GENERAL FUND REVENUE BUDGET, COUNCIL TAX AND DEDICATED SCHOOLS GRANT FOR 2026/27
Full council, 23 February 2026: a named vote on the motion, carried.
For 25, Against 15, Abstained 0.
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 (25)
- Adrian Hoyle (Labour)
- Alistair Humphreys (Labour)
- Dave Flanagan (Labour)
- Fred Jackson (Labour)
- Gillian Campbell (Labour)
- Jane Hugo (Labour)
- Jim Hobson (Labour)
- Jo Farrell (Labour)
- Joel McKevitt (Labour)
- John Boughton (Labour)
- Jon Bamborough MBE (Labour)
- Kath Benson (Labour)
- Kim Critchley (Labour)
- Laura Marshall (Labour)
- Lisette Roe (Labour)
- Lynn Williams MBE (Labour)
- Mark Smith (Labour)
- Matthew Thomas (Labour)
- Mel Fenlon (Labour)
- Neal Brookes (Labour)
- Pam Brookes (Labour)
- Paula Burdess (Labour)
- Peter Hunter (Labour)
- Shaun Brookes (Labour)
- Simon Cartmell (Labour)
Against (15)
- Anita Cooper (Conservative)
- Bradley Mitchell (Conservative)
- Carl Mitchell MBE (Conservative)
- Danny Scott (Conservative)
- Diane Mitchell MBE (Conservative)
- Gerard Walsh (Conservative)
- Graham Baker (Conservative)
- Jason Roberts (Conservative)
- Julie Sloman (Conservative)
- Michele Scott (Conservative)
- Paul Galley (Conservative)
- Paul Wilshaw (Conservative)
- Emma Ellison (Reform UK)
- Jim O'Neill (Reform UK)
- Jon Morgan (Reform UK)
From the minutes
that under 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, Critchley, Farrell, Fenlon, Flanagan, Hobson, Hoyle, Hugo, Humphreys, Hunter, Jackson, Marshall, McKevitt, Roe, Smith, Thomas, Williams MBE – Total 25 Against the motion: Councillors Baker, Cooper, Ellison, Galley, B Mitchell, C Mitchell, D Mitchell, Morgan, O'Neill, Roberts, D Scott, M Scott, Sloman, Walsh, Wilshaw – Total 15 Abstentions: None. Motion 2 carried: The motion was therefore carried. [Note: Councillor Baker left the meeting following the conclusion of this item.]
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.