Agenda item

Report number LDS112 of Portfolio Holder for Governance and Communication.            (Enclosure)

Decision:

That the Council delegates authority to the Electoral Review Working Group to prepare and submit a response to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England’s draft recommendations on Warding arrangements on the Council’s behalf.

15:02: Councillor Jock Kerr entered the meeting

The Portfolio Holder for Corporate Governance and Communication proposed the recommendation in report number LDS112, which was seconded. Attached to the report was a summary of the electoral arrangements proposed by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England for South Kesteven. A schedule of the differences between the Commission’s recommendations and the Council’s proposal was also attached.

Any Councillor who wanted to make comments on the Local Government Boundary Commission for England’s recommendations was asked to refer them to their Group’s representative of the Electoral Review Working Group by Friday 15 November. This would give the group the opportunity to consider all comments and prepare a response for submission before the Commission’s deadline of 6 January 2014. Members were also reminded that they were able to send individual responses to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England’s consultation.

On being put to the vote, the proposition was carried.