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Justine, do you want me to...
Good evening.
Just in July, kick off.
Good evening, everyone.
As it's the first meeting
of the Standards Advisory Committee of the municipal year we have to do some electing.
Unlike most of our committees the chair is not elected by full council, it is elected
by the committee and from amongst the co -opties. So can I have a nomination for chair of the
committee please? Can I nominate John? Is there a seconder? Fiona seconds. Any other
nominations is everyone happy to accept John as the chair congratulations John
over to you
sometimes when we remember we do think properly in this committee and
Nominations for vice chair, please.
Fiona Brown.
Seconder.
Seconder.
Marshall.
Rubina, thank you.
Any other nominations?
No.
Thank you.
Fiona, welcome back as vice chair.
I'll carry on speaking for a moment rather than go straight to the agenda.
and to welcome Rubina back and to welcome some new members who we'll get to know.
We are a friendly and collegiate committee, which Council Chair approval will tell you is the case.
We hope we're effective and with your participation we will continue to be so.
So welcome everybody
There was to be a
Presentation of fires at the end of the meeting bringing it forward because Elizabeth Marshall
It was to be her last meeting
Well
Say it's at the beginning
Elizabeth was appointed by the council in July 2013
for three terms, something like that,
and had a period where she could no longer help
because of her husband's dementia.
But when he went into a residential care,
we persuaded her back and she became a co -opted member.
So we've all, both in the committee and I think the council
and the wider community benefited from her experience
and wisdom. And it's sad that she can't be here, but we'll get the flowers to her, one way or another,
and without needing expenses I'm going to take her out to lunch at some appropriate time,
when there's less heat flowing around in the atmosphere.
Let's move then to apologies for absence.
Thank you, Chair. I've received apologies for absence from Patricia Atawiya, Elizabeth, as you just mentioned, Antoinette Bernard and Farham Sinan -Katimbi.
Thank you.
Minutes of the previous meeting which some of us can attest to I'm looking at council child
All okay, I
Know of course you were of course, right
So I think those of us were here can agree to a true and correct record our son
Thank you
Let's move therefore to
reports terms of reference
Thank you chair, this is the annual terms of reference, quorum and meeting dates and
times for this municipal year.
Just asking members if they can agree to this.
Just to let you know these were presented at the AGM on the 20th of May but to be ratified
here I'd just be grateful if members can let me know if they're happy with it or not.
Comments or questions
Are we happy with our terms of reference
Go back to the council and say, you know we want to do
Yeah, you look in pencil you're fine, I think we've agreed terms of reference, thank you
Moving on, register of Gibson Hospitality.
Thank you, Chair. That's me. This time it's Tricia, unfortunately. I had to go home unwell.
So I'm picking up this report.
But for new members, this is one of our standard reports that we have at this committee.
It looks at two main areas. One is the register of interests, which is obviously you've all filled in the form.
when you rejoined or were new after the election,
setting out all your interests,
which we then put on the website,
and also it looks at gifts and hospitality,
so any gifts received and declarations made
around that as well.
This is the first report after the election, obviously,
so we went round to everyone after the election
and got them all to fill out the form.
We did have a couple that were late,
not least one person was out of the country
for a significant period straight off the election which made it slightly tricky.
But we're okay now I understand.
For co -optic members we haven't done the chase at the same time because we've got a lot of screenie co -opties that we're recruiting at the moment.
And so we'll do everyone together, all the co -opties together, once we've got them in place hopefully sort of September -ish, something like that.
In terms of gifts and hospitality,
there's just the one declaration which is from the mayor,
and that was received on time.
So I think.
So you would, and it depends on the function of the dates,
and would be unenviable if you tried it.
Any questions or comments?
Thank you.
In that case, we can move to Code of Conduct.
I'm sorry.
I omitted to welcome you to the committee.
Are you new to the council? Yes, I am new to the council started on the 1st of April
Thank you
so this report is is a quarterly reports which basically reports on the
number of them quote of comments that we've received since the last
election and also it covers the period just before PIRDA. So the last meeting was on the 12th of March I believe and we've received a number of complaints since then.
And I just want to give a brief summary of what we've received since then.
The provision of quarterly reports and essentially from the last meeting there was one outstanding complaint
which was waiting for a police investigation but following the
elections in in May and the member wasn't reelected that report that
complaint was closed because the member ceased to be an elected member of the
council we received roughly about eight between eight or nine complaints since
the beginning of March up until June.
