Agenda

Oxfordshire Growth Board

Friday 30 October 2020 at 2.00 pm

Virtual meeting viewable by a weblink

From 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021, the Oxfordshire Growth Board meetings are managed by Vale of White Horse District Council.

Contact: Kevin Jacob, Growth Board Democratic Services Officer

E-mail: democratic.services@oxfordshiregrowthboard.org

Telephone: 01235 422191

Website: www.oxfordshiregrowthboard.org

Members

Leader of South Oxfordshire District Council	Councillor Sue Cooper
Leader of Vale of White Horse District Council (which holds the Chair)	Councillor Emily Smith
Leader of Cherwell District Council	Councillor Barry Wood
Leader of Oxford City Council	Councillor Susan Brown
Leader of Oxfordshire County Council	Councillor Ian Hudspeth
Leader of West Oxfordshire District Council	Councillor James Mills
Chairman of OxLEP	Jeremy Long
Vice-Chairman and Skills Board representative	Adrian Lockwood
Universities representative	Professor Alistair Fitt
OxLEP business representative - Bicester	Miranda Markham
OxLEP business representative – Oxford City	Peter Nolan
OxLEP business representative – Science Vale	Angus Horner
Homes England representative	Catherine Turner
Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group	Dr Kiren Collison
Environment Agency representative	Emma Hill

Notes:

The meeting will be web streamed. Please see the note at http://democratic.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=543&MId=2820on how to observe the meeting.

One member, one vote for each constituent local authority member only.

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1.	Apologies for absence; declarations of interest and Chair's announcements

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Public participation

Asking a question and addressing the Board

Questions or requests to make an address (in full and in writing) must be received by 5pm on Monday 26 October 2020.

Questions and addresses should be no longer than one side of A4 paper in Ariel 12 font. The address or question will be circulated to the Panel and public speakers will be invited to speak at the virtual meeting, subject to technical arrangements being in place. Written submissions may also be read out by the Chair or Democratic Services Officer where requested or if the person making the request for public speaking is not able to attend the meeting. A response may be given at the meeting or a written answer supplied. The Chair will have discretion to manage the public participation procedure as they see appropriate.

Questions and notice of addresses must be submitted to democratic.services@oxfordshiregrowthboard.org

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Growth Board Scrutiny Panel update (To Follow)

To receive any recommendations from the Growth Board Scrutiny Panel meeting held on 21 October 2020.

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Oxfordshire Strategic Vision (To Follow)

For action: To consider endorsing an approach for setting a Strategic Vision for Oxfordshire.

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Oxford to Cambridge Arc Economic Prospectus Update (Pages 5 - 28)

For action: To consider endorsing the Oxford to Cambridge Arc Economic Prospectus as submitted to HM Government.

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Dates of next meetings

The dates of future Growth Board meetings are below. Please refer to
https://www.oxfordshiregrowthboard.org/meetings/ for the most up to date information.

· 24 November 2020

· 26 January 2021

· 22 February 2021 (added)

· 23 March 2021

· 8 June 2021

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Councillors’ duties on declaring interests

General duty

You must declare any disclosable pecuniary interests when the meeting reaches the item on the agenda headed “Declarations of Interest” or as soon as it becomes apparent to you.

What is a disclosable pecuniary interest?

Disclosable pecuniary interests relate to your* employment; sponsorship (ie payment for expenses incurred by you in carrying out your duties as a councillor or towards your election expenses); contracts; land in the council’s area; licences for land in the council’s area; corporate tenancies; and securities. These declarations must be recorded in each councillor’s register of interests which is publicly available on the council’s website.

Declaring an interest

Where any matter disclosed in your register of interests is being considered at a meeting, you must declare that you have an interest. You should also disclose the nature as well as the existence of the interest. If you have a disclosable pecuniary interest, after having declared it at the meeting you must not participate in discussion or voting on the item and must withdraw from the meeting whilst the matter is discussed.

Member’s Code of Conduct and public perception

Even if you do not have a disclosable pecuniary interest in a matter, the Councillors’ Code of Conduct says that a member “must serve only the public interest and must never improperly confer an advantage or disadvantage on any person including yourself” and that “you must not place yourself in situations where your honesty and integrity may be questioned”. What this means is that the matter of interests must be viewed within the context of the code as a whole and regard should continue to be paid to the perception of the public.

*Disclosable pecuniary interests that must be declared are not only those of the member her or himself but also those of the member’s spouse, civil partner or person they are living with as husband or wife or as if they were civil partners.

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