Transparency of All Member Fees and Allowances for All External Bodies for 2024/2025 and Annually Thereafter (part 16 of 25)

And that's 7b, which is no recommendation to the code but self -inclusion to register could be an option required as it has been previously. The committee may or may not choose to include a steer on the matter under its agreement to provide general advice or guidance on ethical standards. My recommendation is we do provide a steer. We ask the officers to remind councillors that they should think about transparency and they should perhaps include it as a self -declaration. C is the committee could choose to wait for the outcome of the government's review into local standards and the potential mandatory minimum code of conduct. At the point of implementing any required change, the committee could then choose to amend the code as required. I think this is the option where we say, well, let's wait for the government to come back with a code of conduct, which might happen in the next 6 to 12 months, and at which point we'll have to follow their mandatory conduct. But I think that could be sort of, we could see what happens in December. Then as the amended motion suggests, there may be no mandatory changes to the code recommended, but the committee could ask the monitoring officer to consider other methods of achieving transparency. This could be achieved in various ways, such as linking to allowances slash expenses paid by outside bodies on our website or another mechanism. This is where we sort of talked about how we could go away. The mandatory council would come back and see, talk about putting links onto individual councillor website profiles or a general website, which could be, you know, come up in any Google or AI searches. Then there is E, which is members may recommend amending the code as described in the original motion to make it an obligation for members to declare the monetary value for allowances slash expenses received from outside bodies on their register of interest. This could be achieved by recommending an amendment to the code of conduct. Subsequently, this would then be referred to the full council for their consideration. Now, that, again, I'm saying, let's go back, utilise the time in December, get the monitoring officer to give us her recommendation, perhaps with wording, if we were to go down that route, and then we can come back and debate whether we, you know, include a few words or include more words or redraft, you know, particular paragraphs. So those are what I'm saying, well, let's try to find a compromise which addresses all our issues and concerns together. I know it's that quite a lot. OK. Councillor Dixon, the other Dixon. Please. Mr Chairman, I don't think that that summarises what's been said here.