Publication of council minutes, votes, etc

Proposer
Floppy
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@Floppy edited democracy.md - about 10 years ago

Require all MPs to publish details of any meeting with any individual or group who is not a constituent.

Publish full minutes (or transcripts if available), audio recordings, and voting records from all local council meetings. Online publication should be performed within 24 hours. Software tools will be created to make this process simple.

Devolution

Devolve all legislative powers currently enjoyed by the Scottish Parliament to equivalent devolved Parliaments in England, Wales and (eventually) Northern Ireland. The UK Parliament to retain control over macro-economic, foreign, and defence policy.

Floppy

@Floppy - about 10 years ago

I suspect @PaulJRobinson may have something to add here, on the wording at least?

PaulJRobinson

@PaulJRobinson - about 10 years ago

It's already a requirement in order to gain Quality Council Status from NALC (National Association of Local Councils)

http://www.nalc.gov.uk/Toolkits/Quality_Status.aspx

but it isn't mandated. The reason being (I think) that it's relatively easy for larger town/parish councils with a paid and trained Clerk and other staff to do this, but the smallest Parish Councils (think Vicar of Dibley sat around the table in the village hall) may not have the time/resources to do this. I agree that they should but not every organisation has the resources and it may be onerous to place such a requirement upon them.

As far as District/Borough/Unitary/County councils are concerned, yes I think this is already mandatory, although I can't find a site stating as such.

with kind regards, Paul Robinson

about.me/pauljrobinson

On 4 February 2014 22:15, James Smith [email protected] wrote:

I suspect @PaulJRobinson https://github.com/PaulJRobinson may have

something to add here, on the wording at least?

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Floppy

@Floppy - about 10 years ago

OK, makes sense. The burden on small councils was why I included the bit about providing tools to do it. Democracy needs to be accountable at all levels, I believe, and that requires universal transparency.

PaulJRobinson

@PaulJRobinson - about 10 years ago

Ha or 👍 even!