Council Budget 2026-2027
Full council, 26 February 2026: a named vote on the resolution, carried.
For 31, Against 16, 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 (31)
- Abdul Amin (Labour)
- Ana Fernandes (Labour)
- Chris Watts (Labour)
- Claire Crilly (Labour)
- Domingos Dias (Labour)
- Emma Bushell (Labour)
- Fay Howard (Labour)
- Imtiyaz Shaikh (Labour)
- Jamal Miah (Labour)
- Jane Milner-Barry (Labour)
- Janine Howarth (Labour)
- Jason Mills (Labour)
- Jim Grant (Labour)
- Jim Robbins (Labour)
- John Ballman (Labour)
- Kevin Small (Labour)
- Leon Grother (Labour)
- Marianne Le Coyte Grinney (Labour)
- Marina Strinkovsky (Labour)
- Mike Davies (Labour)
- Nadine Watts (Labour)
- Neil Hopkins (Labour)
- Paul Dixon (Labour)
- Princia Fernandes (Labour)
- Ravi Venkatesh (Labour)
- Ray Ballman (Labour)
- Rose Llewellyn (Labour)
- Stanka Wilson (Labour)
- Thomas Smith (Labour)
- Dr Matt Lodge (Independent)
- Adam Poole (Liberal Democrats)
Against (16)
- Dale Heenan (Conservative)
- Daniel Adams (Conservative)
- Gary Sumner (Conservative)
- Gayle Cook (Conservative)
- Jake Chandler (Conservative)
- Kevin Parry (Conservative)
- Lawrence Elliott (Conservative)
- Matthew Vallender (Conservative)
- Matty Courtliff (Conservative)
- Nick Gardiner (Conservative)
- Steve Weisinger (Conservative)
- Sudha Sri Nukana (Conservative)
- Suresh Gattapur (Conservative)
- Vijay Manro (Conservative)
- Rob Heath (Green)
- Tom Butcher (Green)
From the minutes
ine with The Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, the vote on Minute 71 (13), (14) and (15) of the Cabinet (Budget 2026/2027) was recorded and declared carried: Councillors voting for the resolution were: Councillors Abdul Amin, John Ballman, Ray Ballman, Emma Bushell, Claire Crilly, Mike Davies, Domingos Dias, Paul Dixon, Ana Fernandes, Princia Fernandes, Jim Grant, Leon Grother, Neil Hopkins, Fay Howard, Janine Howarth, Rose Llewellyn, Marianne Le Coyte Grinney, Dr Matt Lodge, Jamal Miah, Jason Mills, Jane Milner-Barry, Adam Poole, Jim Robbins, Imtiyaz Shaikh, Kevin Small, Thomas Smith, Marina Strinkovsky, Ravi Venkatesh, Chris Watts, Nadine Watts and Stanka Wilson. Councillors voting against the resolution were: Councillors Daniel Adams, Tom Butcher, Jake Chandler, Gayle Cook, Matthew Courtliff, Lawrence Elliott, Nick Gardiner, Suresha Gattapur, Rob Heath, Dale Heenan, Vijay Manro, Sudha Nukana, Kevin Parry, Gary Sumner, Matthew Vallender and Steve Weisinger. There were no abstentions. In line with The Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, the vote on Minute 72 (1), (
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.