The report of the City Solicitor is attached.

A report was submitted which asked the Constitutional and Nomination Committee to make recommendations to the Council about the size and composition of the Council’s committees and to appoint chairs and deputy chairs of the committees.

 

The Committee expressed its thanks to the staff of the Council who had helped with the compilation of the membership details for all the committee appointments and other positions.

 

The Committee noted where for the purposes of Political Balance in accordance with rule 6.6 of the Council Procedure Rules the Opposition Group of the Council was entitled to a place on a committee and had not taken up that place.

 

The details of appointments of chairs and members of the committee are listed below:

Decision

 

To recommend to Council the appointment of the following members to the Executive Standing Panel for 2019/20:

 

Executive Standing Consultative Panel

 

Councillors -

Ilyas	S Judge	Karney	Leech	Midgeley
M Sharif Mahamed	Sheikh	Taylor

 

Chairs and Deputies

 

Decisions

 

1.    To recommend to Council the appointment of the following members as chairs of scrutiny committees for the next municipal year:

 

Young People and Children	Councillor Stone
Communities and Equalities	Councillor Hacking
Economy	Councillor H Priest
Resources and Governance	Councillor Russell
Neighbourhoods and Environment	Councillor Igbon
Health	Councillor Farrell

 

2.    To recommend the Council to appoint the following members as chairs and deputy chairs of the non executive committees for the next municipal year:

 

Committee	Chair	Deputy Chair
Audit	Councillor Ahmed Ali
Planning & Highways	Councillor Curley	Councillor N. Ali
Licensing and Appeals	Councillor Ludford	Councillor Grimshaw
Licensing Committee	Councillor Ludford	Councillor Grimshaw
Licensing Policy	Councillor Ludford	Councillor Grimshaw
Constitutional and Nomination	Councillor Karney
Personnel	Councillor Ollerhead

 

Membership of Committees

 

The Committee reviewed the membership of committees.

 

Decision

 

To recommend to Council the membership of committees for the municipal year 2019/20 as follows:

 

Scrutiny Committees

 

Children and Young People (at least 10 members)

 

Councillors -

Kilpatrick	S. Ali	Alijah	Hewitson	T. Judge
Lovecy	McHale	Madeleine Monaghan	Rawlins	Reeves
Reid	Sadler	Stone (Chair)	Wilson

 

Co-opted Members

Representative of the Diocese of Manchester – Vacant*

Representative of the Diocese of Salford – Mrs Julie Miles*

Parent governor representative – Mr Ade Arogundade*

Parent governor representative – Dr Walid Omara*

Parent governor representative – Ms Zaneta Stepan*

Secondary sector teacher representative – Mr Liam Duffy

Primary sector teacher representative – Mr Russell Lammas * denotes members with voting rights on education matters

 

Communities and Equalities (at least 10 members) - a position on the Committee has not been taken up by the Liberal Democrats Group

 

Councillors -

Andrews	Chambers	Collins	M. Dar	Doswell
Douglas	Evans	Grimshaw	Hacking (Chair)	Kirkpatrick
Rawson	Rowles

 

Neighbourhoods & Environment (at least 10 members)

 

Councillors -

Azra Ali	Appleby	Butt	Flanagan	Harland
Hassan	Hughes	Igbon (Chair)	Jeavons	Kilpatrick
Lynch	Lyons	Razaq	Sadler	Strong
Whiston	White	Wright

 

Economy (at least 10 members)

 

Councillors -

Abdullatif	Douglas	Green	Hacking	Hitchen
Johns	Noor	H. Priest (Chair)	Raikes	Shilton Godwin
K. Simcock	Stanton

 

Health (at least 10 members) – a position on the has not been taken up by the Liberal Democrats Group

 

Councillors -

Curley	Farrell (Chair)	Holt	Mary Monaghan	Newman
Riasat	Watson	Wills	Vacant	Vacant

 

Resources and Governance (at least 10 members)

 

Councillors -

Ahmed Ali	Andrews	Battle	Clay	Davies
Lanchbury	Moore	O’Neil	B. Priest	Russell (Chair)
A Simcock	Stanton	Wheeler

 

Non Executive Committees

 

Art Galleries Committee - In addition to the members of the Council,7 persons are to be nominated by University of Manchester. (14 elected members)

 

Councillors -

Akbar	Bridges	Craig	Leech	Leese
N Murphy	S Murphy	Ollerhead	Stogia	Richards
Rahman	7 x Co-opted

 

Audit Committee (11 members plus 2 independent co-opted)

 

