Issue - meetings

[To consider how to conduct the review of the Protocol on Relations between Members.]

The Committee considered a report on how best to conduct a review of the Council's local Protocol on Relations between Members ("the Protocol").

There was felt to be insufficient detail contained in the report for the Committee to decide how best to undertake such a review and it was requested that a further report on this be submitted to the next meeting of the Committee.  In particular, information as to the general types of issues which had arisen between Members and for which the Protocol had recently been relied upon was sought.  The Committee also queried whether the Protocol had been superseded by the new Code of Conduct for Members and it was requested that views on this be sought from both the political Group Leaders and officers and that any feedback be detailed in the report.

RESOLVED that a further report on the review of the Protocol, in the terms outlined in the preamble above, be submitted to the next meeting of the Standards Committee.