County councillor John Power has carried out his threat to ignore the inquiry investigating claims that he revealed confidential information.

Six county councillors met yesterday to examine allegations that the veteran Labour councillor had told a public meeting about a confidential bid for a former old people's home.

The panel - made up of two councillors from each of the three major parties - is understood to have drawn up recommendations, which will go before the county council's Operations Sub-Committee on June 21.

County solicitor Chris Impey said: "The panel decided that the matter should be kept confidential until it reports to the sub-committee."

Mr Power, who led the campaign to stop the closure of the Oseney Court old people's home in Botley Road, had earlier dismissed the investigation as "a classic case of naming and shaming, and then gathering evidence".

Yesterday he was equally dismissive of the investigation.

He said: "I don't care what the recommendations are.

"I was elected to represent the public.

"The public interest is paramount to what I try to do in politics.

"If they try to stop me doing that, they may find themselves facing legal action."

Mr Power wrote to the County Solicitor to say that he had been given legal advice not to reply to the allegation, which had denied him "due process and natural justice".

The county council launched the investigation into claims that Mr Power had told a public meeting that a housing association had bid £2m to buy Oseney Court.

Offers to buy the home were made under a closed bidding process and the identity of bidders and the amounts involved were meant to have remained confidential.