The Director of Law, Governance and Strategy (Monitoring Officer) had submitted a report to advise the Committee of: 

·       The number and status of complaints received under the Members’ Code of Conduct which have been, or are to be, considered by the Director of Law, Governance and Strategy (in her statutory capacity as the authority’s Monitoring Officer) in consultation with one of the Council’s Independent Persons.  

·       The number of dispensations to an individual member, granted under Section 33 of the 2011 Localism Act, by the Monitoring Officer, following consultation with an Independent Person. 

Recommendation(s): That the Standards Committee resolves to: 

·       Note the updates to the Code of Conduct complaints received by the Monitoring Officer since the previous committee.