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DECLARATIONS OF INTERESTS
Meeting: 06/06/2018 - Grants Determination (Cabinet) Sub-Committee (Item 2.)
2. DECLARATIONS OF INTERESTS PDF 67 KB
Decision:
Councillor Asma Begum declared interests in agenda items 7.6, MSG Extension Report and 7.7, MSG Quarterly Monitoring Update 2018-19 and Rent in respect of the recommendations regarding the Tower Hamlets Youth Sports Foundation. This was on the basis that:
· Her spouse was formerly a trustee of the THYSF. However he had stood down from the Board
· Her daughter attended an afterschool provision supplied by THYSF.
Councillor Begum did not take participate in the discussion or decisions relating to these items.
Councillor Marc Francis, Chair of the Grants Scrutiny Sub – Committee also declared that he had a disclosable non – pecuniary interest in the following agenda items as his partner Councillor Rachel Blake was the Deputy Mayor for Regeneration and Air Quality:
· 7,1, Tower Hamlets Affordable Housing Grant Programme - Burdett Road (Mulberry House).
· 7.2, TH Affordable Housing Grant - continuous market engagement (George Green Almshouses)
· 7.4, SME Energy Reduction Grants Programme.
· 7.5, Historic Buildings Grant - Oxford House.
Councillor Francis advised that due to this interest, he did not participate in the discussion on these items at the Grants Scrutiny Sub – Committee meeting on Monday 4th June 2018 but he would report their comments to the Grants Determination Sub-Committee in respect of these items.
The Mayor declared a personal interest in item 7.5 Historic Buildings Grant - Oxford House, in that he had been involved at the initiation of the project to preserve historic buildings.