Agenda and draft minutes

Standards Sub-committee - Tuesday, 11th March, 2025 4.00 pm

Venue: 0.09 Civic Meeting Room - Quadrant, The Silverlink North, Cobalt Business Park, North Tyneside, NE27 0BY. View directions

Contact: Yvonne Harrison 

Items
No. Item

SS5/25

Appointment of Substitute Members

To be notified of the appointment of any Substitute Members.

Minutes:

Pursuant to the Council’s Constitution the appointment of the following substitute member was made:

 

Councillor L Bones (for Councillor L Bartoli).

 

SS6/25

Declarations of Interest and Dispensations Granted

You are invited to declare any registerable and/or non-registerable interests in matters appearing on the agenda, and the nature of that interest.

 

Please complete the Declarations of Interests card available at the meeting and return it to the Democratic Services Officer before leaving the meeting.

 

You are also invited to disclose any dispensation from the requirement to declare any registerable and/or non-registerable interests that have been granted to you in respect of any matters appearing on the agenda.

 

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest or dispensations reported

SS7/25

Exclusion Resolution

The Standards Sub-committee is requested to consider passing the following exclusion resolution:

 

“That under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) and having applied a public interest test as defined in Part 2 of Schedule 12A of the Act, the press and 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 Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.”

 

 

Minutes:

Resolved that “under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) and having applied a public interest test as defined in Part 2 of Schedule 12A of the Act, the press and 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 Paragraphs 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.”

 

SS8/25

Complaint NT07/2023-24

To consider the Investigating Officer’s report into complaint NT07/2023-24 to enable the Sub-Committee to determine the action to be taken with respect to the complaint.

Minutes:

 

 

The Sub-committee received a report which introduced the Independent Investigator’s report in relation to Complaint NT07/2023-2024 attached at Appendix 1.

 

In accordance with the Authority’s Local Arrangements for dealing with complaints made against Members and Co-opted Members under the Code of Conduct, complaint NT07/2023-2024 had been referred for investigation. The Authority’s local arrangements was attached to the report at Appendix 2.

 

The Independent Investigator had assessed the complaint against the following three elements of the Code of Conduct:

 

1.     General Conduct - failing to treat others with respect.

2.    General Conduct - damaging the reputation of their office.

3.    General conduct - using their position improperly, to their advantage or 

       someone else’s advantage or disadvantage.

 

The Independent Investigator had concluded that there had not been a breach of the code in relation to these three sections of the Code.

 

The Independent Person was invited to comment on the findings of the Independent Investigator’s report who said she had no further comments in relation to the Investigator’s conclusions.

 

Resolved that the Standards Sub-committee accept the findings of the Independent Investigator that no breach of the Code of Conduct for Members and Co-opted Members had occurred; and instruct the Monitoring Officer to write to the Subject Member and to the Complainant, notifying both that the

sub-committee was satisfied that no further action was required and provide both with a copy of the Independent Investigator’s final report.