Gill Hawksworth,Alison Ewing and Linda Stone

摘要

Council members Gill Hawksworth,Alison Ewing and Linda Stone have asked us to publish the following in response to Mr Wood's statement.We wish to correct a point in the presidential statement of Mr Nicholas Wood.The Council governance handbook states that the role of the Officers is.-"(i)to meet prior to each Council meeting;(ii)to meet between Council meetings to deal with issues which require an urgent response or which concern new policy,and to take executive action for subsequent ratification by the Council;(iii)to appoint the chairmen and members of Council's committees and subcommittees(together with a Privy Council nominee on the Society's Council)."The Officers cannot,as suggested by Mr Wood,change policy.That is the sole prerogative of the Council.