Councillors' Interests
Register of Interests
All councillors must register financial and other interests that could potentially conflict with their role as a local councillor.
This register is a public document and can be viewed at the Council Offices, Crescent Gardens, Harrogate, HG1 2SG during normal office hours. Please ask for Member Services on arrival. If you need advice beforehand, please contact the Member Services team, by telephone on 01423 556004 or by email to
membserv@harrogate.gov.uk
Declaration of Interests at Meetings
Councillors must declare their personal or prejudicial interests at meetings when they relate to business on that particular agenda.
Details of declared personal interests are recorded in the minutes of the meeting.
Once declared, the councillor can remain in the meeting, take part in the debate and vote on the item of business.
Details of prejudicial interests don't have to be made public but a councillor must declare they have such an interest and then leave the meeting room when the item of business is discussed and voted on.
The exceptions to this are at planning or scrutiny meetings where the public also have the right to make representations, give evidence or answer questions.
But once a councillor has done this, they must leave the meeting room to allow the debate and vote to take place in their absence.
The various types of interest a councillor might need to declare are set out in the
council's constitution published on this website - please scroll down to Part 5, Members' Code of Conduct.
If you have any queries on councillors' interests in general, please do not hesitate to contact the Head of Legal and Democratic Services, at the Council Offices, Crescent Gardens, Harrogate, HG1 2SG, by telephone on 01423 556029 or email
peter.jordan@harrogate.gov.uk