Agenda item

(Mark John Boleat)

26 March 2015

Amendment to Standing Orders

The Court is asked to approve an amendment to Standing Orders which was discussed at the of your Policy and Resources Committee on 26 March 2015. The amendment will enable a question to be asked at a meeting of the Common Council, for which notice has been given in accordance with Standing Orders, even if the Member asking it is unavoidably absent from the meeting.

We therefore recommended that the City of London Corporation’s Standing Orders are amended by adding the following to the end of Standing Order No.13 (3):

“Questions will normally only be answered if the Member giving notice is present to put their question in person. In exceptional circumstances, the Lord Mayor may direct that the Town Clerk puts the question on behalf of a Member who is unavoidably absent and where he considers it would be in the interests of the Corporation that the Court hear the Chairman’s answer.”

(Mark John Boleat)

26 March 2015

Amendment to Standing Orders

The Court is asked to approve an amendment to Standing Orders which was discussed at the meeting of your Policy and Resources Committee on 26 March 2015. The amendment will enable a question to be asked at a meeting of the Common Council, for which notice has been given in accordance with Standing Orders, even if the Member asking it is unavoidably absent from the meeting.

We therefore recommend that the City of London Corporation’s Standing Orders are amended by adding the following to the end of Standing Order No.13 (3):

“Questions will normally only be answered if the Member giving notice is present to put their question in person. In exceptional circumstances, the Lord Mayor may direct that the Town Clerk puts the question on behalf of a Member who is unavoidably absent and where he considers it would be in the interests of the Corporation that the Court hear the Chairman’s answer.”

Read and agreed.