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Proxy Voting at Council Meetings

To ask the Chief Executive to write to the Local Government Association requesting that it raises with Government the equality issue raised in this report and whether it should consider introducing this for local government meetings.

Decision type: Non-key - Low

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Decision due: 9 Oct 2019 by Civic Affairs

Department: Corporate Strategy

Contact: Gary Clift, Democratic Services Manager Email: Gary.Clift@cambridge.gov.uk.

Additional Information: This item will automatically appear on the agenda.

Background Information: At the last Committee (19/23/CIV) Councillor Katie Porrer submitted a written request for officers to investigate this issue of proxy voting at local authority committee meetings. This report answers that request.

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