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