Most of them have been resolved without any referral for investigation.
Since the start of the municipal year post the election,
we've received just one complaint which was resolved again without referral for investigation.
That kind of just summarises the number of complaints that we have received since March.
Thanks, Juma. So just to add, Chair, that we did have a high number of complaints pre -election period.
Not just code of conduct, but also non -code of conduct complaints.
But, you know, post -election, we have seen that most of these complaints have been closed down
and we're seeing the numbers are low or nothing
at the moment, so it's looking positive for the time being.
It's not unexpected that any member who's relatively new
that just before the election there are that level of it.
Sometimes it's been a lot more and a lot worse.
Please continue.
So essentially, since the beginning of the municipal year,
there's not really been any new complaints apart from one.
And the theme has remained more or less the turnaround
in terms of members getting back to residence.
So the most common theme is about basically timeliness
of responses to members to complaints received.
and as was noted already, even the non -conducts,
kind of conduct that we've been dealing with
since I've started, have been more or less
around the same thing.
Any questions?
Thank you. I had a few questions. The first one was, I think I may have made this point
last time through John, but I just was noting that in the health sector they've just recently
published the Mann Review, which is looking at systemic racism in the NHS and recommending
So, my first question was the extent to which we have specialist anti -racism training in
the local authorities.
That's a good question.
So, we do have training on anti -racism training.
on various aspects of equality, ethics and related.
I don't think there's any course
we've specifically badged as anti -racism,
but funnily enough, we are looking at doing something
in the next year as part of the general member
development programme, so we've been in contact
with a couple of organisations that run that kind
of training, exactly what it's gonna be like,
I'm not sure yet, but yes, we are in discussion.
So was your question just in relation to members
or officers as well?
Yeah, all decision makers.
Okay, so in terms of officers,
we do have a programme of mandatory training
that all officers need to attend
and that includes equality and diversity training.
Yes, and that's expected,
and I suppose that's why I was flagging the man review
because it's looking specifically at anti -Jewish and anti -Muslim and other racist behaviour within the NHS.
And one of the recommendations that's come out is about the need for specialist training in those areas.
So it's kind of more than the standard stuff that we already do, if I can put it like that.
and they're talking specifically about decision makers.
They've made, the government's made recommendations
around senior decision makers, board members,
senior members of staff, all staff
in health professional regulators.
So I just, I'm interested, the extent to which,
given the similar kind of context around
looking after the public effectively,
whether the extent to which that's reached over
into local authority kind of approaches.
I don't think we've got anything like that at present,
but it's certainly something we can look into.
I'd look into the man review.
Yes, it'd be interesting to see whether the LGA is
going to pick up that.
Of course, Matthew can use his democratic services network
to see if anyone's doing anything.
So yeah, that would be helpful.
Any other questions or comments?
Sorry, it comes from missing a meeting.
I had a few more.
So in number 15, 2025,
I've got a note to say how will this matter
be escalated externally and what is the reason for this?
So I think that was a complainant
and they said that they were going to escalate it externally.
Would that be to like the Ombudsman?
It's 015 2025.
If somebody is not happy with the way the Code of Conduct complaint has been dealt with,
then yes, they can go to the Ombudsman.
Thank you.
And then I had a question about time limits
for initial investigation of complaints,
because I couldn't find,
because I think we used to have the complaints process.
It may have been in part D of the constitution,
but I couldn't find it, because I know that that's changed.
I may have misremembered that.
So I was just wondering if you could just remind us
of the complaints process,
because I think we've talked about two months for the investigation process, but I wasn't
sure what is the expectation between receipt of complaint and consideration by the independent
person and the monitoring officer and how we've been doing on that against the complaints.
So yes, we do have a process procedure that we updated last year. So is it under the Part
C?
It should be under part C now, I'm just having a quick look.
While Matthew's looking, the way it works is that once the complaint is received, we
have a few days to go back to the member complained about and ask them for a response and I think
it's five days, is it?
Well, Matthew can take you through the timescales.
Yes, no, you're completely right. It's five days. So yes, we moved into part C alongside the codes. That's probably why you didn't find it in part D.
So there's within five working days of receiving the complaint, the monitoring officer will request comments on the allegations in the complaint from the member and the member shall be received, shall respond to that request within 10 working days.
Within a further 10 working days of receiving the comments from the member, the monitoring officer shall decide whether or not to go forward to form an investigation or inform a resolution similar.
