To consider and agree any Reports from the Cabinet and the Council's Committees.
Full council, 26 February 2026: a named vote.
For 32, Against 1, Abstained 19.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: No overall control. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (32)
- Adam Brook (Labour)
- Alec Brown (Labour)
- Bill Suthers (Labour)
- Carl Quartermain (Labour)
- Carrie Richardson (Labour)
- Ceri Cawley (Labour)
- Christopher Massey (Labour)
- Janine Craven (Labour)
- John McCue (Labour)
- Linda White (Labour)
- Lisa Robson (Labour)
- Lynn Pallister (Labour)
- Lynne Rynn (Labour)
- Margaret O'Donoghue (Labour)
- Marian Fairley (Labour)
- Neil Bendelow (Labour)
- Peter Chaney (Labour)
- Robert Clark (Labour)
- Sue Jeffrey (Labour)
- Ursula Earl (Labour)
- Alison Barnes (Liberal Democrats)
- Carole Morgan (Liberal Democrats)
- Chris Jones (Liberal Democrats)
- Glyn Nightingale (Liberal Democrats)
- Ian Hart (Liberal Democrats)
- Jemma Joy (Liberal Democrats)
- Karen King (Liberal Democrats)
- Malcolm Head (Liberal Democrats)
- Mary Ovens (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Berry (INDGRP)
- Steve Kay (INDGRP)
- Stuart Smith (INDGRP)
Against (1)
- CouncillorEvans (not matched to a member)
Abstained (19)
- Carolyn Curr (Conservative)
- Curt Pugh (Conservative)
- Jack Symon (Conservative)
- Julie Hart (Conservative)
- Niall Hargreaves (Conservative)
- Paul Salvin (Conservative)
- Peter Grogan (Conservative)
- Stephen Crane (Conservative)
- Vera Rider (Conservative)
- Barry Hunt (INDGRP)
- Debbie Powlay (INDGRP)
- Graham Cutler (INDGRP)
- Martin Fletcher (INDGRP)
- Philip Thomson (INDGRP)
- Tim Gray (INDGRP)
- Wayne Davies (INDGRP)
- Jade Lavan (Independent)
- Craig Holmes (Reform UK)
- McInnnes (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
h immediately and incrementally over the MTFS period, to restore a safer and more sustainable level of financial protection. The motion was put to a recorded vote whereupon the voting was as follows: FOR: Councillors Barnes, Bendelow, Berry, Brook, Brown, Cawley, Chaney, R Clark, Craven, Earl, Fairley, I Hart, Head, S Jeffrey, Jones, Joy, Kay, King, Massey, McCue, Morgan, Nightingale, O'Donoghue, Ovens, Pallister, Quartermain, Richardson, Robson, Rynn, Smith, Suthers and White. AGAINST: CouncillorEvans. ABSTENTIONS: Councillors Crane, Curr, Cutler, Davies, Fletcher, Gray, Grogan, Hargreaves, J Hart, Holmes, Hunt, Lavan, McInnnes, Powlay, Pugh, Rider, Salvin, Symon and P Thomson. RESOLVED that Borough Council: 1. Accepts the MHCLG ‘in-principle' offer for, and use of, Exceptional Financial Support (EFS) for 2026/27 of up to £
The item in the council's own minutes. Names are matched to the councillors listed at the meeting. The names of people who aren't councillors are removed.