Decision details

Further to Minute No. 14 of the meeting of the Standards Committee held on 13 March 2012, the Committee considered the report of the Head of Corporate Legal Services which provided details of the impact of the Localism Act 2011 on the current standards regime.  The report also outlined the possible future arrangements for the administration of Standards in Sefton with effect from 1 July 2012.

RESOLVED: That

(1)       the Council be requested to give approval to the work of the current Standards Committee being merged with that of the Council’s Audit and Governance Committee and that the case-work of the current Standards Sub Committees continue and be overseen by the Audit and Governance Committee, subject to consideration being given to an increase in the number of members on the Committee for the 2012/13 Council Year; and

(2)       resolutions (2) and (3) in Minute 14 of the meeting of the Standards Committee held on 13 March 2012 be endorsed.

(In accordance with Rule 18.4 of the Council and Committee Procedure Rules, Councillors Brennan and Friel requested that their abstentions on the vote taken on resolution (1) be recorded)