In making this determination, the monitoring officer shall may at their discretion report the matter to the casework advisory subcommittee, which is not something we generally have needed to do, but it's there if we wanted.
Was that the right bill? Do you want me to carry on? There's lots more.
No, it was just, I suppose, I was asking a question around timeliness of investigation of complaints and how we're doing against that and whether it's the right time scale.
The reason we did introduce these tighter timescales is because people were not responding
on time, it was taking a long time, we were sending chase up after chase up and people
were not coming back which was delaying matters which is why we've introduced the timescales
so hopefully we'll see things improve going forward.
Yeah I think it's probably something that isn't in the stats we have in front of us
here so should we take that back and we'll come back with a bit more detail.
I think just before the election when there were so many complaints you're going to see a bit of a delay to some of them because there's just a lot of things to deal with.
I think the test is now that we hopefully can deal with each one as it comes in that we should be able to hit the targets.
Thanks ever so much. I've got one or two more if that's okay.
The first one was on the 019 complaint and I was interested that that I just wanted to
understand a little bit more detail about that because it was considered by the IP and
they said that the leaflet was clearly political and it seems like in terms of the complaint
it went to the sort of through the Councillor complaint process and then it was said it
wasn't a Councillor complaint process and then it was returned back into the complaint
process and I was wondering, I wasn't sure whether it was kind of kicked out because
the person wasn't acting as a counsellor or whether they were acting as a counsellor and
the extent to which that had been considered within the complaint. I was looking particularly
As a member you can express challenge and criticise and disagree with views but also
under the part G where as a member I don't misuse council resources and I just wasn't
clear how it filtered through.
Does that make sense?
I just wanted, I suppose what I'm looking for is assurance that all of those aspects
of the code were considered within the complaint?
I think it was quite clear.
I took over this complaint midway because my colleague who was the DMO had met with
the IP and when we reviewed it, what actually came clear was that it wasn't political material
that the leaflet that was being complained of,
it was actually people dropping off leaflets
at someone's address, which was actually
a breach of the code.
And so when I met with the IP to confirm what was decided,
it became clear that there was no breach of the code.
So it was basically political leafletting
that was delivered at someone's address,
what they didn't couldn't be tied to the actual member they was complaining about
I'm just the very last one was on zero to four
I just wasn't clear why that had been closed without involvement of the IP
I'll have to double cheque but I think it's because they were no longer a councillor and
therefore it felt.
Thank you.
Thank you, Fiona.
Any other questions or comments?
Hopefully...
Ah!
It's in relation to the timeliness of how members respond to constituents. Members often
have a lot of case work and sometimes receive endless members inquiries and emails and sometimes
receive one after the other from the same person because they should complain. But how
are members, which I'm interested in from the officers, are supported in terms of being
So we are referring to the member inquiries process.
Not just member inquiries, but just complaints or emails that will be written on it.
So obviously there is a member inquiries process that will follow for information or any casework
related work but members can raise an inquiry and also you have member support
officers who can help cabinet members have cabinet support
When it becomes a vexatious complaint.
So vexatious complaint?
When it becomes, and you know it, you can really pick up on it and it becomes quite vexatious.
I don't think there's anything specifically for, because if it's your casework, then there isn't anything...
If it's your case work, it's quite slightly different.
Yeah.
So we know how to use them, in quite a broad respect, all counsels would know.
But when it becomes a vexatious complaint.
I don't think there's anything in particular available to support with regards to vexatious
complaints.
Obviously, if members are being harassed or intimidated, then that's a different matter
where we can look to provide support.
So we don't provide general admin support to all members.
But one thing I would say is that we do provide a clause in the Code of Conduct that if you
do feel like somebody's just bombarding you, you are perfectly entitled to say to them
that you can't deal with them anymore and providing you direct them to an appropriate
contact which would usually just be the council's basic contact centre.
I'm asking that because previously it would have been signposted to the legal monitoring office
having had that three experiences.
If you felt that they were troubling you too much.
So I'm not sure whether or not this still stands.
If it's harassment or intimidation, then obviously you can raise it with me and I'll look to
see what we can do to help. But it does have to be the bar is quite high.
I understand the bar because we've been through it three times here.
Thanks, Trev.
I'm looking around.
I should welcome Councillor Ahmed who has joined us online.
Thank you.
Good afternoon, everyone.
Good afternoon, Chair.
I have sincere apologies for the late joining.
Thank you.
