Who Is The Busiest Tower Hamlets Councillor?

Just in time for the May elections we have some numbers for you to examine before you cast your vote.

Below you will see how many Members Enquiries (MEs) each councillor has submitted since 2018. An ME is simply a formal request by a councillor to Tower Hamlets Council for information.

You can read more analysis of this data on the website of Cllr (and Independent Mayoral candidate) Andrew Wood here Which councillors do the least work? and you can download the original data that Andrew has produced here.

Many thanks to Andrew yet again for doing this.

As Andrew points out this is looking at only one aspect of a councillor’s duties and is not a perfect indication of what they do, but Mole thinks it is a pretty good one.

And so on to the results! Drum roll please!

Overall results – Cllr Rabina Khan wins again

No surprise whatsoever that the busiest councillor in the borough is Shadwell councillor (and Liberal Democrat Mayoral candidate) Rabina Khan. As you can see she has a yearly average number of MEs of 551 and a total of 2,205 submitted.

And also it was predictable that Marc Francis (Labour, Bow East) came a close second with a yearly average of 534 and a total of 2,136.

Very well done to both and good to know how industrious our councillors can be. Maybe Rabina and Marc could tell some other councillors about this?

If we had better social landlords in the borough it is likely that all councillors work (well, those that do any) would be cut drastically.

Councillor	Party	2018/2019	2019/2020	2020/2021	2021/Feb 2022	Total	Yearly Average	Overall Rank
Khan, Rabina	Liberal Democrat	407	615	470	713	2,205	551	1
Francis, Marc	Labour	569	625	464	478	2,136	534	2
Islam, Sirajul	Labour	376	291	228	184	1,079	270	3
Blake, Rachel	Labour	209	206	238	318	971	243	4
Das, Dipa	Labour	167	192	194	74	627	157	5
Whitehead, Val	Labour	164	199	120	128	611	153	6
King, James	Labour	143	142	147	108	540	135	7
Wood, Andrew	Independent	100	146	156	131	533	133	8
McQuillan, Eve	Labour	147	97	104	136	484	121	9
Miah , Ayas	Labour	100	80	133	130	443	111	10
Chowdhury, Shad Uddin	Labour	58	116	141	123	438	110	11
Miah, Puru	Independent (was Labour)	202	164	34	36	436	109	12
Ronald, Candida	Labour	117	100	102	102	421	105	13
Edgar, David	Labour	137	120	64	86	407	102	14
Bustin, Mufeedah	Labour	97	54	72	170	393	98	15
Golds, Peter	Conservative	84	143	91	40	358	90	16
Chowdhury, Kahar	Labour	83	89	84	91	347	87	17
Tomlinson, Dan	Labour	105	106	76	59	346	87	18
Begum, Asma	Labour	58	110	73	70	311	78	19
Islam, Asma	Labour	64	77	83	84	308	77	20
Khan, Tarik Ahmed	Labour	99	86	88	21	294	74	21
Salva-Macallan, Gabriela	Labour	40	48	93	65	246	62	22
Hassell, Danny	Labour	78	69	40	52	239	60	23
Brady, Kevin	Labour	51	70	57	50	228	57	24
Obaze, Victoria	Labour	61	34	55	70	220	55	25
White, Bex	Labour	41	60	65	27	193	48	26
Ameen, Shah Suhel	Labour	54	40	24	55	173	43	27
Uz-Zaman, Motin	Labour	72	32	21	30	155	39	28
Perry, Kyrsten Danielle	Labour	9	51	46	34	140	35	29
Haque, Ehtasham	Labour	33	21	50	13	117	29	30
Ahmed, Faroque Mahfuz	Labour	29	37	31	20	117	29	31
Pappu, Mohammed Iqbal	Labour	7	53	5	27	92	23	32
Alam, Sufia	Labour	23	25	18	19	85	21	33
Uddin, Helal	Labour	28	25	20	9	82	21	34
Jones, Denise	Labour	24	10	37	10	81	20	35
Hossain, Mohammed Ahbab	Labour	21	11	32	16	80	20	36
Ali, Amina	Labour	4	41	1	25	71	18	37
Ahmed, Rajib	Labour	3	23	15	22	63	16	38
Mukit, Abdul	Labour	17	2	14	15	48	12	39
Rahman, Zenith	Labour	15	2	1	10	28	7	40
Qureshi, Leema Omar	Labour	8	5	2	1	16	4	41
Miah, Harun	Labour	-	7	2	1	10	3	42
Ullah, Abdal	Labour	4		2	2	8	2	43

What is the point of Cllr Abdal Ullah?

Oh dear. How sad is this? With an average number of two (yes, two) MEs submitted a year and a grand total of only eight (yes, eight) in four years residents may wonder just what is the point of Cllr Abdal Ullah (Labour, SKD & Wapping)?

None that we are aware of.

Looking at these absymal numbers a resident might wonder why on earth he bothers being a councillor?

Because he seems to do not a damn thing.

Mole is pretty sure that if Councillor Ullah was not best buddies with Mayor Biggs he would not be a Labour candidate because he is an electoral liability for Tower Hamlets Labour.

But he is best buddies and will no doubt be acting as the Mayor’s chauffeur during the election as he usually does.

Let’s hope his political opponents in SKD & Wapping make the most of the way he treats his residents with total and utter contempt – until he wants their vote of course!

Hopefully we will have something more on Councillor Ullah before the elections.