Agenda item

Further to the agreement in principle given at the meeting on 4^th April, 2017, the meeting received a report on proposed procedural arrangements for the public to ask questions at the Health and Wellbeing Board meetings.  The meeting noted that the Chair would have discretion to limit the number of questions asked at each meeting to a reasonable number, if a large number of questions were received, or to allow questions to be asked in real cases of urgency where the proposed deadlines could not be met.

RESOLVED:-

(i)        that the proposed arrangements for the public to ask questions at the Health and Wellbeing Board, as set out in the appendix to the report, be approved for implementation from the next meeting, subject to placing a time limit of 15 minutes on the time taken for questions, at the Chair’s discretion;

(ii)       that the arrangements be reviewed after six months operation and annually thereafter; and

(iii)      that the Council’s Cabinet be requested to approve the procedures and amend the Board’s Terms of Reference accordingly.