Revenue Budget and Council Tax 2026/27
Full council, 18 February 2026: a named vote on the amendment, lost.
For 9, Against 30, Abstained 1.
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 (9)
- Brendon Bernard (Liberal Democrats)
- Carmina McConnell (Liberal Democrats)
- Dave Roberts (Liberal Democrats)
- Gary Blundell (Liberal Democrats)
- Ian Spratt (Liberal Democrats)
- Jim Webber (Liberal Democrats)
- Suzanne Nuri-Nixon (Liberal Democrats)
- Terry Laidlaw (Liberal Democrats)
- John Cook (Independent)
Against (30)
- Andrew Evans (Conservative)
- Daniel Elmer (Conservative)
- Delme Thompson (Conservative)
- Graham Minshull (Conservative)
- John Overton (Conservative)
- Jonathan Carver (Conservative)
- Jonathan Purle (Conservative)
- Josh Woolliscroft (Conservative)
- Kathryn Cross (Conservative)
- Keith Kiddie (Conservative)
- Kieran Murphy (Conservative)
- Kim Carsok (Conservative)
- Lisa Overton-Neal (Conservative)
- Margaret Dewsbury (Conservative)
- Martyn Hooton (Conservative)
- Richard Elliott (Conservative)
- Robert Savage (Conservative)
- The Lord Fuller OBE (Conservative)
- Trevor Graham (Conservative)
- Vic Thomson (Conservative)
- Deborah Sacks (Labour)
- Georgina Race (Labour)
- James Eddy (Labour)
- Jenny McCloskey (Labour)
- John Morland (Labour)
- Justin Cork (Labour)
- Michael Rosen (Labour)
- Nicola Fowler (Labour)
- Clayton Hudson (Independent)
- Mason Billig (not matched to a member)
Abstained (1)
- Suzanne Wateridge (Green)
From the minutes
existed, it should be communicated more clearly. A recorded vote on the amendment was then held as follows: Cllrs Bernard G Blundell, Cook, Laidlaw, McConnell, Nuri-Nixon, Roberts, Spratt, and Webber voted for the amendment Cllrs, Carsok, Carver, Cork, Cross, Dewsbury, Eddy, Elliott, Elmer, Evans, Fowler, Lord Fuller, Graham, Hooton, Hudson, Kiddie, Mason Billig, McCloskey, Minshull, Morland, Murphy, Overton, Overton-Neal, Purle, Race, Rosen, Sacks, Savage, D Thompson, V Thomson, and Woolliscroft, voted against the amendment. Cllr Wateridge abstained from the vote. With 9 in favour, 30 against and 1 abstention the amendment was lost. The Chair then turned to the substantive recommendations, and a recorded vote wa
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.