I made the point during the induction training on ethics and probity, again, as I've made
before the importance of members responding to officers on complaints.
I'll continue to make that whenever the appropriate forum arises.
So if there's nothing else we'll move on to dispensations 4 .4.
agreed? agreed.
Thank you.
So this is my report on dispensations that have been granted.
So the committee is asked to note the general dispensation in relation to housing matters.
And also note that regular reports update reports on dispensation will be provided to committee
And I believe went to full council the entry the full council have actually agreed it the general dispensations
Well, these general dispensations that I granted as monitoring officer for council report
Report was presented for council. They've noted it and the committee is now asked to know to
This is standard year -on -year and
Necessary and appropriate so I think we won't have any problems noting it
Green should continue
so
That takes us to 4 .5 political culture improvements update.
Is Joel appearing online?
Where are you Joel?
Here you are.
I'm online, can you hear me?
Yep, thank you.
Welcome.
Over to you.
Thank you.
I, I, I, Shabria do you want me to introduce a report?
I'm happy to.
Yes please Joel.
Okay, great. Welcome everyone and good evening. Where's my next column?
So the report, this report just provides an update on progress against political culture improvement activity.
For new members, that's basically a strand of the council's wider continuous improvement plan.
The continuous improvement plan sets out how the council will respond to the Ministerial directions.
So this is one aspect of that.
The report, the update today, sets out four objectives of the Political Culture Improvement Project
and provides you with a bit more detail on each.
I'll just run through those objectives.
So objective one is focusing on creating respectful, inclusive political culture.
You may have heard, I'm sure you all have heard of the Member's Pledge.
That's now been launched, it's published.
We've been awareness raising.
We think all members have now signed the pledge.
and later this month full council will have the opportunity to discuss it and
that's the members pledge. You've seen it before but it's attached as Appendix 1.
Objective 2 of the project is for members and officers to share
understanding of roles, engagement and support. The main activity with that is
the member empowerment protocol. That's a new document. It sets out clear
expectations of members in different roles and the support available to them
in each of those roles. Its main aim is to remove perceptions of
inconsistent support between members and it reinforces the
principle hopefully that all members are supported equally regardless of
political affiliation. I suppose another way to put that is the support
follows the role not the political affiliation and that protocol is
attached as Appendix 2. Objective 3 is for members to have the tools, training
and time just to perform their role. That's basically our learning and
development offer and there's a brief summary of recent learning and
development induction really within the report and understanding more
comprehensive report will be coming to the Advisory Committee in the autumn. And
final objective is for officers to understand how and when to engage
members and communicate appropriately so that they can provide trusted and impartial evidence -based
support. The main activity in that is some officer -led, sorry, officer -targeted training
on how they can work successfully in a political environment. We've been discussing that with the
LGA. They have a quite solid offer on that already. I'm happy to talk more about that
if needed. There's also a reference to a partnership that we're running,
The council is running with the HDRC, that's the Health Determinants Research Collaboration,
which is a partnership between the council and some local universities to upskill officers
in research skills to try and drive and strengthen the use of data and evidence in decision -making
at council.
But I mentioned briefly the next sort of key milestones later this month for council, 22nd
July, we're presenting a wider, there'll be two reports on that
agenda. One is a wider improvement update on the CIP
sort of broadly. Another one is a more focused report on
political culture, basically the report that's in front of the
advisory committee tonight. And we're hoping that full council
will be, will wish to endorse both the member pledge and the
member empowerment protocol at that meeting and just generally
have a good discussion about the Council's improvement journey.
So that's a brief summary. We welcome any thoughts from the
Advisory Committee on anything in the report. Just a caveat is
that we're publishing the full Council report that needs to
be published tomorrow. So if there's any burning issues you
have or changes that you might encourage us to make, please
please let us know. That's it, thank you. Thank you, Joel. Well, we welcome this report and
I look forward to people's, members' comments and questions. But just one before
we start, on the ethics and probative training, there's a reference the number of people who
attended in paragraph 314.
Haven't done the math.
How many people didn't attend?
Sorry, I realised that was a question to me
and I wasn't listening.
Sorry, I apologise.
Can you repeat that?
How many people didn't attend, members,
Anne -Mare didn't attend the ethics and property training.
I can't remember off the top of my head, there are a few,
but we are looking to do another session.
We do not intend to let anyone get away
without doing the ethics and property training.
Yes, we believe in mandatory means,
mandatory in this committee.
We intend to deliver ourselves.
