Reform UK councillor suspended from job at Home Office processing asylum claims

Paul Bean. The civil service code states that employees should be politically impartial. Photograph: Durham county council

A local councillor for Reform UK who works for the Home Office processing asylum and immigration claims has been suspended from his job while an investigation is carried out, the Guardian has learned.

Paul Bean, who serves as a councillor for Crook ward at Durham county council, declared his day job as a civil servant at the Home Office in his register of interests.