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 26, Abstained 4.
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 (26)
- 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)
Abstained (4)
- Andrew Ellis (Conservative)
- Lesley Scott-Boutell (Independent)
- Michael Lilley (Labour)
- Çufoglu (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
as lost (SEVENTEEN voted FOR, TWENTY-SIX voted AGAINST and FOUR 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, Smith, Sommers, C. Spindler, M. Spindler, Warnes, J. Young and T. Young. ABSTAINED from voting: Councillors Çufoglu, Scott-Boutell, the Deputy Mayor (Ellis) and the Mayor (Lilley). The substantive motion moved by Councillor Cory was then put to the vote and was carried (TWENTY-FIVE voted FOR, NINETEEN voted AGAINST and FOUR ABS
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.