FI14349

Request

  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 hea

Response

  1. The Monitoring Officer has received 16 complaints concerning Dover District Councillors over the last 5 years. For information, the Council in 2023 changed the way that the Monitoring Officer reported information relating to complaints to provide a more detailed breakdown of the complaints received and the outcome of the complaints - https://moderngov.dover.gov.uk/documents/s51978/FINAL%2022-23%20Appendix%20A%20-%20Annual%20Governance%20Report.pdf
  2. 2019/20 – 3, 2020/21 – 3, 2021/22 – 1, 2022/23 – 3, 2023/24 – 6
  3. Zero
  4. Zero
  5. Not applicable
  6. Not applicable
  7. Not applicable