Declarations of Interest and Whipping Arrangements
To invite Councillors to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or Other Disclosable Interests they may have in items on the agenda, and to confirm the nature of those interests.
Minutes:
Councillor B. T. Cooper explained that he wanted to clarify his interests, as reported in his Disclosable Pecuniary Interest (DPI) form, as it related to his appointment as the Council’s representative on the Worcestershire Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee (HOSC). He explained that he believed it was appropriate to provide further information on this subject following a named vote at a meeting of the Audit, Standards and Governance Committee in July 2015 in relation to his request for a dispensation to take part in debates and decisions regarding health issues at meetings of HOSC.
Councillor Cooper advised that he was a qualified doctor with a ‘zero hours’ consultant contract with the NHS. He also has an NHS pension. He has a private medico-legal practice, writing reports about legal claims for NHS Trusts in the South East of England. All of Councillor Cooper’s interests had been fully declared in his DPI form for Bromsgrove District Council and these declarations had similarly been submitted to and approved by Worcestershire County Council.