Decisions regarding re-appointment of Independent Members

Mr A Harwood made this Freedom of Information request to Cumbria Police and Crime Panel This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

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Mr A Harwood
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Dear Cumbria Police and Crime Panel,

At the July 2016 meeting of the Panel, decisions made at the previous meeting regarding the re-appointment of Independent Members were changed quite significantly. Can the report which the Panel relied on at the July 2016 meeting to make these decisions be made available.

Yours faithfully,

Mr A Harwood

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Dear Mr Harwood

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

REFERENCE: FOI 2017-0829

 

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Mr A Harwood
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Dear Information Governance,

My request for the report which the Panel considered before making the following decisions has not been properly answered. On 15 July 2016 the Panel took the following decisions when approving the minutes of the previous meeting:

• the amendment of minute no 99(1) to amend the Panel’s rules of procedure to allow for independent co-opted members to be reappointed without the need for an election provided the individual members were willing to be reappointed;
• the amendment of minute no 99(2) to state that the term of office of Ms L Vance and Mrs J Cooke being continued for 4 years (rather than the 2 years shown in minute)

My request was to see the report which the Panel took into account before considering this matter. Instead I have been sent the link to a report on Member allowances which has nothing to do with the term of office of independent members. Therefore I am asking again to see the report concerning the appointment of independent members which the Panel considered at its July 2016 meeting before taking decisions on this matter. Also, there is no mention on the agenda for this meeting that a decision on the appointment of independent members was to be taken. In the light of the absence of any notice about the intention to transact this business and given the apparent lack of any written report can the Monitoring Officer confirm the Panel acted in accordance with the access to information rules that the Panel is legally obliged to follow.

Yours sincerely,

Mr A Harwood

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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

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