Final Revenue Budget 2026/27 and Medium Term Financial Strategy 26/27-28/29
Full council, 25 February 2026: a named vote, carried.
For 26, Against 5, Abstained 10.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Reform UK. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (26)
- Aaron Green (Labour)
- Cathy Kent (Labour)
- Cathy Sisterson (Labour)
- Cici Manwa (Labour)
- Clifford Holloway (Labour)
- Daniel Chukwu (Labour)
- Gary Watson (Labour)
- John Cecil (Labour)
- John Kent (Labour)
- Lee Watson (Labour)
- Lynda Heath (Labour)
- Lynn Worrall (Labour)
- Mark Hooper (Labour)
- Mark Hurrell (Labour)
- Martin Kerin (Labour)
- Michael Fletcher (Labour)
- Ngozi Alike (Labour)
- Srikanth Panjala (Labour)
- Steve Liddiard (Labour)
- Sue Shinnick (Labour)
- Tony Fish (Labour)
- Victoria Holloway (Labour)
- Vikki Hartstean (Labour)
- Fraser Massey (NPAIC)
- Roy Jones (NPAIC)
- Bill Cook (Reform UK)
Against (5)
- Alan Benson (Reform UK)
- Alex Anderson (Reform UK)
- Russell Cherry (Reform UK)
- John Allen (Independent)
- Neil Speight (NPAIC)
Abstained (10)
- Barry Johnson (Conservative)
- Ben Maney (Conservative)
- George Coxshall (Conservative)
- Jacqui Maney (Conservative)
- James Halden (Conservative)
- Qaisar Abbas (Conservative)
- Rob Gledhill (Conservative)
- Tom Kelly (Conservative)
- Gary Byrne (Independent)
- John Fox (NPAIC)
From the minutes
d nothing. You didn't challenge when you should. I hope you get your pay back. Madam Mayor I put the budget to the vote. A recorded vote was undertaken on recommendations 2.1 (a) and 2.1 (b) en bloc. For: Councillors Alike, Cecil, Chukwu, Fish, Fletcher, Green, Hartstean, Heath, C Holloway, V Holloway, Hooper, Hurrell, Jones, C Kent, J Kent, Kerin, Liddiard, Manwa, Massey, Morris Cook, Panjala, Shinnick, Sisterson, G Watson, L Watson, Worrall (26) Against: Councillors Allen, Anderson, Benson, Cherry, Speight (5) Abstain: Councillors Abbas, G Byrne, Coxshall, Fox, Gledhill, Halden, Johnson, Kelly, B Maney, J Maney, Rigby (11) A vote was undertaken on recommendations 2.1 (c) to 2.1 (r) en bloc to which members voted unanimously in favour. Whereupon the Mayor declared recommendations of the report carried. RESOLVED Cab
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