Issue - meetings

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

Any Member with an affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

The Chairman read out the advice from Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) regarding meeting during the election period and noted that regular practice could continue as long as it did not relate to election canvassing or campaigning for a particular candidate or party. 

Martin Gocke, Richard Stok and Peter Floyd declared an affected interest in respect of Item 6 (2020-21 Budget Preparations for the High Needs Block).

Stuart Matthews and Peter Floyd declared an affected interest in respect of Item 7 (2020-21 Budget Preparations for the Schools Block and Central Schools Services Block).

Councillor Barnard advised that he was a governor at Garth Hill College.