“Front Office” – End of 2010 Update

It has been a while since I or any local blogger has published stats for individual Councillors’ use of the Council’s “Front Office” case logging system. As I have said before, some Councillors use the system more than others but its use is encouraged. The previous list I published is here.

This list is for the 8 months from May to December (incl) and therefore all Councillors are pretty much on the same basis as most take the first week of May off in order to campaign:

                        Conservative

                         Cllr Tom Steele (Kentwood) – 61

                         Cllr Isobel Ballsdon (Thames) – 53

                         Cllr Tom Stanway (Caversham) – 45

                         Cllr Richard Willis (Peppard) – 45

                         Cllr Mark Ralph (Peppard) – 32

                         Cllr Andrew Cumpsty (Caversham) – 27

                         Cllr Wazir Hussain (Park) – 26

                         Cllr Tim Harris (Church) – 17

                         Cllr Jenny Rynn (Kentwood) – 11

                         Cllr Dave Luckett (Caversham) – 9

                         Cllr Jeanette Skeats (Thames) – 8

                         Cllr Fred Pugh (Mapledurham) – 7

                         Cllr Emma Warman (Kentwood) – 7

                         Cllr David Stevens (Thames) – 3

                         Cllr Jamie Chowdhary (Peppard) - 3

                         Cllr Azam Janjua (Church) – 3

                         Cllr Mike Townend (Church) – 3

                         Lib Dem

                         Cllr Gareth Epps (Katesgrove) – 92

                         Cllr Daisy Benson (Redlands) – 55

                         Cllr Kirsten Bayes (Redlands) – 38

                         Cllr Glenn Goodall (Redlands) – 34                        

                         Cllr Ricky Duveen (Tilehurst) – 32

                         Cllr Peter Beard (Tilehurst) – 19

                         Cllr Chris Harris (Tilehurst) – 17

                         Cllr Rebecca Rye (Katesgrove) – 13

                         Cllr Warren Swaine (Katesgrove) – 10

                         Labour

                         Cllr Tony Page (Abbey) – 106

                         Cllr John Ennis (Southcote) – 78

                         Cllr Rachel Eden (Whitley) – 76

                         Cllr Bet Tickner (Abbey) – 49

                         Cllr John Hartley (Park) – 46

                         Cllr Jo Lovelock (Noroct) – 44

                         Cllr Mike Orton (Whitley) – 33

                         Cllr Deborah Edwards (Southcote) – 31

                         Cllr Gul Khan (Battle) – 28

                         Cllr Pete Ruhemann (Southcote) – 27

                         Cllr Paul Gittings (Minster) – 20

                         Cllr Marion Livingstone (Minster) – 11

                         Cllr Sarah Hacker (Battle) – 9

                         Cllr Graeme Hoskin (Norcot) – 9

                         Cllr Deborah Watson (Minster) – 9

                         Cllr Mohammed Ayub (Abbey) – 8

                         Cllr Chris Maskell (Battle) – 8

                         Cllr Jim Hanley (Whitley) – 5

                         Cllr Peter Jones (Norcot) – 4

                         Green

                         Cllr Rob White (Park) – 467

Again each party has a spread of activity levels based on this one measure but as I predicted Cllr Rob White (Green) has flown straight to the top of the table. Although what he actually does to submit so many enquiries one can only speculate. I still find that a high percentage of my correspondence with constituents goes nowhere near the Front Office system and is dealt with directly with the constituent or relevant Council Officer.

As I have often stated this is just one measure of Councillor activity and it should be borne in mind that some wards generate less casework than others and there are more ways of serving our constituents than just entering (sometimes trivial) cases onto the Front Office system.

Once again, enjoy these stats!