Meeting Details

The Chair to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's Public-I microsite (please click this link) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

Members are reminded they must declare all relevant  pecuniary and other registerable interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting.

If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.

If other registerable interests are declared a Member may speak on the matter only if members of the public are allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.    

If it is a ‘sensitive interest’, Members do not have to disclose the nature of the interest, just that they have an interest.

Information on the Local Government Association’s Model Councillor Code of Conduct is set out via http://bit.ly/3WtGQnN. This includes, at Appendix 1, an interests flowchart which provides a simple guide to declaring interests at meetings.  

To note the appointment by the City Council of the Committee and Chairman for the Municipal Year 2024/2025 as follows: -

Labour Group (11)

Councillor Jilly Bermingham

Councillor Diane Donaldson

Councillor Barbara Dring

Councillor Sam Forsyth  (Chair)

Councillor Ray Goodwin

Councillor Katherine Iroh

Councillor Ziaul Islam

Councillor Basharat Mahmood

Councillor Saddak Miah

Councillor Miranda Perks

Councillor Sybil Spence

Conservative Group (2)

Councillor Maureen Cornish

Councillor Adam Higgs

Liberal Democrat Group (1)

Councillor Penny Wagg

Green Party (1)

Councillor Julien Pritchard

The Committee is recommended to meet on the following Wednesdays at 1030 hours in the Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham B1 1BB: -

(i)        To note the membership of Sub-Committees A, B and C appointed by the City Council for the Municipal Year 2024/2025 as detailed below:

(ii)       Each Sub-Committee comprises 3 Members (with a quorum of 3) and will determine matters relating to The Licensing Act 2003, The Gambling Act 2005, Hackney Carriage Licences, Private Hire Licences and such other business as may be referred to them by the Director of Regulation and Enforcement Services.

                                (iii)      The Chair of the Licensing and Public Protection (Licensing Sub-Committee’s role is to chair the Licensing Sub-Committee meetings, deal with subsequent actions of appeals and assist in finding substitutes for Members as required.   

                                          Any Member nominated must have had formal training as set out in the Licensing Procedure Rules.

                     Licensing Sub-Committee A – Mondays (1000 hours)

                     Licensing Sub-Committee B – Tuesdays (1000 hours)

                                Licensing Sub-Committee C – Wednesdays (1000 hours)

To confirm and sign the Minutes of the meeting held on 14 May, 2024.