A COUNCILLOR expected to face an inquiry over claims he helped award a £1m public contract to a firm in which he holds a directorship will face further accusations that he failed to declare his connection.

A COUNCILLOR expected to face an inquiry over claims he helped award a £1m public contract to a firm in which he holds a directorship will face further accusations that he failed to declare his connection.

Jim Coleman, deputy leader of Glasgow City Council, will also be the subject of complaints to Scotland's public sector watchdog that on at least one other previous occasion he failed to declare his directorship of the Wise Group during a council meeting he was chairing and where the company benefited.

The incident, in March 2008, saw the Wise Group named as a partner of the council in a recycling project. Another councillor, Martha Wardrop of the Greens, declared an interest and left the meeting as she had connections with another organisation involved in the discussions, official records show.

The SNP group now claims it has documentation showing the deputy leader and Labour councillor for Ballieston included his directorship of the Wise Group only after it became an issue earlier this week.

However, the city council claims the information was on Mr Coleman's register of interests before this week and that an administrative error, "not on Mr Coleman's part" meant that this was not reflected on the website.

Yesterday it emerged that Cllr Coleman was the subject of a complaint to the Standards Commission.

Last night the Wise Group refused to comment on whether it believes Mr Coleman should have declared an interest at the March 2008 meeting. Mr Coleman was unavailable for comment.