The Leader of the Council introduced the report and noted paragraph 3.1 with the number of complaints against Members was relatively low when compared favourably with other Councils and then recommended that the engagement of the Independent Persons should continue until the Annual Meeting of the Council in 2022.

RESOLVED

For the purposes of section 28 of the Localism Act 2011, the Council agreed to continue the appointment of Sarah Cooper-James and Fiona Fairweather as its Independent Persons until the Annual Meeting of the Council in 2022.