This meeting of the Licensing Committee was scheduled to discuss two similar items. The meeting was also scheduled to consider whether to exclude the public and press from part of the meeting.

Exclusion of the public and press

The Committee was scheduled to consider whether to exclude members of the public and the press from attending part of the meeting because the items to be discussed were considered confidential.

The report pack prepared for the meeting states that:

In accordance with Paragraph 11 of the Access to Information Rules in Part 4 of the Council’s Constitution, the Chief Executive has determined that the report submitted under items 4 and 5 of this agenda are “Not for Publication” because they contain “exempt information”, as defined in Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. If the Committee agrees that the public and press should be excluded for these items, it will need to pass the following resolution: “That the public and press be excluded from the meeting whilst agenda items 4 and 5 be considered, as they refer to exempt information as defined in category 1 (information relating to any individual) of Part 1 of Schedule 12(a) of the Local Government Act, 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) Variation Order 2006 and, that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information”.

Proprietor failing to properly maintain licensed Hackney Carriage Vehicle

Two separate reports, both titled Proprietor failing to properly maintain licensed Hackney Carriage Vehicle were scheduled to be discussed by the Committee. The reports were prepared by the Director of Environment.