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 online in the Constitution at Part 3E

1.1  Substitutions – Cllr Guilmant for Cllr Miller. Apologies from Sara Fulford, Jo Martindale, Adam Muirhead, Lesley Hurst, Dr Anusree Biswas.

1.2  Declarations of interest – Cllr Czolak declared an interest as a Governor of the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

1.3  Exclusion of press and public – The Chair read the following statement on the potential exclusion of the press and public: Amongst the papers circulated to elected members were confidential (Part 2) papers from the Cabinet Meeting. Any discussion of these papers will need to be in confidential session and will need to exclude the press & public from these discussions. We will move into a Part 2 confidential session towards the end of the meeting, if members indicate that they wish to discuss information shared in the Part 2 papers. All committee members are reminded not to raise matters contained in the Part 2 documentation during the public meeting.