Agenda item - Procedural Business

(a)          Declarations of Interest:  Statements by all Members present of any personal interests in matters on the agenda, outlining the nature of any interest and whether the Members regard the interest as prejudicial under the terms of the Code of Conduct.

(b)          Exclusion of Press and Public:  To consider whether, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, the press and public should be excluded from the meeting when any of the following items are under consideration.

Note:   Any item appearing in Part Two of the agenda states in its heading the category under which the information disclosed in the report is exempt from disclosure and therefore not available to the press and public.

A list and description of the exempt categories is available for public inspection at Brighton and Hove Town Halls and online in the Constitution at Part 3E

147a     Declarations of interests

147.1      Councillor Muten declared an interest in Item 157: General Fund Revenue Budget, Capital & Treasury Management 2025-26 as an allotment holder. Councillor Muten added that his spouse was a Trustee of Hangleton & Knoll Project that received community grants. Councillor Muten stated that he had been provided legal dispensation to participate and vote on the item.

147.2      Councillor Robins declared an interest in Item 157: General Fund Revenue Budget, Capital & Treasury Management 2025-26 as an allotment holder and Trustee of the Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust. Councillor Robins stated that he had been provided legal dispensation to participate and vote on the item.

147.3      Councillor Allen declared an interest in Item 157: General Fund Revenue Budget, Capital & Treasury Management 2025-26 as a Trustee and Board Member of Brighton & Hove Seaside Community Homes. Councillor Allen stated that he had been provided legal dispensation to participate and vote on the item.

147.4      Councillor Daniel declared an interest in Item 157: General Fund Revenue Budget, Capital & Treasury Management 2025-26. Councillor Daniel stated that the interest was of a sensitive nature and stated that they had been provided legal dispensation to participate and vote on the item.

147b     Exclusion of the press and public

147.5    In accordance with Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 (“the Act”), the Committee considered whether the public should be excluded from the meeting during consideration of any item of business on the grounds that it is likely in view of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present during it, there would be disclosure to them of confidential information as defined in Section 100A (3) of the Act.

147.6    Resolved- That the public and press are excluded from the meeting from items listed on Part 2 of the agenda.