Agenda and minutes

The Committee are asked to elect a Chairman for the meeting.

RESOLVED: that Councillor Richard Langridge be elected as Chairman  for the duration of the meeting.

The Minutes of the meeting held on 27 March 2014 were approved and signed as a correct record.

It was RESOLVED:that the public 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.

The Exempt Minutes of the meeting held on 27 March 2014 were approved and signed as a correct record.

The public were excluded during this item because its discussion in public as 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 was considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed 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, has delegated to this Sub-Committee the determination of benefits for individual applications for early retirement.

Reports PB7(a)-       set out                 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.

The Remuneration 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 one application for early retirement in total and determined the individual benefits to be paid as set out in Annex 1 to the report PB7E.

The public were excluded during this item because its discussion in public was 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 was considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed 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.