Decision details

Decision Maker: Head of Governance and Legal Services

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

Standards Committee (19/3/18) Minute 26 - that the Monitoring Officer be authorised to submit, in consultation with the members of the Committee, the Council’s formal response to the stakeholder consultation by the Committee on Standards in Public Life on its review of local government ethical standards.

Decision:

To submit a response to the Standards in Public Life Local Government Ethical Standards Consultation following debate at the Standards Committee at its meeting on 19th March 2018.

Alternative options considered:

Option 1 - Not submitting a response to the consultation, was disregarded due to limited opportunities being available to feed into national reviews of the Ethical Framework.

Publication date: 18/05/2018

Date of decision: 17/05/2018

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