Agenda

Members are asked to declare any interests they may have in the business to be discussed.

The minutes of the meeting of the Standards Committee, held on 22 November 2016 are attached and Members are asked to confirm that they are correct.

The Monitoring Officer to submit a report on revised arrangements for dealing with complaints against members and co-opted Members under the Localism Act 2011.  The Committee is requested to comment on the proposed amendments prior to them being submitted to the Council for approval.

Further to Minute No. 10 of the Committee’s meeting in 14 November 2016, the Monitoring Officer to submit a discussion paper on future arrangement meetings of the Committee.

The Monitoring Officer submits a report giving feedback on complaints against Councillors reviewed and/or determined from 18 June 2016 to 14 November 2016 and updating the Committee on progress with outstanding complaints against Councillors.  The Committee is recommended to receive and note the report.

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO NOTE

This report is a public document but during its consideration, Members may wish to discuss some of the issues in more detail. Under the law, the Committee is entitled to consider certain items in private.  In this event, the Committee will make the following resolution and the press and members of the public will be asked to leave the meeting when such items are discussed.

“that the press and public be excluded during consideration of the following report in accordance with the provisions of Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, because it involves the likely disclosure of 'exempt' information, as defined in the Paragraphs detailed below of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act and taking all the circumstances into account, it is considered that the public interest in maintaining the information as exempt outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Paragraph 1

Information relating to any individual.

Paragraph 2

Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.

Paragraph 7c

The deliberations of a standards committee or of a sub-committee of a standards committee established under the provisions of Part 3 of the Local Government Act 2000 in reaching any finding on a matter referred under the provisions of section 60(2) or (3), 64(2), 70(4) or (5) or 71(2) of that Act.