Agenda item

Joint report of the Town Clerk and Comptroller & City Solicitor (To Follow).

The Committee considered a joint report of the Town Clerk and Comptroller & City Solicitor outlining the Government’s changes to the Standards regime and proposing future arrangements for a revised Standards Committee.

A Member commented that the City Corporation should not be seeking to gold-plate or over-engineer any new code.

RESOLVED: That, subject to the concurrence of the Policy & Resources Committee and Standards Committee, it be recommended to the Court of Common Council that:-

(i)      the City’s existing code of conduct set out at Appendix 1 be adopted for the time being as the code of conduct to be effective once section 27 of the Localism Act 2011 comes into force;

(ii)      the revised constitution and terms of reference for the Standards Committee set out at Appendix 2 be adopted from the point that section 28 of the Localism Act 2011 comes into force; and

(iii)     three independent persons be appointed from the point that section 28 of the Localism Act 2011 comes into force.