Anticipated reasons for restriction

By virtue of paragraph(s) 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.

Explanation of Reasons

• By Virtue of Paragraph 3

  Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

  Condition:

  Information is not exempt if it is required to be registered under-

  • The Companies Act 1985
  • The Friendly Societies Act 1974
  • The Friendly Societies Act 1992
  • The Industrial and Provident Societies Acts 1965 to 1978
  • The Building Societies Act 1986 (recorded in the public file of any building society, within the meaning of the Act)
  • The Charities Act 1993

  Information is exempt to the extent that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

  Information is not exempt if it relates to proposed development for which the local planning authority may grant itself planning permission pursuant to Regulation 3 of the Town & Country Planning General Regulations 1992(a).

Reason restricted justification

a. Please explain why 28 days’ notice of the decision was not provided.

In June 2017 Cabinet agreed the recommendation to include Southwark in the Shared ICT Service, including the delegation to the Strategic Director of Resources of the agreement of the final terms. Legal advice has been given that this is also a key decision, and as the target timescale for the agreement is the end of September 2017, it is now not possible to give 28 days' notice.

b. Please explain why it is impractical to defer the decision to allow the required notice to be provided on the Forward Plan.

The decision needs to be made well in advance of the commencement date of the new Inter Authority Agreement, which is 01/11/2017.