Parental Leave Policy for Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Members
Full council, 1 October 2025: a named vote on the motion.
For 29, Against 2, Abstained 0.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Liberal Democrats. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (29)
- Adrian Pitts (Liberal Democrats)
- Ben Chapelard (Liberal Democrats)
- Brendon Le Page (Liberal Democrats)
- Christopher Hall (Liberal Democrats)
- Corinna Keefe (Liberal Democrats)
- Courtney Souper (Liberal Democrats)
- David Osborne (Liberal Democrats)
- Don Kent (Liberal Democrats)
- Hugh Patterson (Liberal Democrats)
- Justine Rutland (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Munday (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Brice (Liberal Democrats)
- Matt Lowe (Liberal Democrats)
- Pamela Wilkinson (Liberal Democrats)
- Richard Brown (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Wormington (Liberal Democrats)
- Alex Britcher-Allan (Labour)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Jayne Sharratt (Labour)
- Victoria Taylor Jones (Labour)
- David Knight (Conservative)
- David Somers (Conservative)
- Ms Beverley Palmer (Conservative)
- Thomas Mobbs (Conservative)
- Ellen Neville (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Matthew Sankey (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Nancy Warne (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
Against (2)
- Lynne Darrah (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
From the minutes
usiness, removing the SRA would effectively be punishing them twice. This was why the recommendation was to keep both the Basic Allowance and the SRA. Councillor Sankey had requested a recorded vote: Members who voted for the motion: Councillors, Chapelard, Wilkinson, Rutland, Hall, Wormington, Lowe, Brice, Brown, Keefe, Kent, Le Page, Munday, Patterson, Pitts, Souper, Knight, Mobbs, Somers, Britcher-Allan, Hill, Jones, Pound, Sharratt, Neville, Sankey, Warne, Hayward, Palmer, Osborne (29) Members who voted against the motion: Dawlings, Darrah (2) Members who abstained from voting: (0) RESOLVED – That Full Council approves the adoption of a Parental Leave Policy for Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Members as in the attached Draft Po
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.