Freemasons working for Swansea Council
Fiona Hughes made this Freedom of Information request to Swansea Council This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Swansea Council,
Does the Council, including the monitoring/compliance officer hold any recorded information to show whether there are any freemasons as Councillors or staff in the council?
Does the Council hold any recorded information whether masonry is compatible or not with the Nolan principles of public life for the Council?
Could you send me the functions, job description and statutory responsibilities for monitoring/compliance officer.
Does this officer have any other titles in the council?
Has the council got a Local Code for Corporate Governance?
Are councillors and staff asked to declare their
membership of the freemasons or do any so voluntarily, and are there any minuted discussions of whether freemasonry should be declared have ever taken place?
The Local Authorities (Model Code of Conduct) (Wales) Order 2008, County Councillors are required to declare in Sections 2(c) and 2(f) of the Council's form for the registration of personal interests if they have membership or are in a position of general control or management of any:
2(c): "company, industrial and provident society, charity or body directed to charitable purposes"
2(f): "Private club, society or association operating within the Authority area".
This would appear to cover Freemasonry. Under s16, does the monitoring officer take this view?
How many freemasons are registered as councillors?
Yours faithfully,
Fiona Hughes
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Dear Ms Hughes
Please find attached a letter in response to your FOI Request along with a
copy of the Annual Governance Statement for 2017/18 and the Job
Description for the Chief Legal Officer (Monitoring Officer)
Regards
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| |Viv Rees |
| |Rheolwr Gweithrediadau Busnes |
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| |Business Operations Manager |
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| |( 01792 636015 | 07976 659375 |
| |* [1][email address] |
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| |* [2][email address] |
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