How often does you Councillor attend their meetings?

A table available on the Stoke-on-Trent City Council website highlights local councillors' attendance to meetings. It includes the following criteria:

Number of meetings Cllr was expected to attend
Number of meetings Cllr did attend
Number of meetings Cllr attended without expectation (i.e. for personal interest, extra research etc)

Of course, this is not the only piece of evidence that should be used to evaluate a Councillor's performance or quality of contribution to their ward. It is simply one source which can give you an idea of their attendance rates.

The table suggests 5 councillors had 100% attendance.

No Councillors failed to attend any meetings and the majority achieved over 70% attendance.

It should also be remembered some councillors serve part-time and have other work or family commitments or fallen ill.

Using the Council data, StokeElect2011 has comprised the following table to include a % attendance for each councillor with links to all the official data on attendance per Councillor as well as data regarding their apologies for absence at meetings.

Apologies for the skew-iff table. Blogger doesn't seem to agree with lots of numbers. They look in-line when constructing the post but change when published!

% Attendance Expected Attended Missed

Councillor Jean Edwards 17 29 5 24

Councillor David Sutton 27 37 10 27

Councillor Matt Wilcox 31 16 5 11

Councillor Roy Naylor 32 19 6 13

Councillor David Marfleet 33 9 3 6

Councillor Gavin Webb 33 3 1 2

Councillor Amjid Wazir 43 42 18 24

Councillor Michael Barnes 44 34 15 19

Councillor Zulfiqar Ali 50 12 6 6

Councillor Tom Reynolds 54 28 15 13

Councillor Jean Bowers 54 24 13 11

Councillor Melanie Baddeley 56 36 20 16

Councillor Margaret Barber 56 16 9 7

Councillor David Conway 58 33 19 14

Councillor Ross Irving 63 24 15 9

Councillor Bagh Ali 64 22 14 8

Councillor Sarah Hill 67 21 14 7

Councillor Pauline Joynson 67 15 10 5

Councillor Joanne Powell-Beckett 67 21 14 7

Councillor John Daniels 68 25 17 8

Councillor Michael Coleman 70 23 16 7

Councillor Mick Salih 70 23 16 7

Councillor Javid Najmi 71 34 24 10

Councillor Steven Batkin 71 14 10 4

Councillor Janine Bridges 71 14 10 4

Councillor Mark Davis 73 22 16 6

Councillor Mohammad Iqbal 73 11 8 3

Councillor Brian Ward 74 19 14 5

Councillor Joy Garner 75 53 40 13

Councillor Jeremy Dillon 76 21 16 5

Councillor Mervin Smith 78 18 14 4

Councillor Barbara Beeston 79 14 11 3

Councillor Megan Ryan 79 19 15 4

Councillor Abi Brown 80 20 16 4

Councillor Adrian Knapper 80 20 16 4

Councillor Rita Dale 82 17 14 3

Councillor Alan Rigby 83 18 15 3

Councillor Peter Kent-Baguley 83 24 20 4

Councillor Mark Wright 85 13 11 2

Councillor Randolph Conteh 86 22 19 3

Councillor Gwen Hassall 87 30 26 4

Councillor Paul Shotton 87 30 26 4

Councillor John Burgess 87 23 20 3

Councillor John Davis 88 33 29 4

Councillor Ellie Walker 89 18 16 2

Councillor Clive Brian 89 37 33 4

Councillor Terence Follows 90 21 19 2

Councillor Mick Bell 91 22 20 2

Councillor Majid Khan 93 28 26 2

Councillor Mohammed Matloob 93 14 13 1

Councillor Olwen Hamer 93 15 14 1

Councillor Kassem Al-Khatib 94 16 15 1

Councillor Duncan Walker 94 18 17 1

Councillor Hazel Lyth 95 19 18 1

Councillor Kieran Clarke 97 31 30 1

Councillor Tony Fradley 100 19 19 0

Councillor Debra Gratton 100 14 14 0

Councillor Mohammed Pervez 100 13 13 0

Councillor Ruth Rosenau 100 19 19 0

Councillor Denver Tolley 100 5 5 0