Comments on: Questions to the Cambridge City Council Executive - May 2010 http://www.rtaylor.co.uk/city-council-executive-may-2010-questions.html Cambridge, United Kingdom. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:40:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Richard Taylor http://www.rtaylor.co.uk/city-council-executive-may-2010-questions.html#comment-43392 Richard Taylor Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:11:40 +0000 http://www.rtaylor.co.uk/?p=3077#comment-43392 In a response to an FOI request I made for the draft minutes for the oral Q&A from the February 2010 Cambridge City Council meeting <a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/minutes_of_answers_to_oral_quest" rel="nofollow">Gary Clift the council's Democratic Services Manager wrote</a>: <blockquote>The matter of recording Oral Questions at Council Meetings will be recommended to the Civic Affairs Committee on 30 June and will make clear how this part of the Council Meeting will be minuted in future and, subject to Councillors agreeing this, will be effective from the Council Meeting on 22 July.</blockquote> Had I not taken notes and published the answers to the oral questions from the May 2010 meeting it looks as if there would have been no record. There will be no official record approved by councillors. In a response to an FOI request I made for the draft minutes for the oral Q&A from the February 2010 Cambridge City Council meeting Gary Clift the council’s Democratic Services Manager wrote:

The matter of recording Oral Questions at Council Meetings will be recommended to the Civic Affairs Committee on 30 June and will make clear how this part of the Council Meeting will be minuted in future and, subject to Councillors agreeing this, will be effective from the Council Meeting on 22 July.

Had I not taken notes and published the answers to the oral questions from the May 2010 meeting it looks as if there would have been no record. There will be no official record approved by councillors.

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