Agenda item

A)  Child Citizenship

It was moved by Councillor Sadiq,

Seconded by Councillor B Bains,

“This Council resolves to write to ask the Minister of Immigration to:

·  Remove the prohibitive barrier to child citizenship that is the wholly unacceptable £1,102 administrative fee for children registering as British citizens by reducing the fee to its basic administrative cost of £372;

·  Exempt looked after children from the fee in its entirety.”

It was moved by Councillor Kelly, as an amendment,

Seconded by Councillor Smith,

“This Council resolves to include child citizenship in its forward work programme for Education and Children’s Services Scrutiny Panel to assess the impact that it has on children in Slough and thenwrite to ask the Minister of Immigration to:

·  Remove the prohibitive barrier to child citizenship that is the wholly unacceptable £1,102 administrative fee for children registering as British citizens by reducing the fee to its basic administrative cost of £372;

·  Exempt looked after children from the fee in its entirety.”

The amendment was put to the vote with 7 votes for, 33 against and 1 abstention. The amendment to the motion was lost.

A prior request having been made for the record of the voting:

There voted for the original motion:

Councillors Ali, Anderson, B Bains, R Bains, Bedi, Brooker, Carter, Chaudhry, Cheema, Dar, Davis, Amarpreet Dhaliwal, Arvind Dhaliwal, M Holledge, N Holledge, Hussain, Kelly, Mann, Matloob, Minhas, Nazir, Pantelic, D Parmar, S Parmar, Plenty, Qaseem, Rana, Rasib, Sabah, Sadiq, A Sandhu, R Sandhu, Sarfraz, Shah, Sharif, Strutton, Swindlehurst, Usmani and Wright ...39

There voted against original motion:

None…………………………………….…………………………………………… 0

There abstained from voting:

Councillors Smith and The Worshipful The Mayor, Councillor Sohal ………... 2

The original motion was therefore carried.

Resolved –  This Council resolves to write to ask the Minister of Immigration to:

·  Remove the prohibitive barrier to child citizenship that is the wholly unacceptable £1,102 administrative fee for children registering as British citizens by reducing the fee to its basic administrative cost of £372;

·  Exempt looked after children from the fee in its entirety.

B)  First World War Centenary Celebrations

It was moved by Councillor Smith,

Seconded by Councillor Wright,

“This Council resolves to: -

Plan and, where necessary, fund appropriate centenary celebrations that mark the end of the First World War and the birth of modern industrial Slough, thereby:

• It will create a Committee, under a politically independent Chair, to coordinate and supplement the activities of Trust funds for the ongoing upkeep of Slough’s war memorials plus any other related commemorations being planned, or for which funds are being raised and/or allocated from Council budgets within the town for similar purposes.

• This Co-ordinating Committee should include a single representative from the Ruling Group, and the official Opposition Group of councillors plus a lead officer chosen by SBC’s SMT, as well as a representative from SEGRO, the British Legion, the Indian Ex-Serviceman’s Association, and any other military or medical charities, faiths or community and business groups in the town that it chooses to invite.”

It was moved by Councillor Swindlehurst, as an amendment,

Seconded by Councillor Hussain,

“This Council resolves to:-

Pplan and, where necessary, fund appropriate centenary celebrations that mark the end of the First World War and the birth of modern industrial Slough. , thereby:

·  It will create a Committee, under a politically independent Chair, to coordinate and supplement the activities of Trust funds for the ongoing upkeep of Slough’s war memorials plus any other related commemorations being planned, or for which funds are being raised and/or allocated from Council budgets within the town for similar purposes.

·  This Co-ordinating Committee should include a single representative from the Ruling Group, and the official Opposition group of councillors plus the lead officer chosen by SBC’s SMT, as well as a representative from SEGRO, the British Legion, the Indian Ex-Serviceman’s Association, and any other military or medical charities, faiths or community groups in the town that it choses to invite.”

The amendment was put to the vote with 38 votes for, 1 against and 1 abstention. The amendment to the motion was carried.

The amended motion was put to the vote and carried unanimously.

Resolved –  This Council resolves to plan and, where necessary, fund appropriate centenary celebrations that mark the end of the First World War and the birth of modern industrial Slough.