Issue - meetings

AGREED that the Executive Shareholder Committee note the report, with any items being released into the public domain if considered no longer exempt by report authors.

The Leader presented a report which detailed the list of exempt business considered by the Executive Shareholder Committee for period 20 December 2022 to date, for the Committee to determine which reports could be released into the public domain. It was the opinion of Officers that all the reports should remain confidential due to the commercially sensitive nature of the content.

AGREED (unanimously) that the Executive Shareholder Committee note the report, with any items being released into the public domain if considered no longer exempt by report authors.

Reasons for Decision:

To review previous exempt reports and to consider if any information can be released into the public domain. 

Options considered:

This report reviews previous exempt items of business considered by the Executive Shareholder Committee, in order to release any information into the public domain if appropriate.

An alternative approach to taking this report on an annual basis is to utilise the Freedom of Information regime which enables the public to request reports / information to be released at any time which would then be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

There is also provision under the Access to Information Procedure Rules for Members to request the Monitoring Officer to release exempt information into the public domain if there are substantive reasons to do so (paragraph 1.3 of the report refers).