Decision details

A motion to exclude the public prior to consideration of agenda item 15 (recommendations from the Shared Services Board) and agenda item 16 (recommendations from the Appointments Committee) was moved by Councillor R. Hollingworth and seconded by Councillor G. N. Denaro on the grounds that agenda item 15 involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 4 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act as amended, being information being information relating to any ongoing or contemplated consultations or negotiations in connection with any labour relations matter between the Council and officers and that agenda item 16 involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act as amended, being information in relation to an individual. Members needed to consider whether the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information by debating the matter in public.

Having been put to the vote it was

RESOLVED that under Section 100 I of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, the public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act, as amended, the relevant paragraph of that part, in each case, being as set out below, and that it is in the public interest to do so:-