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.

32 (a) Declaration of substitutes

32.1    Bob Deschene declared that he was in attendance as a substitute for David Liley.

            32 (b) Declaration of interests

32.2    The Chair declared that he had a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in Item 39 as he was employed by Western Sussex Hospitals Trust. He confirmed that he had have applied for and 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.

            32 (c) Exclusion of press and public

32.3    There were no Part Two items on the agenda.