The Committee considered:
1) Whether Members of the press and public
should be excluded from the meeting of the Board during consideration of the
following item of business in accordance with subsection 4 of Section 100A of
the Local Government Act 1972 because it was likely that, in view of the nature
of the business to be considered, exempt information would be disclosed, being
information defined in Section 100 (1) and paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the
Local Government Act 1972; and
2) Whether the disclosure
of information was in the public interest, whether any relevant exemptions were
applicable and whether, when applying the public interest test and exemptions,
the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed that in disclosing
the information.
RESOLVED: That as, in all the circumstances
of the case, the public interest in
maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the
information, members of the press and public be excluded from the meeting
during consideration of the following items of business in accordance with
subsection 4 of Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 because it was
likely that, in view of the nature of the business, exempt information would be
disclosed , being information defined in Section 100 (1) and paragraph, 3 of
Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.