Disclosure Log
Freedom of Information request - Code of Conduct Investigations (FOI/6234)
Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 12 August 2025
Dear Requester,
Request FOI/6234
Further to your request received I confirm that the Council has now considered your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
It is a Nil Response to this FOI request. There were no formal investigations in the period specified.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting information on your council"s Code of Conduct investigations into councillors, for the financial years 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25 (taking the financial year from 1April to 31March.)
Nil Response
1. Published Reports or Online Links
Please provide the URLs or copies of any annual or quarterly reports published on your website that summarise Code of Conduct complaints, outcomes, and investigations for the above years. This may include Standards Committee reports, Monitoring Officer updates, or local governance summaries. (For this request, I am not interested in any Parish Council investigations / complaints).
Nil Response
2. Case-Level Investigation Data
For each individual complaint that was formally investigated (not just referred or dismissed at initial filter stage), please provide this data in a spreadsheet or CSV, one row per case:
• Financial Year
• Investigator Type
• Total Cost of case (£)
• Hours Charged in the case
• Outcome Type
Nil Response
• Investigator Type should be one of:
o Internal officer (e.g. MO/DMO)
o Reciprocal arrangement with another Council
o Independent freelancer
o Specialist agency (e.g. Hoey Ainscough)
o Law firm or solicitor (e.g. VWV, Wilkin Chapman Rollits, etc.)
o Other (please specify)
Nil Response
• Outcome Codes
Please include a basic outcome classification, such as:
o no breach
o informal resolution
o breach found
o referred to full Standards Committee, etc.
Nil Response
For example:
Year Investigator Type Total Cost Hours Outcome Type
2022/23 Freelancer £2,000 30 hrs Breach Upheld
2022/23 Specialist agency £1,800 12 hrs No breach
2023/24 Law firm £4,000 15 hrs Informal resolution
3. Nil responses
Please indicate if there is a nil response in any year, i.e. if there were no formal investigations.
4. Parishes or Town Councils – out of scope
Details of Parish / Town Council complaints which are referred to a District / Borough Council Monitoring Officer are not requested as part of this Freedom of Information Act request.
Confidentiality
Please do not disclose personal names of members, complainants, officers or investigators. Simply code anonymised cases for analysis.
This request is designed to enable analysis of who performs Code of Conduct investigations in practice, when external expertise is used, and at what cost. If any part of this request exceeds cost limits, please advise how it could be refined and I"d be happy to refine the scope.
We hope you find this information useful.
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Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information
Complaints and Information Team
Chief Executives Department
Nottinghamshire County Council
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