* GRA Budget Setting and 3 year Medium Term Finance Plan
Full council, 26 February 2026: a named vote, carried.
For 23, Against 18, Abstained 3.
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 (23)
- Andy Fowler (Labour)
- Anne Mary Fennell (Labour)
- Carl Coughlan (Labour)
- Gareth Dowling (Labour)
- Gaynar Owen (Labour)
- John Fillis (Labour)
- Judy Abbott (Labour)
- Mark Anderson (Labour)
- Maureen Nixon (Labour)
- Melissa S Parlour (Labour)
- Nicola Pryce-Roberts (Labour)
- Patricia Burnside (Labour)
- Paul Hennessy (Labour)
- Rob Molloy (Labour)
- Sarah E Lawton (Labour)
- Suresh Patel (Labour)
- Terence Devine (Labour)
- Terry Aldridge (Labour)
- Vickie Cummins (Labour)
- Yvonne Gagen (Labour)
- Julian Antoni Finch (Independent)
- Nikki Hennessy (Independent)
- West (TWENTY-THREE) (not matched to a member)
Against (18)
- Alexander Blundell (Conservative)
- David Whittington (Conservative)
- Edward Pope (Conservative)
- Ian Eccles (Conservative)
- John Gordon (Conservative)
- John Howard (Conservative)
- John Mee (Conservative)
- Katie Juckes (Conservative)
- Mrs Jane Marshall (Conservative)
- Mrs Marilyn Westley (Conservative)
- Robert Bailey (Conservative)
- Thomas de Freitas (Conservative)
- Adrian Owens (Our West Lancashire)
- Ian Rigby (Our West Lancashire)
- Janet Ingman (Our West Lancashire)
- Linda Marjorie Webster (Our West Lancashire)
- Neil Furey (Our West Lancashire)
- Witter (EIGHTEEN) (not matched to a member)
Abstained (3)
- Paul David Hesketh (Our West Lancashire)
- Paul Hogan (Your Party)
- Johnson (THREE) (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
Committee had been attached as an Appendix to the report. In accordance with the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, voting on Motion was recorded as follows: FOR: Councillors: Abbott, Aldridge, Anderson, Burnside, Coughlan, Cummins, Devine, Dowling, Fennell, Fillis, Finch, Fowler, Gagen, N Hennessy, P Hennessy, Lawton, Molloy, Nixon, G Owen, Parlour, Patel, Pryce-Roberts and West (TWENTY-THREE) AGAINST: Councillors: Bailey, Blundell, Eccles, de Freitas, Furey, Gordon, Howard, Ingman, Juckes, Mrs Marshall, Mee, Owens, Pope, Rigby, Webster, Mrs Westley, Whittington and Witter (EIGHTEEN) ABSTENTIONS: Councillors Hesketh, Hogan, and Johnson (THREE) The Motion was CARRIED. RESOLVED: A. That the General Revenue Account (GRA) budget for 2026/27 be approved based on the proposals to be presented at
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