Complaints Against Councillors

1. In the last 5 years, how many complaints has the Council received against members of the council? Please break down by year.

3. How many were progressed to an investigation?

4. How many led to a standards hearing?

5. What were those complaints that led to a hearing?

6. How many were upheld?

7. What sanctions were imposed?

7. Please break the answers to 3-7 down by year or give dates for the investigations and hearings.

This information in response to all of the above requests is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means) because it is already publicly available within the Standards Annual Report for each year. Any full investigations are reported to the Committee for their determination. The minutes of which can be found on this democracy in Devon webpage.