Issue - meetings

[Note: The Leader left the meeting for this item and the Deputy Leader assumed the Chair. The item was considered as the last agenda item] 

Following the application of the public interest test it was RESOLVED pursuant to the Act referred to in minute no. 12 above not to publicise the content of the report as it contained exempt information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the Authority holding that information) (Paragraph 14 of Part 4 of Schedule 12A to the Act).

The public interest test in this matter related to the fact that the report contained detailed information about the business and financial affairs and ambitions of the applicants. In this case, the public interest in maintaining the above exemption under the 1972 Act in respect of this report outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information contained therein, as disclosure would likely place the person and business name in the report at an unfair disadvantage in relation to their commercial competitors. 

The Executive Board considered an application for assistance from the Arfor Innovation Fund. The priority of the fund was to support business growth in areas with a high proportion of Welsh speakers and to generate more and better paid jobs to retain local people in those areas.

This application, which would normally have been determined at an Executive Board Decisions Meeting for the Leader had been referred to the Executive Board as the application had been submitted by a company owned by Councillor Aled Vaughan Owen who was also a fellow member of the Plaid Cymru Group.  Cllr. Dole had referred it to the Executive Board for determination although he had no specific interest in the matter.

UNANAMOUSLY RESOLVED that the application for assistance from the Arfor Innovation Fund by Ynni Da for the sum of £1,535.04 be approved, subject to the usual terms and conditions and those specified in the report.