To appoint Chairs and Vice-Chairs of the following Committee's
Full council, 20 May 2026: a named vote, lost.
For 26, Against 48, Abstained 3.
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)
- Alex Neil (Liberal Democrats)
- Amanda Hopgood (Liberal Democrats)
- Craig Martin (Liberal Democrats)
- David Freeman (Liberal Democrats)
- Dominic Haney (Liberal Democrats)
- Elizabeth Pears (Liberal Democrats)
- Elizabeth Scott (Liberal Democrats)
- Ellie Hopgood (Liberal Democrats)
- Eric Mavin (Liberal Democrats)
- Kathryn Rooney (Liberal Democrats)
- Lesley Mavin (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Wilkes (Liberal Democrats)
- Michael Stead (Liberal Democrats)
- Terry Rooney (Liberal Democrats)
- Anita Savory (Independent)
- Billy McAloon (Independent)
- Chris Lines (Independent)
- Gary Hutchinson (Independent)
- John Shuttleworth (Independent)
- Liz Maddison (Independent)
- Michael Ramage (Independent)
- Phil Heaviside (Independent)
- Alison Gray (Labour)
- Julie Griffiths (Labour)
- Rob Crute (Labour)
- Tracie Smith (Labour)
Against (48)
- Adrian Schulman (Reform UK)
- Andrew Husband (Reform UK)
- Brian Quirey (Reform UK)
- Cathy Hunt (Reform UK)
- Chris Fairs (Reform UK)
- Christine Blatchford (Reform UK)
- Craig Marshall (Reform UK)
- Darren Grimes (Reform UK)
- David Walton (Reform UK)
- Dawn Bellingham (Reform UK)
- Dawn Saunders (Reform UK)
- Emma Hunt (Reform UK)
- George Anderson (Reform UK)
- Howard Brown (Reform UK)
- Jackie Teasdale (Reform UK)
- James Pickard (Reform UK)
- James Stephenson (Reform UK)
- Jillian Campbell (Reform UK)
- Joe Quinn (Reform UK)
- John Cook (Reform UK)
- John Cottier (Reform UK)
- John Grant (Reform UK)
- John Kinvig (Reform UK)
- Karen Allison (Reform UK)
- Kyle Genner (Reform UK)
- Louise Penders (Reform UK)
- Louise Taylor (Reform UK)
- Lyndsey Fox (Reform UK)
- Matt Burnard (Reform UK)
- Neil Craggs (Reform UK)
- Paul Mountford (Reform UK)
- Rhys Burriss (Reform UK)
- Robbie Rodiss (Reform UK)
- Robert Potts (Reform UK)
- Saffron Sims-Brydon (Reform UK)
- Sandra Grindle (Reform UK)
- Sean Healy (Reform UK)
- Stephen Bowron (Reform UK)
- Stephen Gray (Reform UK)
- Steve Biggs (Reform UK)
- Steven Franklin (Reform UK)
- Susan Husband (Reform UK)
- Tim McGuinness (Reform UK)
- Tim Robson (Reform UK)
- Tom Redmond (Reform UK)
- Alan Bell (Independent)
- Jack McGlenen (Independent)
- Richard Bell (Conservative)
Abstained (3)
- Nick Brown (Independent)
- Pete Molloy (Independent)
- Paul Bean (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
and Councillor J Campbell be appointed as Vice-Chair of Safer and Stronger Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee. A named vote was requested and supported. Upon taking a vote on the Amendment: For Councillors R Crute, D Freeman, A Gray, J Griffiths, D Haney, P Heaviside, E Hopgood, A Hopgood, G Hutchinson, C Lines, L Maddison, C Martin, E Mavin, L Mavin, B McAloon, A Neil, E Pears, M Ramage, K Rooney, T Rooney, A Savory, E Scott, J Shuttleworth, T Smith, M Stead and M Wilkes. Against Councillors K Allison, G Anderson, A Bell, R Bell, D Bellingham, S Biggs, C Blatchford, S Bowron, H Brown, M Burnard, R Burriss, J Campbell, J Cook, J Cottier, N Craggs, C Fairs, L Fox, S Franklin, K Genner, J Grant, S Gray, D Grimes, S Grindle, S Healy, C Hunt, E Hunt, S Husband, A Husband, J Kinvig, C Marshall, J McGlenen, T McGuinness, P Mountford, L Penders, J Pickard, R Potts, J Quinn, B Quirey, T Redmond, T Robson, R Rodiss, D Saunders, A Schulman, S Sims-Brydon, J Stephenson, L Taylor, J Teasdale and D Walton. Abstain Councillors P Bean, N Brown and P Molloy. The Amendment was lost. The original Motion was agreed without a vote. Resolved: That the list of Chairs and Vice Chairs be agreed.
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.