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Good afternoon and welcome to the meeting, to this meeting of Dorset Council's Licensing Committee on the 30th of May 2024. For the benefit of the people attending or watching on the live stream, I'm Councillor Derek Beer, I'm chair of this committee and my vice chair is Councillor Louise Bell. The meeting has been live streamed and will be available to view on the Council website after the meeting. By attending this meeting you consent to be filmed. Can I remind everyone that when you're speaking please state your name, the ward you represent and speak directly into the microphone so that you can be clearly heard and seen. The officers involved in today's meeting are John Newcombe, the service manager licensing and community safety, Aileen Powell, licensing team leader, Laura Altry, senior lawyer, Elaine Tibble, senior democratic services officer and John Miles, the democratic services officer. Elaine, do we have any apologies? Oh and Graham Duggan. We've got Graham Duggan who also has responsibilities within the Council. Elaine, do we have any apologies? It seems like we might have one or two. Yeah, oh get off. Yeah, thank you, we do have a few apologies today. Apologies from Councillors Haynes, Poscary, Monks, Parker, Morgan, Williams, Webb, Jeans, Weller, Lugg and Frye. Thank you. Are there any other apologies from anybody? No, thank you. Right, next we move on to item two which is to approve them and sign the minutes of the last meeting which was on the 28th of November 23. There are not a lot of us here who were there for that. I'm happy to accept them. Are you happy with the minutes of the last meeting? Yeah, thank you. Okay, then that's carried. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any declarations of interest, please? No? Okay, thank you. And there are no questions or statements of the public, I believe Elaine. Thank you. And last now to have items, we'll now move on to the statement of gambling license policy 2024-27. No? Well, that's the minute, silly me. Yeah. Yeah, that's right, sorry. No public participation. We're going to move on now to the, Aileen will introduce the report for the appointment of licensing subcommittees. Aileen? Yeah. Thank you, Chair. Yeah, this is just a very short report. This is an annual report that we bring after each full annual council. And this will set up the subcommittees that will then hear any of the applications from taxi drivers or premises licenses or any other applications that we have to bring to you. The subcommittees are set into five groups of three members, and they will set out in tables attached to the report. We've also got attached to the report all the various bits from the constitution that are relevant that set out all the delegations. Thank you, Chair. If there are no questions, please might have a proposal of acceptance to the report. Thank you. And a seconder? Thank you. All in favor? Okay. Thank you. And are there any, that's carried. Thank you. Are there any urgent items? Okay. Thank you. And no exempt business? In that case, I hope you've all enjoyed the meeting, and we'll close at 4 minutes past 4. Thank you.