Minutes for Council Excellence Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting, Nov 17 2011, 6.00PM official page

Members are asked to consider whether they have personal or prejudicial interests in connection with any item(s) on this agenda and, if so, to declare them and state what they are.

 

Members are reminded that they should also declare, pursuant to paragraph 18 of the Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rules, whether they are subject to a party whip in connection with any item(s) to be considered and, if so, to declare it and state the nature of the whipping arrangement.

To receive the minutes of the meetings held on 15 and 27 September 2011.

At the request of the Chair, the report of the Chief Executive in relation to Work Programme Progress and Associated Issues, to be considered by the Corporate Governance Cabinet Committee at its meeting on 16 November 2011, is presented for Members consideration.

The Forward Plan for the period November 2011 to February 2012 has now been published on the Council’s intranet/website and Members are invited to review the Plan prior to the meeting in order for the Council Excellence Overview and Scrutiny Committee to consider, having regard to the work programme, whether scrutiny should take place of any items contained within the Plan and, if so, how it could be done within relevant timescales and resources.

The public may be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information.

 

RECOMMENDED – That in accordance with section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business, on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined by the relevant paragraphs of Part 1 of Schedule 12A (as amended) to that Act. The public interest test has been applied and favours exclusion.