Agenda item

The Sub Committee returned to public session at 5.08pm and Ms Pearson, Mr Harrower and the member of the public returned to the committee room.

The Chairman then advised all present that the Sub Committee had considered and taken account of all relevant matters in determining the appeal, and that its decision was that Ms Pearson had breached paragraph 13 of the Code of Conduct for Members by participating and voting on a matter in which she had a disclosable pecuniary interest at the Planning and Transportation Committee on 29 January 2018 without a dispensation to do so, but that no sanction should be imposed for that breach. The Chairman confirmed that Ms Pearson’s appeal from the decision of the Hearing Sub (Standards) Committee set out in its letter of 29 May 2018, in which it decided that the Code had been breached, was therefore not allowed, but the appeal from its decision on sanction set out in its letter of 26 June 2018, in which it imposed the sanction of censure, was allowed.

The Chairman explained that written reasons for the Sub Committee’s decision would follow in due course.