Application For Indemnity Refused - Cyngor Gwynedd Council.

With regard to the article, dated 20th October, in which a councillor asked Cyngor Gwynedd council for indemnity under the council's policy. 

The Standards Committee published a decision notice on the 26th October declining the request - 

Having looked very carefully at the application, and considering Gwynedd Council's Indemnity Policy attached as Appendix 1 to the report submitted to the committee, the Chair should write to inform the member that the Standards Committee is not in a position to offer him indemnity in relation to legal representation at a hearing of the Standards Committee.
The case the councillor is defending deals entirely with his role as a Town Council Councillor. Any decision would impact on that role only, and would not have any affect on the councillor's role as a member of Gwynedd Council. 

 https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru/documents/g4500/Decisions%2026th-Oct-2021%2010.00%20Standards%20Committee.pdf?T=2

Does this relate to the discarded file of various documents ? One of the councillors named has previously made a complaint against a fellow councillor which was upheld. 

That case involved a councillor who wrote in his blog that a local person “intended to retire soon...and stand for election to the council in a seat held by another councillor”.

The Appeals Tribunal, found these allegations to be “factually untrue and unfounded” and the councillor was then suspended from Gwynedd council for three months.

The local person then stood for council and was elected....
So what on earth is going on now....?

Gwynedd Council - Application For Indemnity By A Councillor Under The Council's Policy

There is to be a special meeting of Cyngor Gwynedd Council's Standards Committee on Tuesday, 26h October, 2021. 

4. EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC
The Chair shall propose that the press and public be excluded from the
meeting during the discussion on the following item due to the likely
disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 18C, Part 4,
Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. This paragraph should
apply because it concerns the deliberations of the Standards Committee in
reaching a finding on a matter referred to it by the Public Services
Ombudsman for Wales.

It is believed that the information should not be disclosed so that the
councillor is not prejudiced by any possible publicity of the case before any
hearing. Consequently the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

5. APPLICATION FOR INDEMNITY BY A COUNCILLOR UNDER THE
COUNCIL'S POLICY
To consider the report of the Senior Solicitor (Corporate) (separate copy to
follow for committee members only).

Are both matters related ?
Usually these cases are simple spats between councillors and mostly unimportant...

The Local Authorities (Indemnities for Members and Officers) (Wales) Order 2006
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/249/contents/made

But a councillor asking for indemnity is not usual - is it ?