At this point let me show it over to others for questions and comments.
I just wanted to update members that with regards to the member pledge, we've had really
good take -ups, so I'm now told the latest figure is that all members except one has
signed, so we're just waiting for one other member to sign the member pledge. And then
then it will be a record.
Well, that's good.
So I just have a pedantic grammar error.
Well, I think it's an error on page 97, just
the early warning signs.
I presume that arguing an aggressive comma shouting
should be aggressive shouting or aggression of some kind. And disrespecting doesn't sound,
probably disrespect for me sounds better than, so arguing aggressive shouting or aggression
stroke disrespect sounds a little bit better in my book but I'm open to be challenged about
I didn't know what the adjective aggressive was in there for.
I hope you're noting Joel.
Yeah so we've been through, is this in the member pledge?
I actually I can't which paper sorry which page number it says.
It's page 97. The members pledge sorry yeah.
Yeah, I mean I'll make a note of it. We've been through the Member Pledge a number of times and the sort of
what's word is that we tend not to tinker with the wording because it's the wording that was proposed
by the elected members who participated in the workshops at the time but I'm having a bit of
trouble pulling it up but I will make a note of that on page 97. Thank you. The aggression etc.
thank you
just the other thing on that it says about the date putting in for a full
away day is that in in the cycle of the calendar or to be put in?
It's it's something to
Yes, sorry
So we are and it's something to be put in in short with as your Priya and I are hoping to convene a meeting of
the political group WIPs
within for hopefully this month and we can discuss these sort of
we discussed this amongst various other things to try and get a steer on the appetite for that.
Thank you.
Fiona.
I just only wanted to say it's really good to see how this has been developed and now it's come to fruition.
and I can hear the counsellors saying things in the room and I can see it on the paper
and I just wanted to say, you know, well done for all the work that you've done on that.
And I really enjoyed also reading all of the different roles descriptors
because that's something that I heard really clearly in the sessions that we were at as well.
And I think it's, for me obviously I'm not a counsellor, I'm as a layperson,
and it's really good to see all of this explicit and laid down in a way that hopefully will support and build understanding.
I mean, it remains to be seen and obviously the members will give their feedback across the year.
But just from a lay perspective to see all this written down so clearly I thought was very positive and very transparent.
So I just wanted to say that, so thank you.
I've got a follow -up question to that point, Joel.
Does any other local authority assemble such a pledge and in particular protocol?
With the pledge we are aware of one or two other local authorities.
I think I could be wrong in this. I think Slough has gone through that route.
I don't know anything though about what those other authorities did regarding the process of developing it.
You know, I think ours, our pledge process was co -designed with members. We had workshops, various discussions.
But I'm aware of other documents of that type. With the protocol,
we are aware of
documents called things like ward member protocols existing in other local authorities.
there's a particular sort of patch of local authorities.
It's a while now since I did the research
but there's a particular sort of area,
I think it was like the Northwest
where there seemed to be quite a few councils
had felt the need as Fiona said,
to sort of explicitly state what roles do,
what expectations are,
but it's really, I think both are relatively rare
in the sector.
I sort of expected that answer,
But I repeat, I agree with Fiona, I welcome the protocol,
and I take the point that we're to do an annual review.
So this is not the last bite of this particular cherry.
Inevitably, he says, looking at Joel,
you know I'll come up with lots of grammatical,
well, typos, let's call them that.
I've got a couple of other points that you might like to take in tonight. We're not going to do typos
We're not that kind of committee. I'll meet Joel separately
Are there any other questions or comments before I bang on a bit?
This very quickly. I wanted to welcome the fact that
Nearly every single member as she said it for borrowing one
I think that's not necessarily because the member doesn't want to sign it. It's probably because of timing or any other reason
that have signed a pledge because I do remember pre -election there were one or two members
that were refusing to sign the pledge and I knew the election was going to be quite
a momentous occasion for this political toxicity or this political improvement journey. And
the fact that nearly every single member has signed it, I've seen in the training sessions
we've got members of all different parties actually being quite decent with
one another you know just actually contribute in and that environment I can
see a visible tangible sort of difference and I just wanted to welcome
it to be honest it's to start off a four -year cycle I'm really looking
forward to working with members of all sort of persuasion but once again I did
want to note that I do remember being in a room where members were refusing to
the pledge and it's welcoming that nearly everyone have signed it.