Councillors -

Ahmed Ali (Chair)	Clay	Lanchbury	Russell	Stanton
Watson	Vacant	Vacant	Vacant	Vacant
Vacant	Dr D Barker (Co-opted member)	Mr S Downs (Co-opted member)

 

Planning and Highways Committee (up to 15 members) – a position on the Committee has not been taken up by the Liberal Democrats Group

 

Councillor

Nasrin Ali	Shaukat Ali	Clay	Curley (Chair)	Y. Dar
Davies	Hitchen	Kamal	Lovecy	Lyons
Madeleine Monaghan	Riasat	Watson	White	Wilson

 

Licensing and Appeals Committee (not less than 10 and not more than 15) – a position on the Committee has not been taken up by the Liberal Democrats Group

 

Councillors -

Evans	Grimshaw	Hughes	Jeavons	T. Judge
Ludford (Chair)	Lyons	McHale	Madeleine Monaghan	Reid
Stone	Lynch

 

Licensing Committee (not less than 10 and not more than 15) - a position on the Committee has not been taken up by the Liberal Democrats Group

 

Councillors -

Evans	Grimshaw	Hughes	Jeavons	T. Judge
Ludford (Chair)	Lyons	McHale	Madeleine Monaghan	Reid
Stone	Lynch

 

Licensing Policy Committee (up to 6) - a position on the Committee has not been taken up by the Liberal Democrats Group

 

Councillors -

Akbar

Davies

Grimshaw

Ludford (Chair)

 

Standards Committee (6 members of the Council, 1 Ringway Parish Councillor and 2 Independent members)

 

Councillors -

Andrews	Evans	Kilpatrick	Lanchbury	A Simcock
Nicole Jackson (Co-opted Independent Chair)	Cllr O’Donovan (Ringway PC)	Geoff Linell (Co-opted Independent)	Sarah Beswick (Co-opted Independent)

 

In accordance with Article 9 of the Council Constitution, to recommend the appointment of Councillor Andrews for the purpose of answering questions at Council on the work of the Standards Committee.

 

Personnel Committee - Membership formula comprises the Leader of the Council, all members of the Executive, one Assistant Executive Member, one member of the Liberal Democrats Group.

 

Councillors -

Akbar	Bridges	Craig	Leech	Leese
N Murphy	S Murphy	Ollerhead (Chair)	Stogia	Richards
Leech	Sheikh

 

Employee Appeals Committee (Formulaic Membership)

 

An Executive Member with a relevant portfolio (i.e. Executive Member for the service in which the employee was working or the Executive Member with a portfolio relevant to the specific subject area of the appeal) or an appropriate Assistant Executive Member.

Two members drawn from the Council’s Executive Members or their Assistant Executive Members, or elected members drawn from a prescribed ‘pool’; the nominated members are –

 

Councillor Leech

Councillor Stone

Councillor Evans

Councillor Reid

Councillor Strong

Councillor Rawlins

Councillor N Ali

Councillor Watson

 

Constitutional and Nomination Committee (10 members)

 

Councillors -

Curley	Karney (Chair)	Lanchbury	Leech	Leese
N Murphy	S Murphy	Razaq	Reeves

 

Health and Wellbeing Board

 

1.         To recommend membership as follows:

 

Councillor Richard Leese, Leader of the Council (Chair)

Councillor Craig, Executive Member for Adults (MCC)

Councillor Sue Murphy, Executive Member for Public Service Reform (MCC)

Councillor Bridges, Executive Member for Children’s Services (MCC)

Dr Ruth Bromley, Chair Manchester Health and Care Commissioning

Dr Denis Colligan, GP Member (North) Manchester Health and Care Commissioning

Dr Murugesan Raja GP Member (Central) Manchester Health and Care

Commissioning

Dr Claire Lake Member (South) Manchester Health and Care Commissioning

Kathy Cowell, Chair, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Jim Potter, Chair, Pennine Acute Hospital Trust

Rupert Nichols, Chair, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Mike Wild, Voluntary and Community Sector representative

Vicky Szulist, Chair, Healthwatch

Dr Tracey Vell, Primary Care representative - Local Medical Committee

Paul Marshall, Strategic Director of Children’s Services

David Regan, Director of Public Health

Bernadette Enright, Director of Adult Social Services

Dr Angus Murray-Browne, South Manchester GP federation

Dr Vish Mehra, Central Primary Care Manchester

Dr Amjad Ahmed, Northern Health GP Provider Organisation

 

2.         To also recommend that Council approves that Health and Wellbeing Board member organisations can appoint a named substitute.