Decision

RESOLVED that the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 and 5 of Schedule 12A of the Act namely, information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information), the financial or business affairs of the preferred bidder or tenderers for the provision or supply of council goods or services, and Information in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal proceedings, and in accordance with Section 36 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, by virtue of the fact that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.