Agenda item

Appointment of Committees

Meeting of Court of Common Council, Thursday, 25th April, 2019 1.00 pm (Item 13.)

To appoint the Committees until the first meeting of the Court in April 2020 and to agree the terms of reference and constitution for each Committee.

(A list of the proposed appointments, terms of reference including proposed amendments, and constitutions has been separately circulated).

(Unless otherwise stated the requirement for certain Committees to have a Member with fewer than five or ten years’ service on the Court, at the time of their appointment, is fulfilled by the existing membership).

(Supporting statements in respect of the contested vacancies outlined below are set out immediately following the White Paper, at pages 85 to 96).

Nominations received for vacancies of varying terms:-

Where appropriate:-

* denotes a Member standing for re-appointment;

# denotes a Member with fewer than five years’ service on the Court;

^ denotes a Member who currently serves on the Committee in either an ex-officio capacity or as a representative of another Committee with appointment rights.

To consider the following appointments:

(A) Policy and Resources Committee (five vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

David John Bradshaw, Deputy

*Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

Karina Dostalova

Kevin Malcolm Everett, Deputy

Anne Helen Fairweather

Shravan Jashvantrai Joshi

Angus Knowles-Cutler

*Charles Edward Lord, O.B.E., J.P., Deputy

Wendy Mead, O.B.E.

Ruby Sayed

James Michael Douglas Thomson, Deputy

*John Tomlinson, Deputy

James Richard Tumbridge

(B) Hospitality Working Party of the Policy and Resources Committee (one vacancy).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*Karina Dostalova

Jeremy Lewis Simons

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Jeremy Lewis Simons

(D) Capital Buildings Committee (one vacancy).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Ian David Luder, J.P., Alderman

(E) Investment Committee (four vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

^Christopher Paul Boden

*Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

^Alison Jane Gowman, Alderman

^Michael Hudson

Robert Charles Hughes-Penney, Alderman

*James de Sausmarez

*Philip John Woodhouse, Deputy

(F) Social Investment Board (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

^Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

Bronek Masojada, Alderman

^Andrien Gereith Dominic Meyers

(G) Audit and Risk Management Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Alexander Robertson Martin Barr

*Andrien Gereith Dominic Meyers

(H) Police Authority Board (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*Douglas Barrow

Kevin Malcolm Everett, Deputy

*James Henry George Pollard, Deputy

*James Michael Douglas Thomson, Deputy

(I) Board of Governors of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (four vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

George Christopher Abrahams

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

*Jeremy Paul Mayhew

(J) Gresham (City Side) Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Simon D’Olier Duckworth, O.B.E., D.L.

*Dr Giles Robert Evelyn Shilson, Deputy

(K) Establishment Committee (six vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Randall Keith Anderson

*Richard David Regan, O.B.E., Deputy

*Elizabeth Rogula, Deputy

*Ruby Sayed

*Philip John Woodhouse, Deputy

(L) Open Spaces, City Gardens and West Ham Park Committees (two vacancies on each Committee).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Caroline Wilma Haines

*Wendy Mead, O.B.E.

(M) Epping Forest & Commons Committee (one vacancy).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Philip John Woodhouse, Deputy

(N) Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood & Queen’s Park Committee(three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*John Tomlinson, Deputy

*Prem Goyal, O.B.E., J.P., Alderman

*Gregory Percy Jones, Q.C., Alderman

(O) Freedom Applications Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

#Tijs Broeke

#Dominic Christian

(P) Barbican Residential Committee,in the category of non-resident (five vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Jeremy Paul Mayhew

(Q) Barbican Centre Board (two vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

George Christopher Abrahams

Kevin Malcolm Everett, Deputy

Ann Holmes

*Vivienne Littlechild, M.B.E., J.P.

William Anthony Bowater Russell, Alderman

(R) The City Bridge Trust Committee (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Karina Dostalova

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

*Jeremy Paul Mayhew

(S) Standards Committee (eight vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Randall Keith Anderson

*Christopher Paul Boden

Mark Bostock

Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

Mary Durcan

*Kevin Malcolm Everett, Deputy

*Michael Hudson

*Jamie Ingham Clark, Deputy

Vivienne Littlechild, M.B.E., J.P.

Natasha Maria Cabrera Lloyd-Owen

*Oliver Arthur Wynlayne Lodge

*Charles Edward Lord, O.B.E., J.P., Deputy

Andrew Paul Mayer

Barbara Patricia Newman, C.B.E.

