Agenda item

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat 

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The Assembly is recommended to:

(a)   Reconstitute, noting that this is a matter for joint decision with the Mayor and as currently required by law, the Authority’s Standards Committee on the same basis that it is currently constituted, namely with 5 Assembly Members (2 Conservative Assembly Members, 2 Labour Assembly Members and 1 Liberal Democrat Assembly Member), 6 Independent Members and the statutory Deputy Mayor, for the 2011-12 year or until the abolition of the current Standards regime, whichever is earlier;

(b)  Note the Standards Committee’s proposed terms of reference, as set out at Appendix 1(c) (which will be tabled); and

(c)   Note that, irrespective of the decision made in relation to recommendation 2.2 of the report set out at Item 5 of the agenda, political proportionality rules are not applied to this Committee.

6.1  The Assembly received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat.

6.2  Resolved:

(a)   That, noting that this was a matter for joint decision with the Mayor and as required by law, it be agreed to reconstitute the Authority’s Standards Committee on the same basis that it was currently constituted, namely with 5 Assembly Members (2 Conservative Assembly Members, 2 Labour Assembly Members and 1 Liberal Democrat Assembly Member), 6 Independent Members and the statutory Deputy Mayor, for the 2011-12 year or until the abolition of the current Standards regime, whichever is earlier;

(b)   That the Standards Committee’s proposed terms of reference, as set out at Appendix 3, be noted; and

(c)   That it be noted that political proportionality rules did not apply to this Committee.