Decision Maker: Executive Member for Corporate Services
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The response to the Government consultation on
“Enabling Remote Attendance and Proxy Voting at Local
Authority Meetings” has been provided to support giving Local
Authorities the flexibility to allow remote meetings.
It is important to ensure that councils have
the option and flexibility to use the remote and hybrid meetings
where they choose to do so. Therefore the Council has responded
positively to the consultation to potentially allow remote meetings
as identified in Appendix 1 of the attached report.
This is the response to the consultation and any changes would
require a Government decision and changes to the
legislation.
The Council could choose not to respond or
could choose not to support remote meetings and support proxy
voting. Following the cross party discussions at the Member Working
Group on the Constitution, these alternative options have not been
followed and the response in Appendix 1 has been agreed.
Publication date: 18/12/2024
Date of decision: 18/12/2024