Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council

About this data:
- Attendance records are scraped monthly from council websites.
- Current data covers 27 January 2025 to 27 January 2026.
- Not all councils could be scraped.

Council Attendance Ranking

118 of 274 Councils

Councillors

Overall

84%

Average

81%

Median

85%

Perfect (100%)

Below 75%

Attendance trend by party

Conservative

Labour and Co-operative Party

Labour

Reform UK

Shows how party attendance has changed over time, from 3-year average to the most recent year.

Attendance by party

Conservative(26)

85%

Labour and Co-operative Party(10)

89%

Labour(7)

70%

Reform UK(1)

79%

Attendance distribution

90-100%

80-89%

70-79%

60-69%

Below 60%

Highest attendance

1
Councillor Simon Tagg
Conservative
100%
2
Councillor Jacqueline Brown
Labour and Co-operative Party
100%
3
Councillor David Grocott
Labour and Co-operative Party
100%

Lowest attendance

1
Councillor Simon Jones
Conservative
33%
2
Councillor Rebekah Lewis
Labour
38%
3
Councillor Annabel Lawley
Labour
38%

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#	Name	Party	Meetings	Attendance	Status
1	Councillor Simon Tagg	Conservative	19/19	100%	Good
2	Councillor Jacqueline Brown	Labour and Co-operative Party	25/25	100%	Good
3	Councillor David Grocott	Labour and Co-operative Party	20/20	100%	Good
4	Councillor David Hutchison	Conservative	38/38	100%	Good
5	Councillor Trevor Johnson	Conservative	23/23	100%	Good
6	Councillor John Tagg	Conservative	13/13	100%	Good
7	Councillor Jill Whitmore	Conservative	16/16	100%	Good
8	Deputy Mayor. Councillor Joan Whieldon	Conservative	34/35	97%	Good
9	Deputy Mayoress. Councillor Susan Beeston	Conservative	26/27	96%	Good
10	Councillor Joel Edgington-Plunkett	Labour and Co-operative Party	18/19	95%	Good
11	Councillor Mark Holland	Conservative	36/38	95%	Good
12	Councillor Stephen Sweeney	Conservative	30/32	94%	Good
13	Councillor Sheelagh Casey-Hulme	Labour	13/14	93%	Good
14	Councillor Nicholas Crisp	Conservative	25/27	93%	Good
15	Councillor Philip Reece	Labour	26/28	93%	Good
16	Councillor Gill Heesom	Conservative	24/26	92%	Good
17	Councillor Dave Jones	Labour and Co-operative Party	11/12	92%	Good
18	Councillor Gillian Williams	Labour and Co-operative Party	31/34	91%	Good
19	Councillor John Williams	Labour and Co-operative Party	32/35	91%	Good
20	Councillor Paul Northcott	Conservative	23/26	88%	Fair
21	Councillor Rupert Adcock	Conservative	18/21	86%	Fair
22	Councillor Sylvia Dymond	Labour and Co-operative Party	17/20	85%	Fair
23	Councillor Richard Gorton	Labour	22/26	85%	Fair
24	Councillor Jill Waring	Conservative	11/13	85%	Fair
25	Councillor Andrew Fear	Conservative	27/32	84%	Fair
26	Councillor Mike Stubbs	Labour and Co-operative Party	16/19	84%	Fair
27	Councillor Amy Bryan	Conservative	18/22	82%	Fair
28	Councillor Andrew Turnock	Conservative	13/16	81%	Fair
29	Councillor Lesley Richards	Labour and Co-operative Party	12/15	80%	Fair
30	Councillor Lynn Dean	Reform UK	11/14	79%	Fair
31	Councillor Paul Waring	Conservative	15/19	79%	Fair
32	Councillor Andrew Parker	Conservative	13/17	76%	Fair
33	Councillor Lilian Barker MBE	Conservative	19/26	73%	Low
34	Councillor Craig Skelding	Conservative	19/27	70%	Low
35	Councillor David Allport	Labour and Co-operative Party	13/19	68%	Low
36	Councillor Ruth Wright	Labour	16/24	67%	Low
37	Councillor Gillian Burnett -Faulkner	Conservative	21/32	66%	Low
38	Mayor - Councillor Robert Bettley-Smith	Conservative	11/17	65%	Low
39	Councillor Amanda Berrisford	Conservative	8/13	62%	Low
40	Councillor Andrew Fox-Hewitt	Labour	5/9	56%	Low
41	Councillor Ian Wilkes	Conservative	10/20	50%	Low
42	Councillor Annabel Lawley	Labour	8/21	38%	Poor
43	Councillor Rebekah Lewis	Labour	6/16	38%	Poor
44	Councillor Simon Jones	Conservative	3/9	33%	Poor