196501-440580 FOI Monitoring Officer

I write to make a Freedom of Information request.

The information I request is as follows:

1. In the last 5 years how many complaints has your council received against members of the council?

2. Can you give the above figure broken down by year?

3. How many complaints were progressed to an investigation?

4. How many complaints led to some form of standards hearing?

5. In those cases that progressed to a standards hearing, what were the charges/allegations/complaints and how many of those were upheld/found to be proved against the councillor?

6. Where allegation were upheld/found to be proved, what sanctions, penalties or punishments were imposed?

7. Please can you break the answers to 3-6 down by year or give dates for the investigations and hearings?