Issue - meetings

To provide an opportunity for Members and Officers to declare any disclosable pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests in any item on the agenda.

In the interests of openness and transparency, in respect of item 9) Member Code of Conduct Sub Committee Report (Handforth Parish Council) the Chair noted that three members of the Committee (Councillors Carol Bulman, Rachel Bailey and Margaret Simon) had formed a Hearing Sub-Committee for Handforth Parish Council, however none of the meetings went ahead as they were either postponed or cancelled.

In the interests of openness and transparency in respect of item 9) Member Code of Conduct Sub Committee Report (Handforth Parish Council), both David Brown, Director of Governance and Compliance and the Monitoring Officer and Jamie Hollis, Interim Head of Legal had received complaints made against them that related to Handforth Parish Council and these complaints were not able to be resolved prior to the meeting.  As a consequence of this, both officers were not in a position to give any legal advice to the Committee on this matter.

It was noted that the Committee had been provided with an Independent Legal Advisor, Jonathan Goolden, but officers would remain the room to answer questions of fact if needed.

In the interests of openness and transparency, in respect of item 9) Member Code of Conduct Sub Committee Report (Handforth Parish Council), Councillor David Marren noted he had received email correspondence from and although he had read the information, it did not predetermine his view and he was approaching the meeting with an open mind.

Councillor David Marren declared a pecuniary interest in respect of agenda item 8) Internal Audit Plan 2022/23 as the report mentioned Orbitas and Councillor Marren will be the Chair of this Alternative Service Delivery Vehicle, (ASDV), for the next few weeks.

In the interests of openness and transparency, in respect of agenda item 10) Risk Management Update, Councillor Patrick Redstone declared he was a school governor and schools were referred to as part of the update.  Councillor Redstone declared this interest during agenda item 10.