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 Wesley Harcourt declared a personal interest in respect of Special Motion 2 Threshold Housing Advice, as Threshold Housing Advice was a partner organisation of Advice UK who he worked with.  He was also a trustee of the Hammersmith and Fulham Citizens Advice Bureau.

Councillor Lisa Homan also declared a personal interest in this Special Motion as she was a trustee of the Hammersmith and Fulham Citizens Advice Bureau.