NOTICE OF MOTION - DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES
Full council, 3 October 2019: a named vote, lost.
For 12, Against 17, Abstained 2.
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 (12)
- Alex Crawford (Labour)
- Ashley Halstead (Labour)
- Christine Guinness (Labour)
- Clive Grattan (Labour)
- Gaynor Austin (Labour)
- Keith Dibble (Labour)
- Mike Roberts BSc, FRSA (Labour)
- Nadia Martin (Labour)
- Sophie Porter (Labour)
- Terry Bridgeman (Labour)
- Abul Chowdhury (Liberal Democrats)
- Thomas Mitchell (Liberal Democrats)
Against (17)
- Adrian Newell (Conservative)
- Bruce Thomas (Conservative)
- David Clifford (Conservative)
- Diane Bedford (Conservative)
- Jacqui Vosper (Conservative)
- John Marsh (Conservative)
- John Woolley (Conservative)
- Jonathan Canty (Conservative)
- Lee Jeffers (Conservative)
- Maurice Sheehan (Conservative)
- Mike Smith (Conservative)
- Paul Taylor (Conservative)
- Peter Crerar (Conservative)
- Peter Cullum (Conservative)
- Prabesh KC (Conservative)
- Sophia Choudhary (Conservative)
- Stephen Masterson (Conservative)
Abstained (2)
- Calum Stewart (Conservative)
- Sue Carter (Conservative)
From the minutes
lso made to the effect on the poor, desperate and vulnerable of the use of bailiffs for relatively small debts and the need for a more sensitive approach to be taken. On a recorded vote, there voted: FOR: Cllrs Gaynor Austin, T.D. Bridgeman, A. Chowdhury, A.H. Crawford, K. Dibble, C.P. Grattan, Christine Guinness, A.J. Halstead, Nadia Martin, T.W. Mitchell, Sophie Porter, M.J. Roberts (12); AGAINST: Cllrs Diane Bedford, J.B. Canty, Sophia Choudhary, D.E. Clifford, P.I.C. Crerar, P.J. Cullum, L. Jeffers, Prabesh KC, J.H. Marsh, S.J. Masterson, A.R. Newell, M.L. Sheehan, M.D. Smith, P.G. Taylor, B.A. Thomas, Jacqui Vosper, J.E. Woolley (17); and ABSTAINED: The Mayor (Cllr Sue Carter) and Cllr C.J. Stewart (2) and the Motion was DECLARED LOST.
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.