Agenda and minutes

Apologies were received from Councillors Riley and Curling.

No interests were declared by Members present.

The minutes of the meeting held on 15 March 2018 were agreed as a correct record.

To confirm that the items of business marked Part I will be considered in public and that the items marked Part II will be considered in private.

Items were agreed to be considered in public and private as per their confirmed status on the Cabinet agenda and Cabinet's decisions on the night.

To hear the Call-In of any decisions made at the Cabinet meeting prior to this meeting or made by Cabinet Members, other Council Committees or a delegated officer and published within five working days of this meeting.

Members should bring their Cabinet agenda to the meeting.

Members should consider any other decision published in the five working days before this meeting.

The purpose of this meeting is to decide whether to refer back any decision to the decision maker.

Members gave consideration to the Cabinet reports of 19 April 2018 and the decisions made by Cabinet on them earlier that evening.

Reviewing Item 8 of the Cabinet agenda – Hillingdon First Limited and the approval of the property company business plan, shareholder committee and associated documentation – Labour Members present sought Cabinet’s reconsideration of the decision due to alleged inaccuracies in the company business plan compared to related planning application documentation.

The matter was discussed by all Members present, and in response to this, Councillor John Morse moved a motion to call-in the decision before it took effect and for formal scrutiny of it at a second meeting of the Committee. This motion was seconded by Councillor Peter Money and upon being put to a vote (two votes in favour and four votes against), the motion was lost.

RESOLVED: - That the Cabinet’s decision on Item 8 on the agenda not be called-in for further scrutiny.

After careful consideration of the remaining matters, the Committee decided not to call-in any further decisions made by the Cabinet. However, the Committee did request minor clarifications on information within some reports and it was agreed that these would be provided outside the meeting informally.

RESOLVED: – That the remaining decisions made by the Cabinet at their meeting on 19 April 2018 be endorsed and that no call-in be made.

Note: the report in relation to Item 8 was set out in the Part 2 confidential papers for this meeting. This is due to the fact that the matter was considered in private by the Cabinet and contained information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the Authority holding that information) and the public interest in withholding the information outweighed the public interest in disclosing it (exempt information under paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 as amended).