Budget and Policy Framework 2026/27 - 2030/31
Full council, 25 February 2026: a named vote, carried.
For 30, Against 4, Abstained 21.
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)
- Alan Greenwell (Liberal Democrats)
- Gerry Blaikie (Liberal Democrats)
- John Livermore (Liberal Democrats)
- Joyce Pritchard (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Hart (Liberal Democrats)
- Ross Hunter (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Bottoms (Morecambe Bay Independents)
- Roger Dennison (Morecambe Bay Independents)
- Andrew Otway (not matched to a member)
- Dave Brookes (not matched to a member)
- Gina Dowding (not matched to a member)
- Jack Lenox (not matched to a member)
- Jackson (Caroline) (not matched to a member)
- Jackson (Peter) (not matched to a member)
- James Sommerville (not matched to a member)
- Mandy Bannon (not matched to a member)
- Maria Deery (not matched to a member)
- Mills (Abi) (not matched to a member)
- Mills (Hamish) (not matched to a member)
- Nick Wilkinson (not matched to a member)
- Paul Stubbins (not matched to a member)
- Paul Tynan (not matched to a member)
- Sally Maddocks (not matched to a member)
- Sam Riches (not matched to a member)
- Sarah McGowan (not matched to a member)
- Sarah Punshon (not matched to a member)
- Sue Tyldesley (not matched to a member)
- Tim Hamilton-Cox (not matched to a member)
- Tom Fish (not matched to a member)
- Wilson Colley (not matched to a member)
Against (4)
- Andrew Gardiner (Conservative)
- John Wild (Conservative)
- Keith Budden (Conservative)
- Paul Newton (Conservative)
Abstained (21)
- Catherine Armistead (Labour)
- Catherine Potter (Labour)
- Chris Hanna (Labour)
- Claire Cozler (Labour)
- Colin Hartley JP (Labour)
- David Whitaker (Labour)
- Jackson Stubbs (Labour)
- Jason Wood (Labour)
- Joanne Ainscough (Labour)
- John Hanson (Labour)
- Louise Belcher (Labour)
- Margaret Pattison (Labour)
- Martin Gawith (Labour)
- Robert Redfern (Labour)
- Ruth Colbridge (Labour)
- Susan Penney (Labour)
- Philip Bradley (Independent)
- Roger Cleet (Independent)
- (Phillip) (not matched to a member)
- Black (Matthew)Black (not matched to a member)
- Prof Chris Harris (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
e subject to a recorded vote. Recommendations (4) & (5) of the report were simply for noting. A debate on the budget proposals followed before a recorded vote was taken on recommendations (1) to (3): For the proposition: Councillors, Bannon, Blaikie, Bottoms, Brookes, Colley, Deery, Dennison, Dowding, Fish, Greenwell, Hamilton-Cox, Hart, Hunter, Jackson (Caroline), Jackson (Peter), Lenox, Livermore, Maddocks, McGowan, Mills (Abi), Mills (Hamish), Otway, Pritchard, Punshon, Riches, Sommerville, Stubbins, Tyldesley, Tynan and Wilkinson.(30). Against the proposition: Councillors Budden, Gardiner, Newton and Wild. (4). Abstentions: Councillors Ainscough, Armistead, Belcher, Black (Matthew)Black, (Phillip), Bradley, Cleet, Colbridge, Cozler, Gawith, Hanna, Hanson, Harris, Hartley, Pattison, Penney, Potter, Redfern, Stubbs, Whitaker and Wood (21). Resolved: (1) That the General Fund Revenue Budget of £27.833M for 2026/27 be approved, resulting in a Council Tax Requirement of £11.931M, excludin
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