Issue - meetings

To consider a report on the current position regarding Standards for England (SfE) and the implications for the Standards Committee.

The Committee considered a report on the current position regarding Standards for England and the implications for the Standards Committee.

Following the Parliamentary Election and the formation of the Coalition Government, it had been announced that the standards board regime, and as part of this, Standards for England, was to be abolished. The draft Bill “Decentralisation and Localism”, which was expected to enact the abolition, had not yet been published. The date for abolition was unknown, but was expected to be later in the year or early in 2011.

During discussion of the implications for the Standards Committee, the Chairman suggested that the “Issues and Improvements Working Group” meet on Tuesday, 2 November at 2 pm to prepare a discussion paper for consideration at the November meeting of the Committee.

RESOLVED:

That

1.                  the report be noted; and

2.                  arrangements be made for a meeting of the “Issues and Improvements Working Group” on Tuesday, 2^nd November 2010.