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

Members of the Panel were asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary and non pecuniary interests in connection with any application on the agenda and state the nature of the interest.

Councillors A Hodson, D Burgess-Joyce and A Wright declared a personal interest in item 4 – Private Hire Driver Licence (SNA) (minute 107 refers) by virtue of the witness being known to them therefore the Panel was not quorate and the hearing was deferred.

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.

Resolved - 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 paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 12A (as amended) to that Act.  The Public Interest Test had been applied and favoured exclusion.

The Director of Law and Governance submitted a report for Members to consider whether SNA should continue to hold a Private Hire Driver Licence.

SNA attended the meeting together with his wife, however further to the witness being known to all Members of the Conservative Group (minute 105 refers), the Panel was not quorate and the hearing could not proceed.

Resolved – That this matter be deferred to a future date of the Regulatory Panel.