Issue - meetings

Members are Required to Intimate any Declarations of Interest or Transparency Statements in Respect of the Items on Today’s Agenda.

Sir Ian Wood intimated that he and Jennifer Craw had a connection to?item 3.3 (SeedPod Change Request) and 4.1 (SeedPod Change Request – Exempt Appendix) and?any issue affecting Opportunity North East (ONE),??in particular matters?relating to the Food Hub?and BioAberdeen and the new Energy Transition Zone (ETZ), which may arise during?this meeting, by virtue of them being Board Members of ONE,?BioAberdeen Ltd, Food Hub (NES) Ltd and ETZ. However,?having applied the objective test they did not consider that they had an interest to declare and would not be withdrawing from the meeting. This was because in practice, funding was allocated by agreement with government and in line with the tripartite agreement.

The Chairperson and Councillor Radley advised that they had a connection to item 3.2 (External Transportation Links to Aberdeen South Harbour – Progress Update) by virtue of them being Ward members for the area to which it related to, however,?having applied the objective test they did not consider that they had an interest to declare and would not be withdrawing from the meeting.

Members are Required to Intimate any Declarations of Interest or Transparency Statements in Respect of the Items on Today’s Agenda.