Please telephone the Corporate and Community Services team to prepare a form for your signature before the meeting. Interests must be re-declared when the item is called. A declaration of interest under the Code of Conduct will be a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest, an Other Registrable Interest or a Non-Registrable Interest.  If the item directly relates to your interest you must declare the interest and leave the room for the item, save in the case of Other Registrable Interests or Non-Registrable Interests where you may first speak on the item as a member of the public if provision has been made for the public to speak.  If the matter does not directly relate to your interest but still affects it then you must consider whether you are affected to a greater extent than most people and whether a reasonable person would consider your judgement to be clouded, if you are then you must leave the room for the item (although you may speak as a member of the public if provision has been made for the public to speak) or, if you are not, then you can declare the interest but still take part).

NOTE: Appendices A to D (attached) provide responses to set questions that were sent to the panellists to seek their views prior to the publication of this agenda).

6:30PM:        Both Chair(s) will open their meetings of their respective Committees, run through the housekeeping items.

6:35PM:        Chair of Policy Development Committee of North Devon Council to introduce the group lead for dentistry, Councillor Patrinos of North Devon Council.

6:40PM:      Councillor Patrinos as Group Lead for the Policy Development Committee of North Devon Council will then outline the purpose of the special meeting and briefly explain why the subject is being scrutinised together with how the session will work.

6:50PM:      North Devon Council Policy Development Committee members: Chair of Policy Development Committee to invite members of the Committee to ask any follow up questions of the panellists.

7:15PM:        Torridge District Council External Overview and Scrutiny Committee members: Chair of External Overview and Scrutiny Committee to invite members of the Committee to ask any follow up questions of the panellists.

7:40 PM:     Both Chair(s) to suspend their Standing Orders to allow opportunity for the invited public to ask questions of the panellists.

8:20PM:      Actions/next steps to be agreed by the Committee.

8:30 PM:     Chair(s) will formally close their respective meetings.

Nil.