William Pimlott

*Jeremy Lewis Simons

(T) Standards Appeals Committee (ten vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Keith David Forbes Bottomley, Deputy

*John Douglas Chapman

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

David Andrew Graves, Alderman

Timothy Russell Hailes, J.P., Alderman

*John Petrie

John George Stewart Scott, J.P.

(U) Licensing Committee (four vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Kevin Malcolm Everett, Deputy

*Sophie Anne Fernandes

*James Richard Tumbridge

(V) Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Charles Edward Lord, O.B.E., J.P., Deputy

(W) Livery Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

*Christopher Michael Hayward

Shravan Jashvantrai Joshi

Dhruv Patel, O.B.E.

*Judith Lindsay Pleasance

James Henry George Pollard, Deputy

John George Stewart Scott, J.P.

Minutes:

The Court proceeded to make the annual appointment of Committees. Members received an addendum to the report, highlighting those amendments required to the White Paper since its publication with the agenda.

The Chairman of the Markets Committee, James Tumbridge, spoke to express his concern in respect of the proposed amendment to the Markets Committee’s terms of reference, where the Policy and Resources Committee was recommending the deletion of the words “provision and” under section 4, sub-section (b). He suggested that the proposed deletion would remove the Markets Committee’s direct engagement with the Markets Consolidation Programme and argued that the change was unnecessary in ensuring that the Policy and Resources Committee retained primacy in respect of decision-making on this matter.

Amendment – That the proposed deletion of the words “provision and” from the terms of reference of the Markets Committee be omitted and that the terms of reference remain, therefore, unchanged from the previous year.

Michael Hudson spoke in support of James Tumbridge’s proposed amendment, suggesting that the change as proposed in the White Paper would have the unintended consequence of removing responsibility for the provision of the existing markets from the Markets Committee. Whilst accepting that an amendment of some sort to the terms of reference was likely required, he argued that time should be taken to consider drafting and revised ones put forward next year.

Members proceeded to debate the proposed amendment, with a number of Members speaking in support and a number speaking in opposition.

The Deputy Chairman of Policy and Resources clarified the genesis of the proposed change, which had emerged from some concerns expressed in relation to a lack of clarity on the role of the Markets Committee in respect of the Markets Consolidation Programme. He observed that the proposed amendment was to delete two words which had been inserted only last year and which had been unhelpful in causing some confusion to officers in terms of reporting lines for this consolidation programme; this had then led to the Markets Committee being asked to make decisions on matters outside its remit. Given the strategic significance of the programme, involving a wide range of complexities, it would be of the utmost importance to ensure clear and direct lines of accountability and oversight. He reiterated that this was simply a minor amendment representing a reversion to the previous long-standing terms of reference, intended solely to provide clarity, which should not be misconstrued as anything further.

Closing the debate, the Chairman of the Markets Committee suggested that the intent behind the insertion of the words in question the previous year had been to provide the very clarity being sought here. He advised that he remained unsighted and unconvinced as to what the suggested confusion or concerns were, suggesting that the problems outlined could be resolved through greater communication, rather than a change to the terms of reference.

Upon the Amendment being put, the Lord Mayor declared it to be carried. Upon a second show of hands, the Lord Mayor declared the Amendment to be lost. It was agreed that a Division, for the purposes of clarification, would be beneficial.

A division, therefore, being demanded and granted, there appeared:-

For the Affirmative 31

ALDERMEN

Anstee, N.J.

Lyons, N.S.L.

Masojada, B.

COMMONERS

Bell, M.

Bennett, J.A., Deputy

Bennett, P.G.

Bostock, M.

Chapman, J.D.

Crossan, R.P.

Durcan, J.M.

Fernandes, S.A.

Harrower, G.G.

Hudson, M.

Hyde, W.M., Deputy

James, C., Deputy

Knowles-Cutler, A.

Littlechild, V., M.B.E., J.P.

Lloyd-Owen, N.M.C.

Mayer, A.P.

Merrett, R.A., Deputy

Pearson, S.J.

Priest, H.J.S.

Quilter, S.D.

de Sausmarez, H.J.

Seaton, I.C.N.

Simons, J.L.

Thomson, J.M.D., Deputy

Tumbridge, J.R.

Wheatley, M.R.P.H.D.

Tellers for the affirmative – (Affirmative) John Petrie and Deputy Jamie Ingham Clark (Negative).

For the Negative 71

ALDERMEN

Edhem, E.

Garbutt, J.

Gifford, Sir Roger

Gowman, A.J.

Goyal, P.G., O.B.E., J.P.

Graves, D.A.

Hailes, T.R., J.P.

Howard, R.P.S.

Hughes-Penney, R.C.

Jones, G.P., Q.C.

