Minutes
		Paper 32 - Reporting of Reserves in 2008-09 Capital Expenditure Report
24 February 2010	Agenda	Paper 24 - Review of 2009-10 Capital Returns Paper 25 - Operation of the Prudential Code	Minutes
26 August 2009	Agenda	Paper 20 - Reporting Capital Expenditure - The Structure and Coverage of the Capital Return Paper 21 - Scottish Local Authority Capital Expenditure 2007-08 - Draft Report Paper 22 - Operation of the Prudential Regime Paper 23 - Review of 2008-09 Capital Returns	Minutes
29 April 2009	Agenda	Paper 18 - Local Authority Provision of Mortgages to Home Buyers Paper 19 - Revenue Expenditure Funded from Capital Resources Under Statute	Minutes
25 February 2009	Agenda	Paper 16 - Forecast and Actual Capital Expenditure 2007-08 and 2008-09 Paper 17 - Changes to the "Consent to Borrow for Grants to Community Groups to Finance Capital Expenditure" Scheme Paper 17 annex A - Draft Finance Circular - "Consent to Borrow for Grants to Community Groups to Finance Capital Expenditure" Scheme	Minutes
6 August 2008	Agenda	Paper 14 - Borrowing periods for the repayment of loans fund advances Paper 15 - Statistics note - 2007-08	Minutes
27 February 2008	Agenda	Paper 11 - Borrowing periods for the repayment of loans fund advances Paper 12 - Contracting out of investment functions Paper 13 - Finance Circular No 23/1998	Minutes
13 August 2007	Agenda	Paper 8 - Update on Business Discussed at Meeting on 10 January 2007 Paper 9 - National Limit Paper 10 - Borrowing: periods for the repayment of loans fund advances	Minutes
10 January 2007	Agenda	Paper 6 - Accounting treatment of Local Authority Grants to Third Parties for Capital Expenditure Paper 7 - National Limit on Borrowing	Minutes
3 March 2006	Agenda	Paper 3 - Matters arising from meeting of CFWG on 30 August 2005 Paper 4 - Capital expenditure repoprts to HM Treasury Paper 5 - Emerging issues from first year of the Prudential System	Minutes*
30 August 2005	Agenda	Paper 1 - Draft protocol for managing of a potential National Limit Paper 2 - First quarter capital expenditure forecasts - provisional results	Minutes

* No minutes available. Scheduled meeting on 3 March 2006 did not take place due to lack of substantive items for discussion. Papers circulated for information only.

Page updated: Friday, October 14, 2011

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