Agenda

Standards Committee
Tuesday, 21st March, 2023 7.00 pm

Venue: George Meehan House, 294 High Road, Wood Green, N22 8JZ

Contact: Ayshe Simsek, Democratic Services and Scrutiny Manager  2929 Email: ayshe.simsek@haringey.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

1.

FILMING AT MEETINGS

Please note this meeting may be filmed or recorded by the Council for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s internet site or by anyone attending the meeting using any communication method.  Members of the public participating in the meeting (e.g. making deputations, asking questions, making oral protests) should be aware that they are likely to be filmed, recorded or reported on.  By entering the ‘meeting room’, you are consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings.

 

The Chair of the meeting has the discretion to terminate or suspend filming or recording, if in his or her opinion continuation of the filming, recording or reporting would disrupt or prejudice the proceedings, infringe the rights of any individual, or may lead to the breach of a legal obligation by the Council.

2.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

To receive any apologies for absence.

3.

URGENT BUSINESS

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of Urgent Business. (Late items will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items will be dealt with under item 9&13 below).

4.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

 

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

 

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

 

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

5.

MINUTES pdf icon PDF 236 KB

To confirm and sign the minutes of the Standards Committee meeting held on the 24th of January 2023.

6.

Constitutional Changes and Committee Changes 2022/23 2023/24 pdf icon PDF 29 KB

Report to follow

Additional documents:

7.

Members Allowances Scheme for 2023- 2024 pdf icon PDF 193 KB

Additional documents:

9.

NEW ITEMS OF URGENT BUSINESS

As per item 3.

10.

DATES OF FUTURE MEETINGS

To note the dates of future meetings:

 

22nd of June 2023

31 October 2023

30th of Jan 2024

5th of March 2024

11.

EXCLUSION OF THE PRESS AND PUBLIC

Items 12 -13 are likely to be subject to a motion to exclude the press and public from the meeting as they contain exempt information as defined in Section 100a of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended by Section 12A of the Local Government Act 1985); paras 1 & 2; namely, information relating to any individual and information likely to reveal the identity of an individual.

12.

EXEMPT MINUTES

To confirm and sign the exempt minutes of the Standards Committee meeting held on 24th of January 2023.

13.

NEW ITEMS OF EXEMPT URGENT BUSINESS

As per item 3.

16.

COMMITTEE WORK PROGRAMME pdf icon PDF 160 KB

This paper seeks to identify topics that will come to the attention of the Standards Committee and seeks members’ input.