Decision details
Approval of Standards Committee Annual Report 2020/2021
Decision Maker: Chief Executive Officer
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
Having considered the report to the informal
meeting of Standards Committee Members held on 17 September 2021,
and the views of the Committee Members and the Independent Person
for Standards, and all relevant information, the Chief Executive
Officer agreed that the Annual Report of the Standards Committee
for 2020/2021 be approved for presentation to a future meeting of
the Authority.
By whom: Richard Flinton, Chief Executive Officer, under his
emergency delegated powers and after consultation with the Members
of the Standards Committee and the Independent Person for
Standards
PLEASE NOTE that as a non-executive function, this decision is not
open to call in.
Reasons for the decision:
Under his delegated decision making powers in
the Officers’ Delegation Scheme in the Council’s
Constitution, the Chief Executive Officer has power, in cases of
emergency, to take any decision which could be taken by the
Council, the Executive or a committee.
Following on from the expiry of the Local Authorities and Police
and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and
Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations
2020 (“the 2020 Regulations”), which allowed for
committee meetings to be held remotely, the County Council resolved
at its meeting on 5 May 2021 that, for the present time, in light
of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic circumstances, remote
live-broadcast committee meetings should continue, as informal
meetings of the committee Members, with any formal decisions
required being taken by the Chief Executive Officer under his
emergency decision making powers and after consultation with other
Officers and Members as appropriate and after taking into account
any views of the relevant Committee Members and all relevant
information. This approach is being kept under review and will be
reviewed again by full Council at its November 2021 meeting.
The Chief Executive Officer has taken all relevant information into
account in exercising his emergency delegated powers in this
matter, including considering the views of the Members of the
Standards Committee and the Independent Person for Standards, and
has approved the Annual Report of the Standards Committee 2020/2021
as an accurate record of the Committee’s work over the
relevant period.
Alternative options considered:
N/A.
Publication date: 25/10/2021
Date of decision: 25/10/2021