Decision - Standards Update

RESOLVED: That the Committee

1 Noted the information provided in the report on member complaints and on standards-related matters. The latter included the approaching end of the tenure of Diane Bushell, who will have served a four year term as one of the Council’s two Independent Persons on 25th March 2019 and whose contribution the Committee was asked to acknowledge.

2. Noted that a recruitment process was currently underway with the aim of recommending to Full Council on 28th March 2019 that it approve the appointment of a new Independent Person to exercise the statutory functions of the role in addition to the ongoing incumbent, Dr David Horne.

3 Would invite an informally constituted cross-party working group of members to review the detailed recommendations of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, with a view to making such recommendations as it considers appropriate to a future meeting of this Committee.