Final 2026/27 General Fund Budget and Medium-Term Financial Forecast (MTFF) to 2030/31 (including Capital Programme and Housing Revenue Account)
Full council, 25 February 2026: a named vote, lost.
For 17, Against 27, Abstained 3.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: No overall control. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (17)
- Carl Powling (Conservative)
- Darius Laws (Conservative)
- Dennis Willetts (Conservative)
- Jackie Maclean (Conservative)
- Jeremy Hagon (Conservative)
- Kevin Bentley (Conservative)
- Leigh Tate (Conservative)
- Lewis Barber (Conservative)
- Martin Parsons (Conservative)
- Paul Dundas (Conservative)
- Robert Davidson (Conservative)
- Roger Buston (Conservative)
- Sara Naylor (Conservative)
- Thomas Rowe (Conservative)
- Will Calverley (Conservative)
- William Sunnucks (Conservative)
- Sean Kelly (Liberal Democrats)
Against (27)
- Chris Pearson (Labour)
- Claire Osborne (Labour)
- Dave Harris (Labour)
- Elizabeth Alake-Akinyemi (Labour)
- Jocelyn Law (Labour)
- Julie Young (Labour)
- Kayleigh Rippingale (Labour)
- Lee Scordis (Labour)
- Martyn Warnes (Labour)
- Richard Bourne (Labour)
- Sam McLean (Labour)
- Tim Young (Labour)
- Alison Jay (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrea Luxford Vaughan (Liberal Democrats)
- Catherine Spindler (Liberal Democrats)
- David King (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Cory (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Goss (Liberal Democrats)
- Michael Spindler (Liberal Democrats)
- Natalie Sommers (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Smith (Liberal Democrats)
- Sam McCarthy (Liberal Democrats)
- Simon Appleton (Liberal Democrats)
- Venessa Moffat (Liberal Democrats)
- Amy Kirkby-Taylor (Green)
- Mark Goacher (Green)
- Lesley Scott-Boutell (Independent)
Abstained (3)
- Andrew Ellis (Conservative)
- Michael Lilley (Labour)
- Çufoglu (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
lost (SEVENTEEN voted FOR, TWENTY-SEVEN voted AGAINST and THREE ABSTAINED from voting). Further to the provisions of Council Procedure Rule15(3) a named vote was taken and the voting was as follows:- FOR: Councillors Barber, Bentley, Buston, Calverley, Davidson, Dundas, Hagon, Kelly, Laws, Maclean, Naylor, Parsons, Powling, Rowe, Sunnucks, Tate and Willetts. AGAINST: Councillors Alake-Akinyemi, Appleton, Bourne, Cory, Goacher, Goss, Harris, Jay, King, Kirkby-Taylor, Law, Luxford Vaughan, McCarthy, McLean, Moffat, Osborne, Pearson, Rippingale, Scordis, Scott-Boutell, Smith, Sommers, C. Spindler, M. Spindler, Warnes, J. Young and T. Young. ABSTAINED from voting: Councillor Çufoglu, the Deputy Mayor (Ellis) and the Mayor (Lilley). On being put to the vote Main Amendment 4 proposed by Councillor Naylor was lost (SEVENTEEN voted FOR, TWENTY-SIX voted AGAINST and FOUR ABSTAINED f
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.