The Standards Hearing Sub-Committee of Leicester Council was scheduled to meet on Tuesday 21 April 2026. The meeting's agenda included a review of the hearing procedure for complaints against councillors and a hearing concerning a specific complaint.

Hearing Procedure

The Sub-Committee was scheduled to consider a report from the Deputy Monitoring Officer regarding the procedure to be followed during hearings of complaints against councillors. The report was presented for the Sub-Committee to note.

Hearing of Deputy Monitoring Officer's Report into a Complaint Against Councillors

A significant item on the agenda was the hearing of the Deputy Monitoring Officer's report into Complaint Number 11/2025. This report was prepared to enable the Standards Hearing Sub-Committee to consider a complaint against a councillor. The complaint followed a decision made by the Standards Advisory Board on 9 February 2026.

The meeting was scheduled to consider this report in a private session. This was due to the report containing 'exempt' information, as defined by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985. The Sub-Committee was recommended to pass a resolution to exclude the press and public from this part of the meeting. This exclusion would be in accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, on the grounds that the public interest in maintaining the information as exempt outweighed the public interest in disclosing it. The specific paragraphs of Schedule 12A of the Act cited for this exclusion were Paragraph 1 (information relating to any individual), Paragraph 2 (information likely to reveal the identity of an individual), and Paragraph 7c (deliberations of a standards committee or sub-committee in reaching findings on matters referred under specific sections of the Local Government Act 2000).

The attendees for this meeting included Kamal Adatia, Michael Edwards, Amy Owen-Davis, Kalvaran Sandhu, Jessica Skidmore, and Simon Smith. Councillor Diane Cank, Mr Simon Smith (Independent Member), and Mr Edward Thompson (Independent Member) were listed as Members of the Committee. Jessica Skidmore is identified as the Governance Services Officer.