The council holds different types of meetings:

• Full Council meetings which all councillors attend
• Regulatory committees which some councillors attend:
  • Civic Affairs and Audit
  • Planning committees
  • Licensing committees
• Scrutiny committees which some councillors attend:
  • Performance, Assets and Strategy
  • Services, Communities and Climate

Questions and statements at committee meetings

Questions and statements must not:

• contain offensive or defamatory expressions
• relate to the conduct of individual council employees or to human resources matters
• divulge confidential or exempt information
• be identical or very similar to a question or statement that has already been answered at a previous meeting

Public questions and statements are normally dealt with at the beginning of the meeting during the public questions agenda item.

If you are speaking on behalf of a group or organisation, you can introduce yourself, but you do not need to read your question out.

Where ICT equipment permits, the committee manager will share the text of the question on screen.

Responses to questions or statements at committee meetings

The Cabinet Member, Committee Chair or officer can respond to a public question for up to two minutes.

When you have received your response, you will have an opportunity to ask a further question or statement for up to a minute.

The Cabinet Member, Committee Chair or officer then has another opportunity to respond for up to two minutes.

Submitting a question

If you want to submit a question, you must email it to us by midday two working days before the meeting. If the meeting is on a Tuesday, you must submit the question by midday on the Friday before the meeting.