Issue - meetings

This feasibility report presents information on a possible scrutiny review on the transparent formulation of council policy.

Members considered a feasibility report on the topic of ‘The Transparent Formulation of Council Policy’.

Members commented that the formulation of policy was the responsibility of individual political groups when agreeing their manifestos and therefore it did not require transparency.

Members also noted that if the review were undertaken at this time it could lead to the duplication of work currently in progress as part of the ethical governance audit.

RESOLVED:       That the review not be pursued at this time and that any future decision on whether to proceed with the review be deferred until the outcome of the audit was known and the new practices being introduced by the group leaders were embedded in the organisation