Agenda and draft minutes

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.

There were no declarations of interest.

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 24 October 2024.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting held on 24 October 2024 be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

Any other items which, pursuant to Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972, the Chair decides are urgent.

There were no urgent items of business.

There were no applications for public speaking.

To consider the responses received during the six-week consultation period on the revised draft Statement of Gambling Policy Principles and make a recommendation to Council that it adopts the amended Statement of Gambling Policy Principles (hereafter referred to as The Statement) under the Gambling Act 2005 (the Act)

Members received a report on the draft Statement of Licensing Policy Principles under Section 349 of the Gambling Act 2005.

It was RESOLVED that the Committee

1                 is informed about the outcome of the consultation as set out in Appendix B of the report

2                 agreed no amendments were needed to be made to the draft Statement of Gambling Principles arising from the consultation

3                 RECOMMENDS to full Council that the Statement be adopted, subject to the above amendments