“While members of the committee are not able to quote from the report, it seems council officers and the leader are doing so. This is not acceptable.
“Please could you indicate to me where in the papers which are publicly available these sections come from, or if that is not the case, I would like to raise a complaint against Councillor Count for breaching confidentiality.”
I understand the audit committee agreed in principle on Friday to issue a statement that was ‘signed off’ by the chairman the following day, prior to its release.
The committee discussed broader recommendations on farms tenancies but lawyers advised councillors to keep the bulk of the report, which dealt with former councillor Roger Hickford, out of the public domain.