Agenda item

The Committee considered a report of the Head of Legal and Democratic Services and Monitoring Officer which presented the Annual Report of the Standards Committee for 2020/2021 (for copy see file of Minutes).

The report provided an overview of the work carried out during 2020/2021 and set out the future direction which the Committee intended to take during 2021/2022.

Councillor Tinsley made reference to the proposed change to the way complaints were recorded for future reporting. Complaints had historically been recorded as one complaint irrespective of the number of members subject to the complaint and it was proposed that this figure would be broken down further in future reports. The Councillor emphasised the need to highlight this change as it would appear as a spike in the number of complaints received when compared to the previous year’s figures. The Governance Solicitor confirmed that the change in the recording system would be explained in future reporting.

Resolved:

That

a)   the Annual Report for 2020/2021 be noted;

b)   the report be presented to the Council meeting in July 2021.