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In 2021 local elections, Goodman stood as a counciller for West Auckland ward <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/news/former-mp-plots-comeback-as-a-durham-county-councillor |newspaper=Teesdale Mercury |title=Former MP plots comeback as a Durham county councillor |first=Martin |last=Paul |date=13 January 2021 |accessdate=4 May 2021 }}</ref> where she was beaten in to fourth place by Conservative candidates Mark Roberts and Declan Gilroy and Labour candidate Rob Yorke.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.durham.gov.uk/countyelectionresults2021#West%20Auckland|title = Durham County election results - 6 May 2021 - Durham County Council}}</ref>
==2009 expenses scandal==
In May 2009, ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' revealed that Goodman had claimed £519.31 for use of a cottage in her own constituency on her expenses, and had submitted hotel bills dated two months prior to being elected to the House of Commons.<ref name="tele">{{cite news|last1=Allen|first1=Nick|title=MPs' expenses: Helen Goodman claimed £500 for stay in holiday cottage in her constituency|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5345325/MPs-expenses-Helen-Goodman-claimed-500-for-stay-in-holiday-cottage-in-her-constituency.html|access-date=25 March 2015|publisher=Daily Telegraph|date=19 May 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402120953/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5345325/MPs-expenses-Helen-Goodman-claimed-500-for-stay-in-holiday-cottage-in-her-constituency.html|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Goodman argued that she was carrying out Parliamentary business when using the cottage and thus her claim was accepted, and the claim for the hotel stay – which was rejected – was a mistake.<ref name="tele"/>
She also claimed a £600 fee for advice from her management consultant husband.<ref name="tele2">{{cite news|last1=Swaine|first1=Jon|title=MPs' expenses: Helen Goodman claimed £600 for husband's office advice|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/6770919/MPs-expenses-Helen-Goodman-claimed-600-for-husbands-office-advice.html|access-date=25 March 2015|date=12 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402121334/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/6770919/MPs-expenses-Helen-Goodman-claimed-600-for-husbands-office-advice.html|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
Goodman pointed out that the independent [[Thomas Legg|inquiry by Thomas Legg]] into [[MPs expenses]] had given her "an entirely clean bill of health and concluded that none of my claims required further explanation or clarification.”<ref name="tele2"/>
==Ingleton speech controversy==
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