Particularly recommended reading to all those majority party councillors at EDDC who think that there is no such thing as a conflict of interest just meddling Independent councillors making a mountain out of a molehill. And the Standards Committee which continues to drag its heels on this issue.
Well, the National Audit Office appears to side with the Independents – surprise, surprise.
East Devon Watch 
Once again, there is a LOT of interesting stuff in the detail…
1. A reference to a document saying how Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) should be run. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/386642/bis-14-1241-local-enterprise-partnership-LEP-national-assurance-framework.pdf I am not sure whether the Exmouth and Seaton Regeneration Partnerships are LEPs or something different, however the same ethical considerations would seem to apply and this document can therefore at a minimum be used as an indicator for how EDDC should behave as regards these Regeneration Partnerships.
According to this document, EDDC should…
“publish their arrangements for making, and recording decisions, and for ensuring that papers, decisions, minutes, agendas etc are published in line with existing local authority rules and regulations [access to information, Schedule 12A of the LGA 1972, as amended by the FOI 2000]”
Unfortunately, when it comes to EDDC, Regeneration Partnerships meetings are held in private, with confidential (i.e. secret) agendas, minutes, decisions etc.
I feel an FoI on this imminent….
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