Agenda item

29 April 2014

In late October 2014 the President of the Republic of Singapore, His Excellency Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam, will pay a State Visit to the United Kingdom as a guest of Her Majesty The Queen.

We recommend that on the occasion of his State Visit to this country, an invitation be extended to His Excellency Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam to honour the City of London Corporation by accepting an Address of Welcome in a suitable box and that he be further asked to accept an invitation to attend a Banquet to be given in his honour in Guildhall on Wednesday, 22nd October 2014: it being referred to a Ward Reception Committee, the members of which will be set out in a separately printed and circulated report, to make the necessary arrangements within approved cost parameters, provision for which has been authorised by the Finance Committee from the relevant City’s Cash budgets and that the Town Clerk be authorised to make changes to the membership of the Committee, in accordance with the rota, if necessary.

(This would be a full Court event).

29 April 2014

In late October 2014 the President of the Republic of Singapore, His Excellency Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam, will pay a State Visit to the United Kingdom as a guest of Her Majesty The Queen.

We recommend that on the occasion of his State Visit to this country, an invitation be extended to His Excellency Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam to honour the City of London Corporation by accepting an Address of Welcome in a suitable box and that he be further asked to accept an invitation to attend a Banquet to be given in his honour in Guildhall on Wednesday, 22nd October 2014. It being referred to a Ward Reception Committee, the members of which will be set out in a separately printed and circulated report, to make the necessary arrangements within approved cost parameters, The provision for which has been authorised by the Finance Committee from the relevant City’s Cash budgets and that the Town Clerk be authorised to make changes to the membership of the Committee, in accordance with the rota, if necessary.

(This would be a full Court event).

Read and agreed to, subject to Delis Regis replacing William Campbell-Taylor on the Ward Reception Committee.