Agenda item

The deadline for deputation requests for this meeting is Midnight, Thursday 28 June 2012.  Deputations can be emailed to constitutional.team@southwark.gov.uk.

Deputation requests will be distributed in a supplemental agenda.

(See pages 7 - 9 of supplemental agenda 2)

Deputation request on the closure of council-run children’s nurseries

This deputation was considered prior to the guillotine having fallen.

Council assembly considered whether to receive the deputation request on the closure of council-run children’s nurseries.

RESOLVED:

That the deputation be received.

The deputation’s spokesperson, Nikola Zahariey, addressed the meeting.

The deputation asked a question of Councillor Dora Dixon-Fyle, cabinet member for children’s services, who provided an oral response.

Councillors Graham Neale, Renata Hamvas, Paul Kyriacou, Andy Simmons, Michael Bukola and Catherine Bowman asked questions of the deputation.

Thereafter the deputation returned to their seats in the public seating area.

At this juncture Councillor Tim McNally, seconded by Councillor Anood Al-Samerai, moved a procedural motion to vary the order of business to allow motion 1 (see item 5.2) to be now considered.

The procedural motion was put to the vote and declared to be carried.  Please see item 5 elsewhere in the minutes.

Deputation request from the Walworth Society

Council assembly considered whether to receive the deputation request from the Walworth Society.

RESOLVED:

That the deputation be received.

The deputation’s spokesperson, Jeremy Leach, addressed the meeting.

The deputation asked a question of Councillor Peter John, leader of the council, who provided an oral response.

Councillors Anood Al-Samerai, Patrick Diamond, Catherine Bowman, Neil Coyle and Mark Gettleson asked questions of the deputation.

Thereafter the deputation returned to their seats in the public seating area.