Please reply to:

 

 

Contact:

Karen Wyeth

 

Service:

Committee Services

 

Direct Line:

01784 446341

 

E-mail:

k.wyeth@spelthorne.gov.uk

 

Date:

14 October 2025

 

 

Notice of meeting

 

 

Standards Committee

 

 

Date:

 

Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Time:

 

7.00 pm

Place:

 

Council Chamber, Council Offices, Knowle Green, Staines-upon-Thames TW181XB

 

To the members of the Standards Committee

 

Councillors:

 

M. Hull (Vice-Chair)

M.M. Attewell

C. Bateson

 

J.R. Boughtflower

J. Button

D.L. Geraci

 

K.M. Grant

M.J. Lee

S.C. Mooney

 

 

Substitute Members: Councillors

S.A. Dunn, T. Burrell, A. Mathur and K.E. Rutherford

 

Councillors are reminded that the Gifts and Hospitality Declaration book will be available outside the meeting room for you to record any gifts or hospitality offered to you since the last Committee meeting.

 

Agenda

 

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1.  

Apologies and Substitutes

 

 

 

To receive any apologies for absence and notification of substitutions.

 

 

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2.  

Minutes

 

5 - 6

 

To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 11 June 2025.

 

 

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3.  

Disclosures of Interest

 

 

 

To receive any disclosures of interest from councillors in accordance with the Council’s Code of Conduct for members.

 

 

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4.  

Chair and Vice-Chair Positions on the Standards Committee

 

 

 

To receive a verbal update

 

 

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5.  

Update to Climate Change Working Group Terms of Reference

 

7 - 20

 

Committee is asked to:

 

1.    Approve the change in name of the ‘Climate Change Working Group’ to the ‘Climate and Nature Working Group’,

 

2.    Consider and approve the revised Terms of Reference set out in Appendix A; and

 

3.    Make a recommendation to Council to approve adoption of this into the Council’s Consitution.

 

 

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6.  

Review of the Members Code of Conduct (provisional)

 

21 - 26

 

This report seeks to inform and assure the Committee following a review of the Councillor code of Conduct in Part 5(a) of the Constitution.

 

 

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7.  

Changes to Contract Standing Orders

 

27 - 40

 

Approval is sought from the Committee for the proposed amendments to the Contract Standing Orders.

 

 

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8.  

Update on Standards Investigation

 

 

 

Report to follow

 

 

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