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, carried.
For 25, Against 19, 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 (25)
- 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)
- Chris Pearson (Labour)
- Claire Osborne (Labour)
- Dave Harris (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)
- Lesley Scott-Boutell (Independent)
- Alake Akinyemi (not matched to a member)
Against (19)
- 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)
- Rhys Smithson (Conservative)
- Robert Davidson (Conservative)
- Roger Buston (Conservative)
- Sara Naylor (Conservative)
- Thomas Rowe (Conservative)
- Will Calverley (Conservative)
- William Sunnucks (Conservative)
- Sean Kelly (Liberal Democrats)
- Çufoglu (not matched to a member)
Abstained (4)
- Amy Kirkby-Taylor (Green)
- Mark Goacher (Green)
- Andrew Ellis (Conservative)
- Michael Lilley (Labour)
From the minutes
carried (TWENTY-FIVE voted FOR, NINETEEN 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 Alake Akinyemi, Appleton, Bourne, Cory, Goss, Harris, Jay, King, Law, Luxford Vaughan, McCarthy, McLean, Moffat, Osborne, Pearson, Rippingale, Scordis, Scott-Boutell, Smith, Sommers, C. Spindler, M. Spindler, Warnes, J. Young, and T. Young. AGAINST: Councillors Barber, Bentley, Buston, Calverley, Çufoglu, Davidson, Dundas, Hagon, Kelly, Laws, Maclean, Naylor, Parsons, Powling, Rowe, Smithson, Sunnucks, Tate and Willetts. ABSTAINED from voting: Councillors Goacher, Kirkby-Taylor, the Deputy Mayor (Ellis) and the Mayor (Lilley).
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.