Issue - meetings

Constitution Amendment - Members' Questions to full Council

 

 

Meeting: 14/12/2022 - Audit and Governance Committee (Item 36)

36 Request by Councillor Sir Ron Watson for an Amendment to the Constitution - Members' Questions to full Council pdf icon PDF 287 KB

Report of the Executive Director of Corporate Resources and Customer Services

Minutes:

The Committee considered the report of the Executive Director of Corporate Resources and Customer Services requested by Councillor Sir Ron Watson in accordance with Rules 115 and 116 of Chapter 4 of the Constitution.

 

The report provided details of a request by Councillor Sir Ron Watson for the Constitution to be amended in respect of Members’ questions to full Council as set out in paragraph 2.1 to the report.

 

Councillor Sir Ron Watson addressed the Committee, indicating that he was requesting for the Constitution to amended so that on occasions when the Deputy Leader was officiating at Council meetings when the Leader of the Council was unable to attend, the Deputy Leader would answer questions raised at the meeting, thereby enabling a supplementary question to be asked; rather than the current practice whereby questions were referred for written response following the Council meeting therefore precluding the opportunity for a supplementary question to be asked.

 

Following lengthy debate, it was

 

RESOLVED:  That

 

(1)

an amendment to the Constitution in respect of Members’ questions to full Council be not approved; and

 

(2)

in accordance with Rule 96 of the Council and Committee Procedure Rules of the Constitution, it be noted that Councillor Sir Ron Watson voted against the resolution set out in (1) above.