2025-26 Final Budget and Medium-Term Financial Plan
Full council, 20 February 2025: a named vote on the budget, carried.
For 42, Against 7, Abstained 12.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Conservative. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (42)
- Adam Brown (Conservative)
- Andrew Grant (Conservative)
- Andrew Kilbride (Conservative)
- André González De Savage (Conservative)
- Ann Addison (Conservative)
- Anna King (Conservative)
- Anthony S. Bagot-Webb (Conservative)
- Brian Sargeant (Conservative)
- Cecile Irving-Swift (Conservative)
- Charles Morton (Conservative)
- Colin Morgan (Conservative)
- Daniel Cribbin (Conservative)
- Daniel Lister (Conservative)
- David James (Conservative)
- David Smith (Conservative)
- Dermot Bambridge (Conservative)
- Fiona Baker (Conservative)
- Fiona Cole (Conservative)
- Jake Roberts (Conservative)
- James Hill (Conservative)
- John Shephard (Conservative)
- Kevin Parker (Conservative)
- Laura Stevenson (Conservative)
- Maggie Clubley (Conservative)
- Malcolm Longley (Conservative)
- Mark Hughes (Conservative)
- Matt Golby (Conservative)
- Mike Hallam (Conservative)
- Mike Warren (Conservative)
- Nigel Hinch (Conservative)
- Paul Dyball (Conservative)
- Peter Matten (Conservative)
- Phil Bignell (Conservative)
- Phil Larratt (Conservative)
- Raymond Connolly (Conservative)
- Rebecca Breese (Conservative)
- Rosie Herring (Conservative)
- Sam Rumens (Conservative)
- Stephen Clarke (Conservative)
- Stephen Hibbert (Conservative)
- William Barter (Conservative)
- Jonathan Nunn (Independent)
Against (7)
- Dennis Meredith (Liberal Democrats)
- Jonathan Harris (Liberal Democrats)
- Rosie Humphreys (Liberal Democrats)
- Sally Beardsworth (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Clark (Independent)
- Danielle Stone (Labour)
- Squire (not matched to a member)
Abstained (12)
- Bob Purser (Labour)
- Enam Haque (Labour)
- Harry Barrett (Labour)
- Jamal Alwahabi (Labour)
- Janice Duffy (Labour)
- Keith Holland-Delamere (Labour)
- Koulla Jolley (Labour)
- Rufia Ashraf (Labour)
- Sue Sharps (Labour)
- Walter Tarasiewicz (Labour)
- Wendy Randall (Labour)
- Ian McCord (Independent)
From the minutes
t was not surprising that the Council could not do more with significant inflation. · Previous balanced budgets were evidence of “doing the boring things well”. At the conclusion of the debate, there voted for the substantive budget: Councillors Addison, Bagot-Webb, Baker, Bambridge, Barter, Bignell, Breese, A Brown, Clarke, Clubley, Cole, Connolly, Cribbin, Dyball, Golby, Grant, Hallam, Herring, Hibbert, Hill, Hinch, Hughes, Irving-Swift, James, Kilbride, King, Larratt, Lister, Longley, Matten, Morgan, Morton, Nunn, Parker, J Roberts, Rumens, Sargeant, González De Savage, Shephard, D Smith, Stevenson, Warren. There voted against the substantive budget: Councillors Beardsworth, Clark, Harris, Humphreys, Meredith, Squire, Stone. There abstained: Councillors Alwahabi, Ashraf, Barrett, Duffy, Haque, Holland-Delamere, Jolley, McCord, Purser, Randall, Sharps, Tarasiewicz. RESOLVED: Council: a) Approved the 2025-26 Budget for West Northamptonshire set out in this report, as recommended by Cabinet at the meeting held on
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.