Report of the Cabinet held on 17 December 2025 - Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2026/27
Full council, 25 February 2026: a named vote, carried.
For 30, Against 6, Abstained 6.
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 (30)
- Brian Clark (Liberal Democrats)
- Clive English (Liberal Democrats)
- David Naghi (Liberal Democrats)
- Dinesh Khadka (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Naghi (Liberal Democrats)
- Mike Thompson (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Wilby (Liberal Democrats)
- Richard Conyard (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Field (Liberal Democrats)
- Simon Wales (Liberal Democrats)
- Tony Harwood (Liberal Democrats)
- Allison Sweetman (Green)
- Donna Greenan (Green)
- Grace Couch (Green)
- Kimberley Milham (Green)
- Michael Summersgill (Green)
- Rachel Rodwell (Green)
- Stephen Thompson (Green)
- Stuart Jeffery (Green)
- Dan Wilkinson (Labour)
- Hilary Jenkins-Baldock (Labour)
- Joanna Wilkinson (Labour)
- Malcolm McKay (Labour)
- Maureen Cleator (Labour)
- Sarah Barwick (Labour)
- Patrick Coates (IFOGF)
- Paul Harper (IFOGF)
- Anne Dawes (IFOGI)
- Fay Gooch (IFOGI)
- Vanessa Jones (IGAIA)
Against (6)
- Gary Cooke (Conservative)
- Paddy Riordan (Conservative)
- Ronald Burke (Conservative)
- Stanley Forecast (Conservative)
- Tom Cannon (Conservative)
- Steve Povey (Reform UK)
Abstained (6)
- Claudine Russell (Conservative)
- Denis Spooner (Conservative)
- Gill Fort (Conservative)
- John Perry (Conservative)
- Lottie Parfitt (Conservative)
- Martin Round (Conservative)
From the minutes
ng to the Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2026/27 be approved. In accordance with Council Procedure Rule 18.3, five Members requested that a named vote be taken on the motion. The voting was as follows: FOR (30) Councillors Barwick, Clark, Cleator, Coates, Conyard, Couch, Dawes, English, Field, Mrs Gooch, Greenan, Harper, Harwood, Jeffery, Jenkins-Baldock, Jones, Khadka, McKay, Milham, D Naghi, M Naghi, Rodwell, Summersgill, Sweetman, M Thompson, S Thompson, Wales, Wilby, D Wilkinson and J Wilkinson AGAINST (6) Councillors Burke, Cannon, Cooke, Forecast, Povey and Riordan ABSTENTIONS (6) Councillors Fort, Parfitt, Perry, Round, Russell and Spooner MOTION CARRIED RESOLVED: 1. That the move to a scheme (Appendix 1 to the report of the Cabinet) offering a maximum 100% Council Tax support be agreed
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