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 “Nottinghamshire County Council  calls upon the Government to make fair transitional state pension arrangements for all women born on or after 6^th April 1951, who have unfairly borne the burden of the increase to the State Pension Age (SPA) with lack of appropriate notification.

 Hundreds of thousands of women, including many in Nottinghamshire, had significant pension changes imposed on them by the Pensions Acts of 1995 and 2011 with little or no personal notification of the changes.  Some women had only two years’ notice of a six year increase to their State Pension Age.

Many women born in the 1950s are living in hardship.  Retirement plans have been shattered with devastating consequences.  Many of these women are already out of the labour market, caring for elderly relatives, providing childcare for grandchildren, or suffer discrimination in the workplace so struggle to find employment.  Women born in this decade are suffering financially.  These women have worked hard, raised families and paid their tax and national insurance with the expectation that they would be financially secure when reaching 60.

 It is not the pension age itself that is in dispute – it is widely accepted that women and men should retire at the same time.  The issue is that the rise in the women’s state pension age has been too rapid and has happened without sufficient notice being given to the women affected, leaving women with no time to make alternative arrangements.

 Nottinghamshire County Council calls upon the Government to reconsider transitional arrangements for women born on or after 6^th April 1951, so that women do not live in hardship due to pension changes they were not told about until it was too late to make alternative arrangements.”

 Councillor Alice Grice                   Councillor Joyce Bosnjak

 “Nottinghamshire County Council is against the introduction of Grammar Schools as it would entrench privilege and there is no evidence that they increase social mobility.

 The introduction of Grammar Schools would introduce divisive selection. We need an inclusive, strategically planned school system that enables every child to thrive, learn and prosper. 

Nottinghamshire County Council needs to be able to play a full part in providing good schools where and when they are needed in Nottinghamshire.

 This Council will write to the Secretary of State for Education and the Prime Minister urging them not to introduce Grammar Schools in Nottinghamshire.”

 Councillor Kate Foale                   Councillor Ken Rigby

(A)   For Councillors

(1)    Members will be informed of the date of their Group meeting for Council by their Group Researcher.

(2)    The Chairman has agreed that the Council will adjourn for lunch at their discretion.

(3)    (a)    Persons making a declaration of interest should have regard to the Code of Conduct and the Procedure Rules for Meetings of the Full Council.  Those declaring must indicate whether their interest is a disclosable pecuniary interest or a private interest and the reasons for the declaration.

         (b)    Any member or officer who declares a disclosable pecuniary interest in an item must withdraw from the meeting during discussion and voting upon it, unless a dispensation has been granted.  Members or officers requiring clarification on whether to make a declaration of interest are invited to contact the Monitoring Officer or Democratic Services prior to the meeting.

         (c)    Declarations of interest will be recorded and included in the minutes of this meeting and it is therefore important that clear details are given by members and others in turn, to enable Democratic Services to record accurate information.

(4)    At any Full Council meeting except the annual meeting, a special meeting and the budget meeting, Members are given an opportunity to speak for up to three minutes on any issues which specifically relates to their division and is relevant to the services provided by the County Council.  These speeches must relate specifically to the area the Member represents and should not be of a general nature.  They are constituency speeches and therefore must relate to constituency issues only.  This is an opportunity simply to air these issues in a Council meeting.  It will not give rise to a debate on the issues or a question or answer session.  There is a maximum time limit of 30 minutes for this item.

(5)    Members are reminded that petitions can be presented from their seat with a 1 minute time limit set on introducing the petition.

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        50 - The Member has spoken for more than 10 minutes

        52 - The Member is not speaking to the subject under discussion

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        60 - Points of Order and Personal Explanations

        79 - Disorderly conduct

(8)    Time limit of speeches

        Motions

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        Constituency Issues

        24 - up to 30 minutes allowed

        Petitions

        27 - up to one minute allowed

        Questions to Committee Chairmen

        32 - up to 60 minutes allowed

        Adjournment Debates

        74 - Mover has up to 5 minutes

        75 - any other Councillor has up to 3 minutes

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