THE number of complaints made against Derby city councillors in the last financial year shot up to 13 – from just one in the previous 12 months.
But only one of the 13 complaints in that time was upheld.
Derby City Council said the name of the councillor involved was confidential.
In March, this year, Tory councillor Philip Hickson said the council's standards committee had upheld a complaint against Labour councillor Ranjit Banwait, who is now council leader.
The comment was made at a council meeting following Mr Banwait's apology for a "political analogy" he made referring to domestic violence in September 2013.
He had said: "Can you imagine being married to a Liberal Democrat and incurring some domestic violence?
"One minute everything's all right, the next minute you get walloped around the head with a saucepan, next minute councillor [Les] Allen comes over and says please, I'm really sorry, let me take you to hospital."
In apologising, he said: "Sometimes in the cut and thrust of the chamber, the wrong words are said. I regret what I said and I do apologise."
Two of the 13 complaints in 2013-14 were made by other councillors. Four complaints about councillors were received in 2011-12.
