Agenda item - Declarations of substitutes and interests and exclusions

The Chair of the Board will formally ask if anyone is attending to represent another member, and if anyone has a personal and/or financial interest in anything being discussed at the meeting.  The Board will then consider whether any of the discussions to be held need to be in private.

22.1    Councillor Penn declared that she was attending the meeting as a substitute for Councillor Barford, Councillor Janio declared that he was attending the meeting as a substitute for Councillor Taylor. Dr Manas Sikdar had sent his apologies to the Chair and had not sent a substitute.

22.2    The Chair declared that he had a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in Items 26, 27 as he was employed by Western Sussex Hospitals Trust. HE confirmed that he had been granted dispensation by the Council’s Monitoring Officer to permit him to chair the Health and Wellbeing Board in its consideration of items relating to the NHS Sustainability and Transformation Partnership and, to speak and vote on those items, on the basis that the project to review health and social care services did not currently raise a direct or material conflict with his employment.