Local Government Reform - Consultation on Policy Proposals

More documents

Recommendations

Info

committee model STV Traditional committee structure devolved from the full council to a central policy committee and a limited number of other committees. Single transferable vote where a voter has a single vote but may express a preference for the person to whom that vote should be transferred if his/her first preference has more votes than is required to be elected. Individual committees are established to consider specific issues and return recommendations on appropriate courses of action, for decision by the full council (unless authorised by full council to make that decision). 55
ANNEX B THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 CONFIDENTIALITY OF CONSULTATIONS 1. The Department may publish a summary of responses following completion of the consultation process. Your response, and all other responses to the consultation, may be disclosed on request. The Department can only refuse to disclose information in exceptional circumstances. Before you submit your response, please read the paragraphs below on the confidentiality of consultations and they will give you guidance on the legal position about any information given by you in response to this consultation. 2. The Freedom of Information Act gives the public a right of access to any information held by a public authority, namely, the Department in this case. This right of access to information includes information provided in response to a consultation. The Department cannot automatically consider as confidential information supplied to it in response to a consultation. However, it does have the responsibility to decide whether any information provided by you in response to this consultation, including information about your identity, should be made public or be treated as confidential. 3. This means that information provided by you in response to the consultation is unlikely to be treated as confidential, except in very particular circumstances. The Lord Chancellor’s Code of Practice on the Freedom of Information Act provides that: • the Department should only accept information from third parties in confidence if it is necessary to obtain that information in 56
Page 1 and 2:
Local Gove
Page 3 and 4:
CONTENTS Ministerial Foreword 1 Pur
Page 5 and 6:
LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM CONSULTATIO
Page 7 and 8: implementation proposals, to give e
Page 9 and 10: 3.4. Research has been carried out
Page 11 and 12: Further details on the operation of
Page 13 and 14: within the council and for its repr
Page 15 and 16: 3.16. The order in which positions
Page 17 and 18: 3.21. It is further proposed that,
Page 19 and 20: Question 12: Do you agree that 15%
Page 21 and 22: government to encourage appropriate
Page 23 and 24: Code of Conduct 4.8. The Department
Page 25 and 26: Complaints 4.13. It will be the res
Page 27 and 28: Question 22: Alternatively, would y
Page 29 and 30: 4.22. In order to gain public confi
Page 31 and 32: standards committee (depending on h
Page 33 and 34: framework would also enable Ministe
Page 35 and 36: Question 30: Should councils be req
Page 37 and 38: A Statutory Audit of the Corporate
Page 39 and 40: A Power of Intervention/Enforcement
Page 41 and 42: overarching objective. Community pl
Page 43 and 44: Question 38: Should councils be req
Page 45 and 46: councils in developing and deliveri
Page 47 and 48: • take action where a council has
Page 49 and 50: Transfers of staff, assets & liabil
Page 51 and 52: Question 44: Do you agree that mode
Page 53 and 54: expenditure incurred in this way wo
Page 55 and 56: Name E-mail Telephone Governance; a
Page 57: Devolved decisionmaking Droop Quota
Page 61 and 62: LIST OF CONSULTEES ANNEX C This is
show all

Local Government Reform - Consultation on Policy Proposals

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?