Complaints Statistics 1 April – 30 June 2020

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Complaints Statistics 1 April – 30 June 2020

Complaints carried forward from 2019-20

New Complaints

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Complaints carried forward from 2019-20

New Complaints

The report of the investigation of the complaint that started in October 2017 was submitted to the Standards of Conduct Committee on 19 June 2020. Two complaints remain on hold to avoid the risk of prejudice to police investigations. One complaint is under investigation.

The following Tables give information of complaints received in the first quarter of 2020. For an explanation of the Tables please refer to Section 3 of the Annual Report 2019-20

Table 1: Complaints received, source and admissibility (see last year comparison below)

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
Received	14
% by public	92.9%
% by Member	0%
% by Clerk of the Senedd	7.1%
% not admissible	85.7%
% admissibility not decided by period end	14.3%

Table 2: Reasons for inadmissibility

Table 3: further explanation of complaints found inadmissible due to insufficient substance to justify further investigation (criterion vi)

		Q1
5a	Insufficient evidence	0
5b	Standard of service	0
5c	Below registration threshold	1
5d	About Ministerial conduct	4
5e	About conduct in Siamber	0
5f	Expression of opinion	6
5g	Other	0

Table 4: complaints by subject matter

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
Conduct on social media	6
Misuse of resources	1
Standard of service	1
Failure to register	2
Outside remit	4
Other conduct	0
TOTAL	14

Not in writing (criterion i)

Not about conduct of identified Member (Criteria ii &iv)

Anonymous complaint or complaint not sufficiently identified (criterion iii)

Not within the time allowed (criterion v)

Insufficient evidence to justify further investigation (criterion vi)