Agenda

The Chair will welcome the two newly appointed Co-opted Members of Standards Committee – Nicola Hanns & Aoife Scannell.

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of Urgent Business. Late items of Urgent Business will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items of unrestricted urgent business will be dealt with under Item 10 below. New items of exempt urgent business will be dealt with under Item  14 below.

A Member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

A Member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 8.1-15.2 of Section Two of Part 5 of the Constitution  and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

This report advises Standards Committee of the recent comparison of the Council’s current Ethical Standards arrangements in place to identify whether they conform to the fifteen best practice recommendations identified by the CSPL report, arising from a recommendation of the Standards Committee of 16 September 2019.

This report provides Standards Committee with an update of the review of the Members Declaration of Interests form arising from a recommendation of the Standards Committee of 16 September 2019.

To consider any items of unrestricted urgent business.

There are no other scheduled meetings of Standards Committee in the current Municipal Year 2019/20.

The provisional 2020/21 meetings of the Committee are scheduled to take place on:

14 July 2020

17 February 2021

Note from the Governance Services Manager

In respect of the following exempt item of business to be considered the Chair shall move the following resolution:

THAT the press and public be excluded from the proceedings of the Standards Committee during consideration of Exempt item 12 on the agenda on the grounds that it is likely, in the view of the nature of the business to be transacted, that were members of the public to be present, there would be disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part 1 Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 as amended.

To consider any items of exempt urgent business.