Issue - meetings

[To note the position in relation to the final reports of the Standards Board for England's Ethical Standards Officer on investigations undertaken following three separate complaints against a District Councillor for alleged breaches of the Bromsgrove District Council Code of Conduct.]

Following referrals from the Standards Assessment Sub-Committee in June and July 2008, the Committee received, for information only, the final reports of the Standards Board for England's Ethical Standards Officer on the outcomes of the investigations into three separate allegations that Councillor Peter McDonald had breached the Bromsgrove District Council Code of Conduct.  It each of the cases the Ethical Standards Officer had made a finding that Councillor McDonald had not failed to comply with the Code.

Copies of the Ethical Standards Officer's final reports, which were both exempt in accordance with Section 100 I of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, as they involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 7A of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act, and confidential in accordance with Section 100 A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, as they included information provided under Section 63 of the Local Government Act as part of an Ethical Standards Officer's investigation under Part III of the Local Government Act 2000, appeared later in the agenda.  Copies of the Standards Board's public case summaries of the Ethical Standards Officer's reports were included in the open part of the agenda.

RESOLVED that the Standards Board for England's Ethical Standards Officer's findings of no breach in relation to the three separate allegations against Councillor McDonald be noted.