Agenda and minutes

Resolved: that Councillor Cole be elected Chairman for the meeting.

Councillor Cole in the Chair

A Member must declare any disclosable pecuniary interest where it relates to any matter being considered at the meeting. A declaration of a disclosable pecuniary interest should indicate the interest and the agenda item to which it relates. A Member is not permitted to participate in this agenda item by law and should immediately leave the meeting before the start of any debate.

If the Member leaves the Chamber in respect of a declaration, he or she should ensure that the Chairman is aware of this before he or she leaves to enable their exit from the meeting to be recorded in the minutes in accordance with Standing Order 37.

None.

Resolved: that the hearing procedure be adopted.

Exclusion of the press and public

The Sub-Committee will be invited to pass the following resolutions:

“(1)      That the press, public, and officers not required by the Members, the Chief Executive or the Director, to remain during the exempt session, be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business on the ground that its consideration will involve the disclosure of exempt information as defined in Section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972, by virtue of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act”

Also, if appropriate, the following resolution should be passed –

“(2)       That members of the Council who are not members of this Sub-Committee be invited to remain.”

The Sub-Committee was invited to pass the following resolutions:

“(1)      That the press, public, and officers not required by the Members, the Chief Executive or the Director, to remain during the exempt session, be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business on the ground that its consideration will involve the disclosure of exempt information as defined in Section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972, by virtue of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act”

Also, if appropriate, the following resolution should be passed –

“(2)      That members of the Council who are not members of this Sub-Committee be invited to remain.”

Resolved: that the resolutions be passed.

Report of the Director of Public Health

Geoff Booker reported for the Director of Public Health on the Application for a Private Hire Driver’s Licence, and then responded to questions from the Sub-Committee.  The applicant then addressed the Sub-Committee and then responded to questions.

Resolved:

(1) that the Sub-Committee decided that the applicant was a safe and suitable person to hold a Private Hire Driver’s Licence (PHDL)

(2) that the Sub-Committee decided that any further breach by the applicant of their PHDL Licence, or the commission of any offence, would mean that the PHDL licence would be reviewed before another Sub-Committee.