Plymouth's 'busiest' councillors - top 10 with the most caseworkLabour average at 105 cases a year each while Conservatives have 38View 2 Images Cllr Tom Briars-Delve with new food waste vehicles (Image: Plymouth City Council)Nearly 5,000 local issues were reported by Plymouth councillors during 2025 with nine Labour councillors and one Independent in the top ten for level of casework activity. ‌Cllr Tom Briars-Delve (Lab, Stoke ), cabinet member for the environment and climate change, topped the chart “by quite some way”with 514 reported cases and Cllr Ray Morton (Lab, Honicknowle) was in second place with 267 cases. View 2 Images Average number of cases reported per councillor by political group. “No matter how busy we are with citywide policy, I try to make time for getting the basics right locally. The figures show that the 39 Labour councillors averaged at 105 cases each year, the eight Independents (before the recent defection to Reform of Drake councillor Steve Ricketts) 61 cases, the seven Conservatives averaged at 38 cases each, two Green councillors at 37 cases each and the one Liberal Democrat councillor 14 cases.

Source: Daily Mirror March 26, 2026 10:19 UTC