Declarations of Interests
Councillors are requested to declare any interests on items included in this agenda. Please refer to the workflow on the preceding page for guidance.
Declarations received will be reported at the meeting.
Minutes:
The Monitoring Officer advised that all Councillors had been granted a dispensation in respect of Agenda Item 9 (Cabinet 2 October 2024 – Minute No. 59 - Community Governance Review of BCP Council area) to ensure that all Councillors were freely able to fully participate in the debate and vote. In addition, the Monitoring Officer advised that the granting of the dispensation would be reported to the next meeting of the Standards Committee.
The Chief Executive advised that whilst there had been no specific declarations of interests received that Councillors who were directors of council owned companies may wish to declare their directorship in interest for the purposes of transparency for Item 10 (Cabinet 2 October 2024 – Minute No. 60 – Council Owned Companies Shareholder Governance Review).
Councillors S Bartlett, D Brown, M Earl, D d’Orton-Gibson, M Howell, A Martin, S McCormack, J Salmon, P Sidaway, and K Wilson declared interests in Agenda Item 10 (Cabinet 2 October 2024 – Minute No. 60 – Council Owned Companies Shareholder Governance Review) and remained present for the discussion and voting thereon.
In addition, Councillor M Howell also declared an interest in Agenda Item 8 (Cabinet 2 October 2024 – Minute No. 55 – Poole Civic Centre) as the Sheriff of Poole and Chair of the Civic Working Group.