Issue - meetings

Report CSD22080

The report proposed that an amendment be made to the Council’s Constitution regarding the composition of the Standards Committee. As currently worded, the Constitution prevented members of the Executive from sitting on the Standards Committee, but, following the Localism Act 2011, this provision was no longer required in law and could be removed.

The Constitution also limited the membership of the Committee to five members – three from the majority group and one each for the next two groups. Now that there were four groups on the Council, members considered that it was appropriate to alter this to allow representation from all groups.

RESOLVED that Council be recommended to update Article 9 of the Constitution – The Standards Committee – by

(1) Replacing the current paragraph 9.2 (a) with –

“The Standards Committee will have a membership comprising one member from each minority group and sufficient members of the majority group to maintain a majority.”

(2) Replacing the current paragraph 9.2 (b) with –

“Members of the Executive may sit on the Standards Committee, subject to not being in a majority.”

(Councillor Nicholas Bennett did not vote on resolution (2).)