Keaveny, V.T., Sheriff

King, A.J.N.

Langley, S., O.B.E.

Luder, I.D., J.P.

Parmley, Sir Andrew

Russell, W.A.B.

Wootton, Sir David

Yarrow, Sir Alan

COMMONERS

Abrahams, G.C.

Absalom, J.D., Deputy

Addy, C.K.

Ali, M.

Ameer, R.B.

Anderson, R.K.

Anderson, T.A.

Barr, A.R.M.

Barrow, D.

Bensted-Smith, N.M., J.P.

Bottomley, K.D.F., Deputy

Bradshaw, D.J.

Broeke, T.

Cassidy, M.J., C.B.E., Deputy

Chadwick, R.A.H., O.B.E., Deputy

Christian, D.G.

Colthurst, H.N.A.

Dostalova, K.

Duckworth, S.D., O.B.E., D.L.

Dunphy, P.G.

Fairweather, A.H.

Fletcher, J.W.

Fredericks, M.B.

Haines, the Revd. S.D., Deputy

Hoffman, T., M.B.E., Deputy

Holmes, A.

Joshi, S.J.

Lawrence, G.A.

Levene, T.

Lord, C.E., O.B.E., J.P., Deputy

Martinelli, P.N.

McMurtrie, A.S., J.P.

Mead, W., O.B.E.

Mooney, B.D.F., Deputy

Moss, A.M., Deputy

Moys, S.D.

Nash, J.C., O.B.E., Deputy

Newman, B.P., C.B.E.

Packham, G.D.

Patel, D., O.B.E.

Pleasance, J.L.

Regan, R.D., O.B.E., Deputy

Sayed, R.

Sells, O., Q.C.

Shilson, Dr. G.R.E., Deputy

Sleigh, T., Deputy

Smith, G.M.

Snyder, Sir Michael

Tomlinson, J., Deputy

Upton, W., Q.C.

Woodhouse, P.J., Deputy

Tellers for the negative – John Scott (Negative) and Deputy Elizabeth Rogula (Affirmative).

Upon the result of the division being announced, the Lord Mayor declared the Amendment to be lost.

Resolved – That the several Committees as set out in the White Paper be appointed until the first meeting of the Court in April 2019, and that the terms of reference and constitutions be also approved, subject to the circulated amendments.

The Court subsequently proceeded to make the following appointments, in respect of which the Town Clerk reported that the following nominations had been received:-

Nominations received for vacancies of varying terms:-

Where appropriate:-

* denotes a Member standing for re-appointment;

# denotes a Member with fewer than five years’ service on the Court;

^ denotes a Member who currently serves on the Committee in either an ex-officio capacity or as a representative of another Committee with appointment rights.

(A) Policy and Resources Committee (five vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

David John Bradshaw, Deputy

*Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

Karina Dostalova

Kevin Malcolm Everett, Deputy

Anne Helen Fairweather

Shravan Jashvantrai Joshi

Angus Knowles-Cutler

*Charles Edward Lord, O.B.E., J.P., Deputy

Wendy Mead, O.B.E.

Ruby Sayed

James Michael Douglas Thomson, Deputy

*John Tomlinson, Deputy

James Richard Tumbridge

Read.

(B) Hospitality Working Party of the Policy and Resources Committee (one vacancy).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*Karina Dostalova

Jeremy Lewis Simons

Read.

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Jeremy Lewis Simons

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Jeremy Simons to be appointed to the Outside Bodies Sub-Committee.

(D) Capital Buildings Committee (one vacancy).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Ian David Luder, J.P., Alderman

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Alderman Ian Luder to be appointed to the Capital Buildings Committee.

(E) Investment Committee (four vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

^Christopher Paul Boden

*Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

^Alison Jane Gowman, Alderman

^Michael Hudson

Robert Charles Hughes-Penney, Alderman

*James de Sausmarez

*Philip John Woodhouse, Deputy

Read.

(F) Social Investment Board (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

^Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

Bronek Masojada, Alderman

^Andrien Gereith Dominic Meyers

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Henry Colthurst, Alderman Bronek Masojada and Andrien Meyers to be appointed to the Social Investment Board.

(G) Audit and Risk Management Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Alexander Robertson Martin Barr

*Andrien Gereith Dominic Meyers

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Alexander Barr and Andrien Meyers to be appointed to the Audit and Risk Management Committee.

(H) Police Authority Board (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*Douglas Barrow

Kevin Malcolm Everett, Deputy

*James Henry George Pollard, Deputy

*James Michael Douglas Thomson, Deputy

Read.

