Agenda item

To note the outstanding actions in respect of the General Purposes Committee of Aldermen’s work programme.

The Committee considered the Outstanding Actions List which had been updated since the last meeting on 30 March 2022.

The Chairman noted that many of the items listed were concerned with what the Court of Aldermen did, how these things were done and the training required around them. He reminded the Committee that, at its last meeting, it had agreed to extend the age at which Aldermen retire by convention to age 75. This had been agreed on the basis that a Working Party would be established to look at the terms of office and tenure of Aldermen going forward. At the same time, it was recognised that there were also other workstreams progressing in the form of the Future of the Mayoralty Working Party who had submitted a report for consideration in non-public session today and a forthcoming Strategy Morning in September. The Chairman therefore questioned whether these matters might be better dealt with as a single workstream under the purview of the Future of the Mayoralty Working Party so that it might also consider matters pertaining to Aldermanic tenure/terms of office. The Committee were in favour of this proposal and suggested that matters now be progressed on this basis.

RESOLVED: - That –

(i)      the Non-Public Outstanding Actions List be noted; and

(ii)     that completed items be removed from the list.