Agenda

To invite Councillors to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests and/or Other Disclosable Interests they may have in items on the agenda, and to confirm the nature of those interests.

Members of the public have an opportunity to speak at meetings of the Audit, Governance and Standards Committee. In order to do so members of the public must register by 12 noon two working days in advance of the meeting. A maximum of 15 minutes will be allocated to public speaking.

(Report to follow) The report and associated documents for this item will follow in an additional papers pack at a later date.

Should it be necessary, in the opinion of the Chief Executive, during the course of the meeting to consider excluding the public and press from the meeting on the grounds that either exempt and/or confidential information is likely to be divulged, it may be necessary to move the following resolution:

"That under Section 100 (A) (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following matter(s) on the ground(s) that it/they involve(s) the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the relevant paragraphs (to be specified) of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the said Act”

The paragraphs under Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act are as follows:

Subject to the “public interest” test, information relating to:

·         Para 1 – any individual;

·         Para 2 – the identity of any individual;

·         Para 3 – financial or business affairs;

·         Para 4 – labour relations matters;

·         Para 5 – legal professional privilege;

·         Para 6 – a notice, order or direction;

·         Para 7 – the prevention, investigation or prosecution of crime

which may need to be considered as ‘exempt’.

This item contains exempt and confidential information and might need to be considered in exempt (private) session.

The minutes of the meeting of Audit, Governance and Standards Committee held on 20^th January 2026 will be considered at this meeting.

Please be advised that should Members wish to discuss the content of the exempt minutes record, the Committee will need to consider moving into exempt (private) session.