Issue - meetings

[To consider a report on a review of the protocol on Relations between Members.]

Further to Minute 48/08 of the meeting of the Standards Committee held on 11th December 2008, the Committee considered a report which asked whether a recommendation should be made to full Council that the Protocol on Relations between Members be reviewed.

It was noted from the report that the Group Leaders had been consulted on the Protocol and that they generally welcomed the existence of this as it gave a framework within which they could resolve any inter-Member issues in a structured, albeit informal, manner.  Members had confirmed that there were a number of instances when they had relied on the Protocol to resolve issues and had found that it had worked.

RESOLVED:

(a)       that no recommendation be made to full Council that the Protocol on Relations between Members be reviewed; and

(b)       that the Protocol be looked at by the Standards Committee again in twelve months' time.