Issue - meetings

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

The Mayor advised Members that they did not need to declare an interest as a Council Tax payer, or as a member of a town or parish council, on the item of business relating to the Council Taxbase, as there was a dispensation in place which removed this requirement.

During consideration of Item 10 – Recommendation from Corporate Policy Committee: Cheshire East Council support for Proposed Future Rail Scheme, Councillor S Gardiner declared that in previous employment he had attended meetings relating to the Manchester to Liverpool railway proposals.