questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that local authorities maintain an (a) independent and (b) impartial process for handling complaints made against councillors.
answerText: Current legislation requires local authorities to make arrangements to investigate allegations of breaching codes of conduct. These must include the involvement of an appointed independent person. The local authority is required to seek the views of this ...
heading: Councillors: Complaints