Agenda and minutes

Pension Benefits Sub-Committee - Thursday, 11 April 2013 4.00 pm

Venue: County Hall, New Road, Oxford

Contact: Sue Whitehead  Tel: (01865) 810262; E-Mail:  sue.whitehead@oxfordshire.gov.uk

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To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 14 March 2013 (PB3) and to receive information arising from them.

 

Minutes:

The Minutes of the meeting held on 14 March 2013 were approved and signed.

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Dates of Future Meetings

If the current pattern of meetings is adopted, possible dates of future meetings in 2013 are suggested as follows:

 

13 June; 4 July; 5 September; 31 October and 5 December 2013 all commencing at 4.00pm.

 

The Sub-Committee is RECOMMENDED to determine its future meeting dates for the remainder of the Council year.

 

NOTE: members and officers are asked to bring their diaries to the meeting.

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED: That the following meeting dates be agreed starting at 4.00 pm:

 

13 June; 4 July; 5 September; 31 October and 5 December 2013.

 

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Exempt Items

Minutes:

RESOLVED:               that the public be excluded for the duration of the following items in the Agenda since it was likely that if they were present during this item there would be disclosure of exempt information as defined in part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) and specified below in relation to the item in the agenda and since it was considered that, in all the circumstances of each case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

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Exempt Minutes

To approve the exempt part of the minutes of the meeting held on 14 March 2013 (PB6E) and to receive information arising from them.

 

The public should be excluded during this item because its discussion in public would be likely to lead to the disclosure to members of the public present of information in the following prescribed categories:

1.            Information relating to any individual;

2.         Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual;

3.         Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

 

and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that such disclosure would infringe the rights of the individual to privacy contrary to the general law and the duty of the authority to respect human rights and to comply with that law and contrary to the authority’s duties as a fair employer.

Minutes:

The exempt minutes of the meeting held on 14 March 2013 were approved and signed.

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Applications for Premature Retirement

The Democracy & Organisation Committee, as the Employing Authority, has delegated to this Sub-Committee the determination of benefits for individual applications for early retirement.

 

Reports PB7 set out 7 applications for early retirement.

 

The public should be excluded during this item because its discussion in public would be likely to lead to the disclosure to members of the public present of information in the following prescribed categories:

1.            Information relating to any individual;

2.         Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual;

3.         Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

 

and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that such disclosure would infringe the rights of the individual to privacy contrary to the general law and the duty of the authority to respect human rights and to comply with that law and contrary to the authority’s duties as a fair employer.

 

The Sub-Committee is RECOMMENDED to note the cases for early retirement and to determine the individual benefits to be paid.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The public should be excluded during this item because its discussion in public would be likely to lead to the disclosure to members of the public present of information in the following prescribed categories:

1.                  Information relating to any individual;

2.         Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual;

3.         Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

 

and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that such disclosure would infringe the rights of the individual to privacy contrary to the general law and the duty of the authority to respect human rights and to comply with that law and contrary to the authority’s duties as a fair employer.

 

The Democracy & Organisation Committee, as the Employing Authority, had delegated to this Sub-Committee the determination of benefits for individual applications for early retirement.

 

The Sub-Committee considered a report and addenda which set out 8 such applications. Having considered the 8 applications the Sub-Committee noted the cases for early retirement and determined the individual benefits to be paid.