Issue - meetings

Members are asked at this stage to declare any interests that they may have in any of the following items on the agenda.  The Code of Conduct for Members requires that declarations include the nature of the interest and whether it is a disclosable pecuniary interest (see attached guidance and flowchart)

The Monitoring Officer (MO) informed members that she had granted dispensations to those members that were also Norfolk County Council councillors (known as ‘Twin Hatters’) to enable them to participate in the debate and vote on Local Government Reorganisation (Agenda item 9)

The following members declared that they had received such a dispensation:

Cllr T Adams, Cllr N Dixon, Cllr S Penfold and Cllr L Shires.

Cllr J Punchard declared that he had been granted a dispensation as an employee of Norfolk County Council.