The council might wish to employ a clerk, which might involve its considering confidential information relating to individual applicants.We will state in guidance the nature of issues in which it would not be appropriate for a parent council to get involved, which is an important element, and the need to respect the confidentiality of sensitive information to which a parent council might have to have regard in exercising its functions.The commitment to produce guidance on confidential issues is a matter of record as it was given when the minister appeared before the committee on 11 January and was repeated in his letter to the committee of 17 March...