I certainly agree with you and I recall being in such meetings. It might well have been
that some of those refusing were being political rather than not actually thinking that the
Paragraph 3 to 4 where it said it's early indications of the improvement.
Yes, I said, but let's start where we intend to go on and let's hope that is the case.
I'm gonna back off in case anybody else has any of comments
I'll come back in
Joe I've not got any comment for the reasons you said about the pledge
It's been a lot of work done on that
I
I noted that on the 51 pages of the protocol,
this must have kept you happy during your evening's members,
reading this, that you're gonna add a date at some point.
There are three things I thought were the,
I've mentioned tonight.
If you go to, let me see,
Get the reference
On the cabinet member role on the final page
It says
Where the council receives inquiries from media relation to issues within their portfolio
It may provide contact details of the relevant cabinet members now common sense
So you'll tell the cabinet member.
But I'd very much prefer it also says giving them notice of doing so
because mistakes can get made.
And I'd make the same point, if I can find my, on the leader of the opposition.
It says the leader of the opposition will be notified of media inquiries
but we should add giving them notice of doing so, so they're not surprised.
And I had one other specific that I thought was raising tonight before you go to final press.
And that's in 7A, Political Group Role, on the second page.
I can't give you a reference.
In Understanders and Conduct, the third paragraph says,
encourage appropriate use of social media,
swift and proportionate responses to online abuse,
I would have thought it was adding in there another short paragraph, something along the lines of notifying the director of communications regarding online abuse and allegations.
because if the WIPs notice all this, or this hopefully non, because sadly it will be, if they notice abuse and allegations,
they ought to make sure that the council is aware of it at some central point, which, and I haven't looked at the social media protocol,
but
somewhere in the director of comms
Area, somebody should know of everyone because they may not spotted them these things arise and move so quickly
I've got other
minor stuff because I'll come back to you at some later point and
Perhaps you issue as with the final version after it's been approved by council
Yeah, sure, happy to do that.
Any other questions or comments?
Looks like we're going to have a short meeting.
Joel, you've got away with it, unless you'd like to add some more.
Just very briefly, in relation to your question earlier on, about whether other practises
other councils, I should add that we've had quite a bit of interest from other councils,
either directly or through the LGA. So other councils are interested in the member pledge
work specifically, and especially those that have political culture issues of their own are
interested in finding out whether that can help them. I forgot I should have mentioned that,
but that's the only point. Ah, well now you've said that, I look at the two lawyers in the room,
You know, where's our intellectual property rights on this stuff?
How much can we sell it for?
Got to recover your salary somehow. Sorry, I'm here.
Fair in the public sector. We don't charge fees.
Do me right. I'm sharing.
Well, I think we've completed our discussion for tonight at any rate of the update.
Joe and others, thank you for that. Thank you. Good night. Good night
Moving on to the work
Thank you chair, so we come to the first meeting of a full four -year cycle
We have a work plan which we set out and has sort of all the standard reports if you like that
They would come to expect
Things to highlight in the autumn will be doing some stuff around the member induction giving you some more details about that and looking at the first steps around the member development programme.
Most of the other things are on the on the work probably fairly standard.
If there's anything you think it would be a good thing for us to include on the the work plan and do let us know.
One other thing to highlight is that we need to sort out the annual report to council from last year.
So we'll talk to the chair about the best way of doing that and getting that up to full council in the autumn.
The one thing of course we are waiting for from the government is the changes they're looking to make to the standards regime.
And we don't know the impact of those, but we're not expecting those changes for a little while yet.
I suppose as a quick update, Chair, if it's all I would just mention, I suppose, therefore we are looking to do the recruitment for the co -optees
to fill some gaps there that might come up or get people to reapply or depending on how we do it.
But we've got to sort out some potential expiries there.
We were waiting to see what was going to happen with the government before we jumped
because we didn't want to do things and then discover that the government were doing something else.
But as the government aren't doing anything, we've got to do something.
I guess it's going to be an even longer delay because there's likely to be musical chairs in a couple of ministers.
That is perfectly possible and given it didn't get into the King's speech I think we're not expecting anything for a while and then yes, who knows what the new priorities will be.
So we would be putting this three copies that are out in the that we will need to put out for
Adverts current copies are of course very welcome to apply but but we will need to complete that process appropriately
Any questions or comments on the work
Well, thank you everyone I think
And this is any other business he says looking around
And looking at the screen
That we've come to the end of the meeting so I should thank you for your attendance and look forward to seeing you
Thank you