Agenda item

Report number DEM040 by the Access and Engagement Portfolio Holder.

                                                                                                (Enclosure)

 

 

DECISION:

 

(1)  Noting and accepting the wish of the Labour Group to relinquish its allocated seat on the Development Control Committee, to approve the following arrangements for the allocation of committee seats to members based on political groups’ aggregate membership as a proportional share of Full Council seats:

 

Committee	Conservative	Independent	Liberal Dem’t	Labour	Total
Development Control	10	4	3		17
Licensing	7	3	1		11
Resources PDG	4	2	1		7
Community PDG	4	2	1		7
Engagement PDG	4	2		1	7
Scrutiny Committee	7	3	1		11
Constitution Cttee	3	1	1		5
Governance & Audit Committee	3	1	1		5
Standards	No political balance required				4

 

 

(2)                                     To endorse the names of the members of the Standards Committee as submitted by the Leaders of the Conservative group and the Independent group:

 

Councillor Lovelock, Councillor Adams, Councillor Moore, and Councillor Mike Williams

 

(3)                                     To approve the following committee memberships:

 

Development Control Committee:

 

Councillor Adams

Councillor Cook

Councillor Exton

Councillor Mrs Gaffigan

Councillor Helyar

Councillor Higgs

Councillor Holmes

Councillor Howard

Councillor Mrs Jalili

Councillor Sam Jalili

Councillor Mrs Kaberry-Brown

Councillor Vic Kerr

 

Councillor Parkin

Councillor Scott

Councillor Judy Smith

Councillor Turner

Councillor Avril Williams

 

Licensing Committee

 

Councillor Mrs Bosworth

Councillor Brough

Councillor Broughton

Councillor Chivers

Councillor Exton

Councillor Howard

Councillor Mrs Radley

Councillor Russell

Councillor Turner

Councillor Wheat

Councillor Mike Williams

 

Scrutiny Committee

 

Councillor Mrs Bosworth

Councillor Hearmon

Councillor Helyar

Councillor Higgs

Councillor Holmes

Councillor Joynson

Councillor Mrs Kaberry-Brown

Councillor Newcombe-Jones

Councillor Mrs Judy Smith

Councillor Andrea Webster

Councillor Mike Williams

 

Resources Policy Development Group

 

Councillor Craft

Councillor Cook

Councillor Mrs Jalili

Councillor Bob Sandall

Councillor Susan Sandall

Councillor Scott

Councillor Stokes

 

 

Engagement Policy Development Group

 

Councillor Exton

Councillor Cook

Councillor Jock Kerr

Councillor McBride

Councillor Russell

Councillor Selby

Councillor Tom Webster

 

Communities Policy Development Group

 

Councillor Bisnauthsing

Councillor Miss Channell

Councillor Nicholson

Councillor Martin-Mayhew

Councillor Stephens

Councillor Thompson

Councillor Wootten

 

Constitution Committee

 

Councillor Joyce Gaffigan

Councillor Martin-Mayhew

Councillor Susan Sandall

Councillor Andrea Webster

Councillor Wootten

 

Governance and Audit Committee

 

Councillor Dawson

Councillor Farrar

Councillor Joynson

Councillor Lovelock

Councillor Moore

 

In presenting report number DEM040 the Access and Engagement Portfolio Holder referred to the amended papers showing political composition and existing committee membership which had been circulated to members.  He moved that the council accepts the political composition and the allocation of seats as indicated on the amended papers.  The motion was seconded.

 

The Leader of the Liberal Democrat group expressed her concern that although the Standards Committee was not required to be politically balanced, two groups on the council were effectively excluded from it.  She considered that this was unfair and proposed an amendment that each group on the council should be represented on the Standards Committee.  The amendment received a seconder.  After several members spoke in support of the amendment a vote was taken but subsequently lost.

 

The debate moved back to the original motion during which the Conservative Unaligned member drew the council’s attention to the paper on political composition which referred to his position as “unaligned”.  He wished it to be recorded that he was still a Conservative Councillor and therefore the minutes should reflect he was Conservative Unaligned.  He also wished the minutes to reflect that before he ceased to be a member of the Conservative group, he had served for 10 out of the 12 months on both the Development Control Committee and the Standards Committee.

 

The Leader of the Independent group sought and received confirmation that as the Conservative group membership had reduced by one member, that group now relinquished one seat on the Resources PDG and the Independent group gained one seat on the Resources PDG.

 

Separate votes were taken on the political composition and allocation of seats, and the memberships to the committees and PDG’s as proposed by the respective Group Leaders.  Both votes were carried.