I HAVE three questions for local election candidates:

If you are elected to serve as a district councillor:

1. Will you at the earliest opportunity call for a published code of conduct for officers to be established, and clearly detailed within the constitution, transparently and openly available to public view?

2. Will you at the earliest opportunity call for Malvern Hills District Council parity with Wychavon in terms of public access to the council offices and services?

3. Will you at the earliest opportunity call for review by full council of the complaints process, in particular the ability of one officer to autonomously amend the complaints policy without reference to or seek authority of elected members, to designate members of the public as ‘unreasonable complainants’, to advise all officers to refrain from corresponding with or speaking with a designated ‘unreasonable complainant’, and to block the progress of complaints reaching the attention of the standards committee or overview and scrutiny committee?

Martin Lawrence

Malvern