Issue - meetings

            The Committee considered a report of the Director of Law and Democratic Services (Monitoring Officer) asking the Committee to agree its Annual Report for 2009/10 and Work Programme for 2010/11.

            Resolved – (1) That the Annual Report for 2009/10 be approved and forwarded to Council for information, subject to a number of typographical amendments together with the following:

·        Inclusion of actual average time taken to process Code of Conduct complaints at assessment and review stage, and information comparing the source and subject of complaints for 2009/10 to those received in 2008/09.

·        Inclusion of information on outcome of whistleblowing complaints.

·        Inclusion of the Chair’s Introduction.

            (2) Any additional amendments be advised to the Monitoring Officer within the next 7 days.

      (3) That the Committee’s Work Programme for 2010/11 be approved, subject to corrections to the dates of meetings.