Agenda and minutes

Pension Benefits Sub-Committee - Thursday, 16 January 2014 3.00 pm

Venue: County Hall, New Road, Oxford

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

Items
No. Item

21/13

Election of Chairman

Minutes:

It was proposed, seconded and was:

 

RESOLVED: that Councillor Gill Sanders be elected as Chairman for the duration of the meeting.

22/13

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To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 8 August 2013 (PB4) and to receive information arising from them.

 

Minutes:

The Minutes of the meeting held on 8 August 2013 were approved and signed as a correct record.

 

EXEMPT ITEMS

 

It was RESOLVED that the public should be excluded for the duration of items PB6 and PB7 in the Agenda since it was likely that if they were present during these items 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 items 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.

 

PUBLIC SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS FOLLOWING THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE PRESS AND PUBLIC

 

23/13

Exempt Minutes

To approve the exempt part of the minutes of the meeting held on 8 August 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 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 Exempt Minutes of the meeting held on 8 August 2013 were approved and signed as a correct record.

24/13

Applications for Premature Retirement

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

 

Reports PB7(a)-(b) set out two applications for early retirement in total.

 

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 Renumeration 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 the reports PB7E (a) – (b) which set out two applications for early retirement in total and determinedthe individual benefits to be paid as set out in Annexes 1 – 2 to the report PB7E.