Budget 2026/27 and Medium term Financial Plan
Full council, 3 March 2026: a named vote, lost.
For 5, Against 26, Abstained 5.
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 (5)
- Dr Helen Davison (Green)
- Helen Tucker (Green)
- Jill Perry (Green)
- Roger Dobson (Liberal Democrats)
- Tim Pickstone (Liberal Democrats)
Against (26)
- Andrew Semple (Labour)
- Anne Glendinning (Labour)
- Anne Quilter (Labour)
- Barbara Cannon (Labour)
- Bill Pegram (Labour)
- Bob Kelly (Labour)
- Carni McCarron-Holmes (Labour)
- Christopher Southward (Labour)
- Denise Rollo (Labour)
- Elaine Lynch (Labour)
- Emma Williamson (Labour)
- Gillian Troughton (Labour)
- Graham Minshaw (Labour)
- Jeanette Forster (Labour)
- Joseph Ghayouba (Labour)
- Lisa Hinton (Labour)
- Lucy Patrick (Labour)
- Mark Fryer (Labour)
- Martin Harris (Labour)
- Michael Eldon (Labour)
- Sally Lansbury (Labour)
- Sam Pollen (Labour)
- Andy Pratt (Conservative)
- David Moore (Conservative)
- Mike Mitchelson (Conservative)
- Linda Jones-Bulman (Independent)
Abstained (5)
- Gareth Ellis (Conservative)
- Mike Johnson (Conservative)
- Tony Markley (Conservative)
- Trevor Allison (Conservative)
- Robert Betton (Independent)
From the minutes
was CARRIED. A recorded vote was taken in accordance with the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014. Voting for the proposed amendment from Councillor Pickstone: For: Councillors Davison, Dobson, Perry, Pickstone and Tucker Against: Councillors Cannon, Eldon, Forster, Fryer, Ghayouba, Glendinning, Harris, Hinton, Jones-Bulman, Kelly, Lansbury, Lynch, McCarron-Holmes, Minshaw, Mitchelson, Moore, Patrick, Pegram, Pollen, Pratt, Quilter, Rollo, Semple, Southward, Troughton and Williamson Abstain: Councillors Allison, Betton, Ellis, Johnson and Markley The amended motion from Councillor Pickstone FELL. Debate then moved to the substantive motion moved by the Portfolio Holder for Financial Planning a
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