Issue - meetings

If a Councillor has any prejudicial or personal interest in a particular report he/she should declare the existence and nature of the interest at the commencement of the consideration of the item or as soon as it becomes apparent.

At meetings where members of the public are allowed to be in attendance and speak, any Councillor with a prejudicial interest may also make representations, give evidence or answer questions about the matter. The Councillor must then withdraw immediately from the meeting before the matter is discussed and any vote taken, unless a dispensation has been obtained from the Standards Committee.

Where members of the public are not allowed to be in attendance, then the Councillor with a prejudicial interest should withdraw from the meeting whilst the matter is under consideration, unless the disability has been removed by the Standards Committee.

Councillor Owen declared a personal interest in agenda item 6.2 (Licensing Act 2003 : Fulham Town Centre – Adoption of a Special Licensing Policy) as a consultant to the British Beer and Pub Association.

The following Councillors declared a personal interest in agenda item 7.4 (Special Motion 4 – Freedom Pass), as follows:-

• Councillors Aherne, Alford, Campbell, Cartwright and Stainton declared that they are in receipt of a Freedom Pass;
• Councillors Umeh and White declared that their husbands are in receipt of a Freedom Pass;
• Councillors Chalk and Karmel declared that their mothers are in receipt of a Freedom Pass;
• Councillor Vaughan declared that his mother-in-law and father-in-law are in receipt of a Freedom Pass;
• Councillor McLaughlin declared that he is in receipt of a Disability Pass;
• Councillor Powell declared that her husband is in receipt of a Disability Pass.