Decision details

It was proposed by the Chairman, seconded by the Vice-Chairman and RESOLVED:

“THAT the recommendations as set out at paragraph 6.0 of the report be adopted, namely:

1.  That a confidential /exempt report is reviewed a year after the ultimate decision taking body has considered it;

2.  That the reviews of the status of exempt information relate to all decisions other than those taken by the Standards Committee or its sub-committees;

3.  That only exempt decisions taken after the constitution has been updated are affected by this process – in other words, it is not retrospective;

4.  That the list of officer delegations in the constitution be amended to include a delegation to the Corporate & Regulatory Services Manager to conduct reviews of exempt information and determine whether it should be published;

5.  That the Corporate & Regulatory Services Manager publishes his decision on each review giving reasons for such decision;

6.  That Democratic Services uses the modern.gov system to publish reports that are no longer deemed to be exempt;

7.  That, if after the first year review a report is still treated as exempt, that report should then be the subject of a further similar review on the third anniversary of the decision having been first reviewed;

8.  That full Council receives a report on the decisions reviewed by the Corporate and Regulatory Services Manager on an annual basis; such a report to include the reasons wherever it is considered not possible to release the report/information to the public;

9.  That the additional paragraphs, as shown in Annex 1 to the report, to the Council’s Access to Information Rules be approved.”