25.4 Gifts and hospitality

Councillors and officers should avoid receiving gifts or hospitality from anyone involved with a planning application. If gifts or hospitality are unavoidable, they should be kept to the minimum.

Under the members' code of conduct, gifts or hospitality worth more than £25 that are linked to being a councillor must be recorded in the register of interests within 28 days.

Officers should declare offers of gifts or hospitality in the council's hospitality book as soon as possible, whether they accept them or not. The book will be regularly reviewed by the monitoring officer.

Page last reviewed 24 Oct 2008