Council and Democracy

Agenda and minutes

Venue: Council Chamber, Town Hall, Rose Hill, Chesterfield S40 1LP

Contact: Martin Elliott 

Items
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36.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 194 KB

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37.

Mayor's Communications.

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38.

Apologies for Absence

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39.

Declarations of Members' and Officers' Interests relating to items on the Agenda.

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40.

Public Questions to the Council

To receive questions from members of the public in accordance with Standing Order No. 12.

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41.

Petitions to Council

To receive petitions submitted under Standing Order No. 13

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42.

Questions to the Leader

To receive questions submitted to the Leader under Standing Order No.14

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43.

Allocation of Seats to Political Groups and Committee Appointments - 2016/17 pdf icon PDF 153 KB

Report to be tabled at the meeting.

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44.

Constitution Updates pdf icon PDF 499 KB

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45.

Treasury Management Report 2015/16 and Monitoring Report 2016/17 pdf icon PDF 270 KB

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46.

Update on the General Fund Capital Programme pdf icon PDF 247 KB

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47.

Minutes of Committee Meetings pdf icon PDF 111 KB

To receive for information the Minutes of the following meetings:-

 

·        Appeals and Regulatory Committee

·        Employment and General Committee

·        Licensing Committee

·        Planning Committee

·        Standards and Audit Committee

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48.

Minutes of the Cabinet pdf icon PDF 180 KB

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49.

Minutes of the Joint Cabinet and Employment and General Committee pdf icon PDF 180 KB

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50.

Minutes of the Overview and Performance Scrutiny Forum pdf icon PDF 217 KB

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51.

Minutes of the Community, Customer and Organisational Scrutiny Committee pdf icon PDF 207 KB

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52.

Minutes of the Enterprise and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee pdf icon PDF 199 KB

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53.

Questions under Standing Order No. 19

To receive questions from Councillors in accordance with Standing Order No.19.

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54.

Notice of Motion under Standing Order No.21

Make fair transitional state pension arrangements for 1950s women

 

“The council calls upon the Government to make fair transitional state pension arrangements for all women born on or after 6th April 1951, who have unfairly borne the burden of the increase to the State Pension Age (SPA) with lack of appropriate notification.

 

Hundreds of thousands of women had significant pension changes imposed on them by the Pensions Acts of 1995 and 2011 with little or no personal notification of the changes. Some women had only two years notice of a six year increase to their state pension age.

Many women born in the 1950s are living in hardship. Retirement plans have been shattered with devastating consequences. Many of these women are already out of the labour market, caring for elderly relatives, providing childcare for grandchildren, or suffer discrimination in the workplace so struggle to find employment. Women born in this decade are suffering financially. These women have worked hard, raised families and paid their tax and national insurance with the expectation that they would be financially secure when reaching 60. It is not the pension age itself that is in dispute – it is widely accepted that women and men should retire at the same time. The issue is that the rise in the women’s state pension age has been too rapid and has happened without sufficient notice being given to the women affected, leaving women with no time to make alternative arrangements.

 

The council calls upon the Government to reconsider transitional arrangements for women born on or after 6thApril 1951, so that women do not live in hardship due to pension changes they were not told about until it was too late to make alternative arrangements.”

 

(Councillor Tricia Gilby)

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