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Councillor Willmott submits a report seeking Cabinet’s approval to revised Political Conventions, which have been updated in the light of the new political management structures, recent legislation and other issues which have arisen since the last review and also to approve a Procedure for Dealing with Complaints against Councillors.  The Cabinet is also recommended to  ask the Standards Committee in due course to consider how best to promote understanding and observance of the Conventions.

Councillor Willmott submitted a report seeking Cabinet’s approval for revised Political Conventions which had been updated in the light of the new political management structures, recent legislation and other issues which have arisen since the last review. The report also introduced a Procedure for Dealing with Complaints Against Councillors.

RESOLVED:

(1)that the updated Political Conventions and Procedure for Dealing with Complaints Against Councillors be approved and referred to Council for adoption, subject to the views of the Standards Committee in due course; and

(2)that the Standards Committee be asked to consider how best to promote understanding and observance of the Conventions.