GENERAL FUND REVENUE BUDGET, COUNCIL TAX AND DEDICATED SCHOOLS GRANT FOR 2025/26
Full council, 24 February 2025: a named vote on the motion, carried.
For 23, Against 12, Abstained 1.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Labour. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (23)
- Adrian Hoyle (Labour)
- Dave Flanagan (Labour)
- Fred Jackson (Labour)
- Gillian Campbell (Labour)
- Ivan Taylor (Labour)
- Jane Hugo (Labour)
- Jim Hobson (Labour)
- Jo Farrell (Labour)
- Joel McKevitt (Labour)
- John Boughton (Labour)
- Jon Bamborough MBE (Labour)
- Julie Jones (Labour)
- Kath Benson (Labour)
- Laura Marshall (Labour)
- Lynn Williams MBE (Labour)
- Mark Smith (Labour)
- Matthew Thomas (Labour)
- Mel Fenlon (Labour)
- Neal Brookes (Labour)
- Pam Brookes (Labour)
- Paula Burdess (Labour)
- Shaun Brookes (Labour)
- Simon Cartmell (Labour)
Against (12)
- Bradley Mitchell (Conservative)
- Carl Mitchell MBE (Conservative)
- Danny Scott (Conservative)
- Diane Mitchell MBE (Conservative)
- Emma Ellison (Conservative)
- Graham Baker (Conservative)
- Jason Roberts (Conservative)
- Julie Sloman (Conservative)
- Michele Scott (Conservative)
- Paul Galley (Conservative)
- Paul Wilshaw (Conservative)
- Jim O'Neill (Reform UK)
Abstained (1)
- Peter Hunter (Labour)
From the minutes
dance with the Local Authorities (Standing Order) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, there was a requirement for a recorded vote on setting the Council tax and budget. The voting was as follows: For the motion: Councillors Bamborough, Benson, Boughton, N Brookes, P Brookes, S Brookes, Burdess, Campbell, Cartmell, Farrell, Fenlon, Flanagan, Hobson, Hoyle, Hugo, Jackson, Jones, Marshall, McKevitt, Smith, Taylor, Thomas, Williams. Total 23. Against the motion: Councillors Baker, Ellison, Galley, B Mitchell, C Mitchell, D Mitchell, O'Neill, Roberts, D Scott, M Scott, Sloman, Wilshaw. Total 12. Abstentions: Councillor Hunter – Total 1. Motion carried: The motion was therefore carried. Notes: 1. The Council agreed an exception to Procedural Standing Orders to extend the time limit
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