Members of the Committee are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests, in connection with any item on the agenda and state the nature of the interest.

To approve the accuracy of the minutes of the meeting held on 18 November 2020.

The Council, at its meeting on 7 December, 2020, agreed unanimously to the motion, ‘Wirral Council Asked to Back the RSPCA’s Fireworks Campaign’, which included as part of its resolution to, ‘ask the Regulatory and General Purposes Committee to investigate how the Council can work with our licensed venues to encourage the safe, responsible and neighbourly use of fireworks within their grounds’.

The minute is attached.

The following items contain exempt information.

RECOMMENDATION:  That, under section 100 (A) (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined by the relevant paragraphs of Part I of Schedule 12A (as amended) to that Act. The Public Interest test has been applied and favours exclusion.