Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Governance Committee

In order to make the call-in procedure clearer, Governance Committee had recommended that the relevant Overview and Scrutiny Committee be required to meet within 10 working days of the requisition being received unless an ordinary meeting of the Committee was due within 15 working days.

The recommendation of Governance Committee was APPROVED without division and it was RESOLVED that:

The Overview & Scrutiny Procedure Rules be adjusted by amending paragraph 17(b) of the Rules to read as follows:

(b)         If the Committee Administration and Member Support Manager is notified of a requisition of a decision shown on that notification within three working days in Calendar Brief (or any supplementary Calendar Brief) of a decision, then that decision shall not be acted upon but shall be submitted to the OSC as soon as possible, either at the next ordinary meeting if due within 15 working days of receipt of the requisition or at a special meeting convened for the purpose (to be held, so far as practicable, within 10 working days of the receipt of the requisition), for determination.