Councillor Derbyshire noted that she was a volunteer under the project referred to in Minute 49 but had not begun until after the matter referred to and had no role with, or knowledge of, management of the project.

Councillors Hollingworth and Tidd confirmed that they had no interests to declare.

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Bean, Caulfield and A Diouf.

*RESOLVED –

That under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act.

The Monitoring Officer advised the committee that the investigating officer was unable to attend due to ill health and that one of the witnesses, appearing on behalf of the councillor complained about, had very limited availability that day. He therefore recommended that the meeting be adjourned to a later date.

*RESOLVED –

That consideration of the complaint be deferred to a future meeting of the committee at a date to be confirmed.