The report of the City Solicitor is enclosed.

The Committee considered the report of the City Solicitor that made recommendations to Council about the size and composition of the Council’s Committees and to appoint chairs and deputy chairs.

 

Decision

 

To recommend that Council:

 

1.      Agree the size the Council’s Committees and the appointment of members to serve on the various committees listed below.

2.      Agree the appointment of members to serve as chairs of scrutiny committees and chairs of non-executive committees.

3.      Agree the appointment of Councillor Andrews for the purpose of answering questions at Council on the work of the Standards Committee, in accordance with Article 9 of the Council Constitution.

 

Membership of Committees 2022/23 and Appointment of Chairs of Committees

 

Chairs and Deputies

 

Scrutiny Committees:

 

Young People and Children	Councillor Reid
Communities and Equalities	Councillor Hitchen
Economy	Councillor Johns
Resources and Governance	Councillor Simcock
Environment and Climate Change	Councillor Shilton-Godwin
Health	Councillor Green

 

Chairs and deputy chairs of the non-executive committees for the next municipal year:

 

Committee	Chair	Deputy Chair
Audit[SH1]
Planning & Highways	Councillor Curley
Licensing and Appeals	Councillor Grimshaw	Councillor Connolly
Licensing Committee	Councillor Grimshaw	Councillor Connolly
Licensing Policy	Councillor Grimshaw	Councillor Connolly
Constitutional and Nomination	Councillor Karney
Personnel	Councillor Akbar

 

Membership of Committees

 

Scrutiny Committees

 

Children and Young People (at least 10 members)

 

Councillors -

Abdullatif	Alijah	Amin	Bano	Cooley
Gartside	Good	Hewitson	Judge	Lovecy
Reid (Chair)	Sadler	Sharif Mahamed

 

Co-opted Members

Representative of the Diocese of Manchester – Vacant*

Representative of the Diocese of Salford – Mrs Julie Miles*

Parent governor representative – Dr Walid Omara*

Parent governor representative - Gary Cleworth*

Parent governor representative - Katie McDaid*

 

Secondary sector teacher representative – Saba Iltaf

Primary sector teacher representative – Laura Smith

* denotes members with voting rights on education matters

 

Communities and Equalities (at least 10 members)

 

Councillors -

Azra Ali	Benham	Chambers	Connolly	M. Dar
Evans	Hilal	Hitchen (Chair)	Hussain	Iqbal
Johnson	Ogunbambo	H Priest	Rawson	Whiston
Wills	Wilson

 

Environment and Climate Change (at least 10 members)

 

Councillors -

Chohan	Doswell	Holt	Hughes	Ilyas
Jeavons	Lyons	Nunney	Razaq	Sheikh
Shilton-Godwin (Chair)	Wright

 

Economy (at least 10 members)

 

Councillors -

Bayunu	Bell	Good	Johns (Chair)	Moran
Noor	Raikes	I Robinson	Taylor

Health (at least 10 members)

 

Councillors -

N Ali	Appleby	Curley	Green (Chair)
Johnson	Karney	Mchale	Newman	Reeves
Riasat	Richards	Russell	Wheeler

 

Resources and Governance (at least 10 members)

 

Councillors -

Andrews	Davies	Good	Kirkpatrick	Lanchbury
B. Priest	Rowles	A Simcock (Chair)	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.

Councillors -

Akbar	Bridges	Craig	Midgely	Johnson
Rawlins	White	Rahman	T Robinson	Igbon
Hacking	7 x Co-opted

 

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

 

Councillors -

Curley	Flanagan	Good	Lanchbury	Russell
Simcock	Wheeler
Dr D Barker (Co-opted member)	Mr S Downs (Co-opted member)

 

Planning and HighwaysCommittee (up to 15 members)

 

Councillor

Andrews	Shaukat Ali	Baker-Smith	Curley (Chair)	Y. Dar
Davies	Flanagan	Hitchen	Kamal	Leech
Lovecy	Lyons	Riasat	Richards	Stogia

Licensing and AppealsCommittee (not less than 10 and not more than 15)

 

Councillors -

Evans	Grimshaw (Chair)	Hughes	Jeavons	Hewitson
Judge	Connolly (Deputy Chair)	Andrews	Hassan	Reid
Flanagan	Riasat

 

Licensing Committee (not less than 10 and not more than 15)

 

Councillors -

Evans	Grimshaw (Chair)	Hughes	Jeavons	Hewitson
Judge	Connolly (Deputy Chair)	Andrews	Hassan	Reid
Flanagan	Riasat

 

Licensing Policy Committee (up to 6)

 

Councillors -

Rawlins

Davies

Grimshaw (Chair)

Flanagan

Leech

Evans

 

Standards Committee (6 members of the Council, 1 Ringway Parish Councillor and 2 Independent members[SH2] )

 

Councillors -

Andrews	Evans	Connolly	Lanchbury	A Simcock
Nunney
Nicole Jackson (Co-opted Independent Chair)	Parish Councillor Christopher O’Donovan (Ringway PC)	Geoff Linell (Co-opted Independent)	[SH3]

 

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 (Finance and Human Resources*) and such opposition group representation as is necessary to meet political balance requirements.

 

 

Councillors -

Akbar	Bridges	Craig	Rawlins	Leech
Midgely	Rahman	Hacking	White
Stanton*	T Robinson	Igbon

 

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 Evans

·                Councillor Reid

·                Councillor N Ali

·                Councillor Cooley

·                Councillor Connolly

·                Councillor Shilton-Godwin

·                Councillor Wheeler

 

Constitutional and Nomination Committee (10 members)

 

Councillors -

Curley	Karney (Chair)	Lanchbury	Richards	Leech
Flanagan	Rahman	Reeves	Craig

 

Health and Wellbeing Board

 

To recommend membership as follows:

• (Leader of the Council) (Chair)
• (Executive Member for Health and Social Care) (MCC)
• (Executive Member for Early Years Children and Young People) (MCC)
• Dr Ruth Bromley, Chair Manchester Health and Care Commissioning
• Katy Calvin-Thomas - Manchester Local Care Organisation
• Kathy Cowell, Chair, Manchester University NHS Foundation 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 Murugesan Raja Manchester GP Forum
• Dr Geeta Wadhwa Manchester GP Forum
• Dr Doug Jeffrey, Manchester GP Forum
• Dr Shabbir Ahmad Manchester GP Forum (substitute member)
• Dr Denis Colligan, Manchester GP Forum (substitute member)

 

Appointment of Lead Members

 

LGBT Men's Lead                          Councillor Wills

LGBT Women's Lead                    Councillor Baker-Smith

Race                                                  Councillor Hussain

City Centre                                       Councillor Karney

Disability                                           Councillor Curley/ Councillor Flanagan

Age Friendly Manchester            Councillor Newman

Women                                              Councillor Lynch/ Councillor Chambers

Active Travel                                   Councillor Shilton Godwin

Mental Health Champion             Councillor Douglas

Race Women                                   Councillor Igbon

Trauma Informed                            Councillor Doswell