Over the past year or so East Riding residents have witnessed a catalogue of failures by the Councillors at East Riding of Yorkshire Council (ERYC) that demonstrates that they have collectively, and to varying degrees, all failed to adhere to the most fundamental of the Nolan Principles:

“To challenge poor behaviour wherever it occurs.”

• At the start of 2020 the Ofsted Report highlighted the failure with Children Services.
• Last month the failure in Planning was laid bare
• In February 2020 the Pension Fund plummetted.
• Last week the leaked email demonstrated failures in Data Protection

None of these failures should have happened if all Councillors had challenged the poor behaviour of Officers and themselves. Evidence demonstrates this was not the case.

Clean Hands

During my time as an Independent ERYC Councillor between 2016 and 2019, I raised, and paper trailed my concerns with regards both Children Services and Planning. Sadly my fellow Councillors at the time failed to take on board the alarm bells I was raising and at best attempted to shoot the messenger. As direct consequence children were significantly let down and residents must accept houses imposed on them that should never have been built.

I will leave the ERYC disastrous incompetence with Employees Pension Fund for another day. I do question why the Pension Committee did not take the appropriate action in early February 2020 to safe guide the Pension Fund. Surely the warning bells could not have been any louder?

Data Protection

I duly raised the alarm on the inside regards Children Services and Planning. I personally took the required and obvious action prior to the Stock Market crash based on knowledge learnt from sitting on the ERYC Pension Committee. Yet all I have witnessed over the past year or so from ERYC Councillors is a blame game instead of accepting responsibility and taking appropriate action.

As a direct result of the recently leaked email, I now have similar concerns about Data Protection at ERYC as I did about Children Services, Planning and the Pension Fund.

All 67 ERYC Councillors (currently 65 with 2 pending elections) are Registered Data Controllers. This means they have full responsibility for Data held which means they must comply with the DPA and GDPR.

Given the recent performance of ERYC Councillors, my faith in them with Data Protection is understandably not great.

To ensure that my data is being stored with all Councillors correctly I have exercised my lawful right by submitting a Subject Access Request to them all.

Subject Access Request To Councillors

I have requested copy of all Data held of me/about me from:

1. Cllr Julie Abraham
2. Cllr Victoria Aitkin
3. Cllr Charlie Bayram
4. Cllr Linda Bayram
5. Cllr Kevin Beaumont
6. Cllr Jacob Birch
7. Cllr John Bovill
8. Cllr David Boynton
9. Cllr Richard Burton
10. Cllr Chad Chadwick
11. Cllr John Copsey
12. Cllr Nick Coultish
13. Cllr Philip Davison
14. Cllr Liam Dealtry
15. Cllr John Dennis
16. Cllr David Elvidge
17. Cllr Jane Evison
18. Cllr Caroline Fox
19. Cllr Bernard Gateshill
20. Cllr Terry Gill
21. Cllr Helen Green
22. Cllr Pauline Greenwood
23. Cllr Leo Hammond
24. Cllr Anne Handley
25. Cllr Kerri Harold
26. Cllr Lyn Healing
27. Cllr Denis Healy
28. Cllr Mike Heslop-Mullens
29. Cllr John Holtby
30. Cllr Shaun Horton
31. Cllr Barbara Jefferson
32. Cllr Barbara Jeffreys
33. Cllr David Jeffreys
34. Cllr Linda Johnson
35. Cllr Ros Jump
36. Cllr Micheal Lee
37. Cllr Paul Lisseter
38. Cllr Geraldine Mathieson
39. Cllr Chris Matthews
40. Cllr Gary McMaster
41. Cllr Mike Medini
42. Cllr Richard Meredith
43. Cllr Paul Nickerson
44. Cllr David Nolan
45. Cllr Tim Norman
46. Cllr Jonathan Owen
47. Cllr Viv Padden
48. Cllr Matt Rogers
49. Cllr David Rudd
50. Cllr Liz Sargeanston
51. Cllr Brian Skow
52. Cllr Pat Smith
53. Cllr Mike Stathers
54. Cllr Sue Steel
55. Cllr Margot Sutton
56. Cllr David Sykes
57. Cllr Felicity Temple
58. Cllr David Tucker
59. Cllr Andy Walker
60. Cllr Vanessa Walker
61. Cllr Ben Weeks
62. Cllr Kay West
63. Cllr Paul West
64. Cllr John Whittle
65. Cllr Nigel Wilkinson

Further Information

I encourage East Riding residents who have similar concerns to make their own lawful Subject Access Request.

Please read Subject Access Request – Your Right of Access for further information.