The Team Leader (Contentious and Corporate Governance) introduced a report setting out details of complaints received under the Members’ Code of Conduct during the period 1 September 2022 to 28 February 2023.  It was noted that five new complaints had been received during this period.  Two of the complaints had been concluded with no breach of the Code established.  The remaining three complaints were currently being considered by the Monitoring Officer.

In response to questions, the Team Leader (Contentious and Corporate Governance) undertook to consider how this information might be presented in future reports to the Committee to provide more context and to enable trends and further training needs to be identified without compromising anonymity.

RESOLVED:  That the report be noted.