Issue - meetings
Review of Sub-Committee Memberships
Meeting: 19/05/2010 - Standards Committee (this Committee has now been combined wit the Audit, Standrds and Governance Committee and no longer meets) (Item 8)
8 Composition of Standards Committee 
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[To note the decision of Annual Council on 12th May 2010 regarding an increase in the number of elected Members on the Standards Committee.]
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Minutes:
The Committee was advised that as agreed at the Standards Committee Meeting held on 24th March 2010, a report had been presented to the Annual Meeting of the Council on 12th May 2010 to consider increasing the number of members of the Standards Committee by including an additional elected Member. The Council had resolved that the membership of the Standards Committee be increased from 8 to 9, the additional member being an elected Member; the Committee therefore to comprise:
§ 4 elected Members, being 2 Members of the controlling political group and 2 Members who are not members of the controlling political group;
§ 3 Independent Members
§ 2 Parish Council Representatives
The DMO responded to questions and advised Members that whilst the requirement for political balance under section 15 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 did not apply to Standards Committees and their sub-committees, the same principle for political balance was being followed for the Standards Committee.
RESOLVED that the decision of the Council on the composition of the Standards Committee be noted.