Council Tax Reductions Scheme 2022-23
Full council, 6 October 2021: a named vote on the motion.
For 29, Against 7, 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 (29)
- Alan McDermott (Conservative)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- Bill Hills (Conservative)
- Bob Backhouse (Conservative)
- Chris Woodward (Conservative)
- Christian Atwood (Conservative)
- David Scott (Conservative)
- Godfrey Bland (Conservative)
- Harry Allen (Conservative)
- James Scholes (Conservative)
- Jane March (Conservative)
- Joe Simmons (Conservative)
- Lance Goodship (Conservative)
- Ms Beverley Palmer (Conservative)
- Patrick Thomson (Conservative)
- Paul Barrington-King (Conservative)
- Sarah Hamilton (Conservative)
- Seán Holden (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
- Ben Chapelard (Liberal Democrats)
- Christopher Hall (Liberal Democrats)
- Justine Rutland (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Lidstone (Liberal Democrats)
- Trevor Poile (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrew Hickey (Independent)
- James Rands (Independent)
- Nancy Warne (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Dr Hall (not matched to a member)
- Matthew Bailey (not matched to a member)
Against (7)
- Alain Lewis (Labour)
- Alex Britcher-Allan (Labour)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Luke Everitt (Labour)
- Rodney Atkins (Independent)
- Lucy Willis (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
Abstained (6)
- Hugh Patterson (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Wormington (Liberal Democrats)
- Wendy Fitzsimmons (Liberal Democrats)
- David Knight (Conservative)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
- Nicholas Pope (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
From the minutes
e by the Council. · Relief between 75 and 85 per cent was normal. · A review should be undertaken once a full year's data had been completed. Councillor Pound requested a recorded vote on the motion. Members who voted for the motion: Councillors Allen, Atwood, Backhouse, Bailey, Barrington-King, Bland, Chapelard, Dawlings, Fairweather, Goodship, C. Hall, Dr Hall, Hamilton, Hickey, B. Hills, Holden, Lidstone, March, McDermott, Ms Palmer, Poile, Rands, Rutland, Scholes, Scott, Simmons, Thomson, Warne and Woodward. (29) Members who voted against the motion: Councillors Atkins, Britcher-Allan, Everitt, D. Hill, Lewis, Pound and Willis. (7) Members who abstained from voting: Councillors Fitzsimmons, Hayward, Knight, Patterson, Pope and Wormington. (6) RESOLVED – 1. That the progress of the inaugural year of the income banded Council Tax Reduction Scheme be noted; and 2. That no changes be made
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