Agenda and minutes

24.1     The Committee RESOLVED to agree the minutes of the meeting held on 19 June 2025 as a correct record.

25.1     Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Taylor.

Disclosures by all Members present of personal interests in matters on the agenda, the nature of any interest and whether the Members regard the interest as prejudicial under the terms of the Code of Conduct.

26.1     Ray Martin, Independent Chair of the Pension Board declared a personal interest in item 7. The detail of this declaration has been withheld as it would reveal exempt information as specified in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended), namely information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information). He did not take part in the discussion for this item.

Notification of items which the Chair considers to be urgent and proposes to take at the appropriate part of the agenda.

27.1     There were no urgent items.

28.1     Reports referred to in the minutes below are contained in the minute book.

To consider excluding the public and press from the meeting for the remaining agenda item on the grounds that if the public and press were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information as specified in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended), namely information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

29.1     The Committee RESOLVED to exclude the public and press from the meeting for the remaining agenda item on the grounds that if the public and press were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information as specified in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended), namely information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) and that the public interest in withholding the exempt information outweighs the public interest in disclosing it.

Report by the Chief Finance Officer

30.1     The Committee considered a report by the Chief Finance Officer introduced by Susan Greenwood, Head of Pensions.

30.2     A summary of the discussion is set out in an exempt minute.

30.3     The Committee RESOLVED to agree the recommendations set out in the exempt report.