(I) Board of Governors of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (four vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

George Christopher Abrahams

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

*Jeremy Paul Mayhew

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared George Abrahams, Marianne Fredericks and Jeremy Mayhew to be appointed to the Board of Governors of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

(J) Gresham (City Side) Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Simon D’Olier Duckworth, O.B.E., D.L.

*Dr Giles Robert Evelyn Shilson, Deputy

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Simon Duckworth and Deputy Giles Shilson to be appointed to the Gresham (City Side) Committee.

(K) Establishment Committee (six vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Randall Keith Anderson

*Richard David Regan, O.B.E., Deputy

*Elizabeth Rogula, Deputy

*Ruby Sayed

*Philip John Woodhouse, Deputy

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Randall Anderson, Deputy Richard Regan, Deputy Elizabeth Rogula, Ruby Sayed and Deputy Philip Woodhouse to be appointed to the Establishment Committee.

(L) Open Spaces, City Gardens and West Ham Park Committees (two vacancies on each Committee).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Caroline Wilma Haines

*Wendy Mead, O.B.E.

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Caroline Haines and Wendy Mead to be appointed to the Open Spaces & City Gardens and West Ham Park Committees.

(M) Epping Forest & Commons Committee (one vacancy).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Philip John Woodhouse, Deputy

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Deputy Philip Woodhouse to be appointed to the Epping Forest & Commons Committee.

(N) Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood & Queen’s Park Committee(three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Prem Goyal, O.B.E., J.P., Alderman

*Gregory Percy Jones, Q.C., Alderman

*John Tomlinson, Deputy

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Alderman Prem Goyal, Alderman Gregory Jones and Deputy John Tomlinson to be appointed to the Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood & Queen’s Park Committee.

(O) Freedom Applications Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

#Tijs Broeke

#Dominic Christian

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Tijs Broeke and Dominic Christian to be appointed to the Freedom Applications Committee.

(P) Barbican Residential Committee,in the category of non-resident (five vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Jeremy Paul Mayhew

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Jeremy Mayhew to be appointed to the Barbican Residential Committee.

(Q) Barbican Centre Board (two vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

George Christopher Abrahams

Kevin Malcolm Everett, Deputy

Ann Holmes

*Vivienne Littlechild, M.B.E., J.P.

William Anthony Bowater Russell, Alderman

Read.

(R) The City Bridge Trust Committee (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Karina Dostalova

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

*Jeremy Paul Mayhew

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Karina Dostalova, Marianne Fredericks and Jeremy Mayhew to be appointed to The City Bridge Trust Committee.

(S) Standards Committee (eight vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Randall Keith Anderson

*Christopher Paul Boden

Mark Bostock

Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

Mary Durcan

*Kevin Malcolm Everett, Deputy

*Michael Hudson

*Jamie Ingham Clark, Deputy

Vivienne Littlechild, M.B.E., J.P.

Natasha Maria Cabrera Lloyd-Owen

*Oliver Arthur Wynlayne Lodge

*Charles Edward Lord, O.B.E., J.P., Deputy

Andrew Paul Mayer

Barbara Patricia Newman, C.B.E.

William Pimlott

*Jeremy Lewis Simons

Read.

(T) Standards Appeals Committee (ten vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Keith David Forbes Bottomley, Deputy

*John Douglas Chapman

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

David Andrew Graves, Alderman

Timothy Russell Hailes, J.P., Alderman

*John Petrie

John George Stewart Scott, J.P.

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Deputy Keith Bottomley, John Chapman, Marianne Fredericks, Alderman David Graves, Alderman Tim Hailes, John Petrie, and John Scott to be appointed to the Standards Appeals Committee.

(U) Licensing Committee (four vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Kevin Malcolm Everett, Deputy

*Sophie Anne Fernandes

*James Richard Tumbridge

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Deputy Kevin Everett, Sophie Fernandes, and James Tumbridge to be appointed to the Licensing Committee.

(V) Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Charles Edward Lord, O.B.E., J.P., Deputy

Read.

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Deputy Edward Lord to be appointed to the Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee.

(W) Livery Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

*Christopher Michael Hayward

Shravan Jashvantrai Joshi

Dhruv Patel, O.B.E.

*Judith Lindsay Pleasance

James Henry George Pollard, Deputy

John George Stewart Scott, J.P.

Read.

The Court proceeded, in accordance with Standing Order No.10, to ballot on each of the foregoing contested vacancies.

The Lord Mayor appointed the Chief Commoner and the Chairman of the Finance Committee, or their representatives, to be the scrutineers of the ballots.

Resolved – That the votes be counted at the conclusion of the Court and the results printed in the Summons for the next meeting.

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