No-show Reform pair axed from committees

COUNCILLORS FAILED TO SHOW UP ENOUGH FOR ROLES DUE TO WORK ISSUES

- By EDDIE BISKNELL

TWO Derbyshire Reform councillors have been demoted from committee positions after they “didn’t realise the time commitment’

Cllr Richard Morgan and Cllr Charlotte Gates, both Reform councillors on Derbyshire County Council, have been dropped from the committees they sit on due to attendance issues.

County councillors receive a basic allowance of £12,972, with extra allowances for chairmen and vice chairmen of the authority and committees, cabinet members and support members, and leaders of the main opposition and other minority group leaders.

Records on the county council website show Cllr Morgan, who represents the Horsley division in Amber Valley, has only attended one meeting out of the six he was supposed to - the administration’s first full council on May 21.

He has been dropped from membership on the pension and invest-

ments committee and the audit committee, for which he did not receive additional allowances.