Failing to treat people with respect was the joint highest complaint made to Bradford Council during the past year about its members, a new report has found.

The report, to be discussed at the authority's Standard's Committee on Thursday, found 16 complaints had been made about councillors' behaviour in 2009-10.

Of these, 11 included failing to treat people with respect. There were also 11 complaints referring to conduct by councillors that could bring their office or authority into disrepute.

Other complaints made to the committee included three charges of councillors using their position to their advantage and two of bullying.

Nine allegations involved failure to declare personal or prejudicial interests, failure to leave a meeting where there is a prejudicial interest and improperly influencing a decision where a member has a prejudicial interest.

Pam Essler, independent chairman of the committee, said: "Some of these complaints are made by people who are slightly aggrieved and not all of them are a direct reflection on elected members. The majority of those cases have not been taken any further after assessment by a panel."

Of the 16 complaints, 13 were made by members of the public and three by district councillors. A total of 13 were made about district councillors while three were made against parish councillors.