Agenda item

Report of the Director of Communications.

Members considered a report of the Director of Communications on attendance of the Policy and Resources Committee at the 2017 Party Conferences.

The Chairman underlined that it was important to use Members with relevant expertise and to also ensure they were conveying corporate messages at party conferences.

It was agreed that the team of Members, who are going to each conference, should meet in the week leading up to Communications and Corporate Affairs teams to coordinate attendance at roundtables and events, strategically.

RESOLVED, that the attendance for future party conferences is:

·         Maintain the approach of previous years, whereby funded attendance was available to all Members of the Public Relations and Economic Development Sub Committee, subject to the Corporate Affairs budget;

·         Other Members of the wider Court with specific experience or relevance may exceptionally be invited to attend party conferences as a representative of the City Corporation, where appropriate, subject to the Corporate Affairs budget;

·         Other Members attending party conferences in a self-funded and separate capacity would be entitled to attend Corporation dinners.