Motion on Notice - Two Child Benefit Cap
Full council, 24 November 2025: a named vote, carried.
For 40, Against 0, Abstained 8.
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 (40)
- Alison Raynsford (Labour)
- Alison Simpson (Labour)
- Angela Penrose (Labour)
- Anne Freeman (Labour)
- Bill Stevens (Labour)
- Chris Cuddihee (Labour)
- Chris Penberthy (Labour)
- Jaime Bannerman (Labour)
- Jemima Laing (Labour)
- Jeremy Goslin (Labour)
- John Stephens (Labour)
- Jon Dingle (Labour)
- Josh McCarty (Labour)
- Kate Taylor (Labour)
- Keith Moore (Labour)
- Kevin Sproston (Labour)
- Lewis Allison (Labour)
- Lindsay Gilmour (Labour)
- Maria Lawson (Labour)
- Mark Coker (Labour)
- Mark Lowry (Labour)
- Mary Aspinall (Labour)
- Matt Smith (Labour)
- Neil Hendy (Labour)
- Paul McNamara (Labour)
- Ray Morton (Labour)
- Sally Cresswell (Labour)
- Sally Haydon (Labour)
- Sarah Allen (Labour)
- Stefan Krizanac (Labour)
- Sue Dann (Labour)
- Tess Blight (Labour)
- Tina Tuohy (Labour)
- Tom Briars-Delve (Labour)
- Will Noble (Labour)
- Ian Poyser (Green)
- Lauren McLay (Green)
- Zoe Reilly (Independent)
- Sally Nicholson (TIND)
- Dylan Tippetts (not matched to a member)
Abstained (8)
- Andy Lugger (Conservative)
- Chris Wood (Conservative)
- Ian Darcy (Conservative)
- Lee Finn (Conservative)
- Andrea Loveridge (TIND)
- Maddi Bridgeman (TIND)
- Steve Ricketts (TIND)
- Terri Beer (Independent)
From the minutes
tts and Penberthy, Council agreed to: 1. Request that the Leader of the Council wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer encouraging them to tackle child poverty by lifting the two-child benefit cap. For (40) Councillors Allen, Allison, Aspinall, Bannerman, Blight, Briars-Delve, Coker, Cresswell, Cuddihee, Dann, Dingle, Freeman, Gilmour, Goslin, Haydon, Hendy, Krizanac, Laing, Lawson, Lowry, McCarty, McNamara, McLay, Moore, Morton, Noble, S Nicholson, Penberthy, Penrose, Poyser, Raynsford, Reilly, Simpson, M. Smith, Sproston, Stephens, Stevens, Taylor, Tippetts and Tuohy. Against (0) Abstain (8) Councillors Mrs Beer, Mrs Bridgeman, Darcy, Finn, Lugger, Loveridge, Ricketts and Wood. Absent/did not vote (6) Councillors Holloway Ney, R. Smith, Steel, Tofan and Ms Watkin.
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.