Cabinet - 2026/27 to 2029/30 Medium Term Financial Plan & 2026/27 Budget Setting
Full council, 25 February 2026: a named vote, carried.
For 33, Against 18, Abstained 0.
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 (33)
- Adam Parkes (Labour)
- Andrew Church (Labour)
- Bill Cawley (Labour)
- Charlotte Atkins (Labour)
- Chris Wood (Labour)
- Crecy Boone (Labour)
- Darren Price (Labour)
- Dave Proudlove (Labour)
- Gareth Taylor (Labour)
- Keith Hoptroff (Labour)
- Liz Whitehouse (Labour)
- Lyn Swindlehurst (Labour)
- Mark Johnson (Labour)
- Matt Swindlehurst (Labour)
- Matthew Spooner (Labour)
- Mike Gledhill (Labour)
- Mike Haines (Labour)
- Nigel Yates (Labour)
- Philip Barks (Labour)
- Vicky Wheeldon (Labour)
- Andrew Hart (Independent)
- Charlie Smith (Independent)
- Ian Plant (Independent)
- Jill Salt (Independent)
- Jim Garvey (Independent)
- John Jones (Independent)
- Kate Mills (Independent)
- Linda Malyon (Independent)
- Peter Wilkinson (Independent)
- Connor Brady (Green)
- Jonathan Kempster (Green)
- Christina Jebb (Liberal Democrats)
- Pascal (not matched to a member)
Against (18)
- Alan Hulme (Conservative)
- Barbara Hughes (Conservative)
- Ben Emery (Conservative)
- Callum Beswick (Conservative)
- Charlotte Edwards (Conservative)
- David Shaw (Conservative)
- Edwin Wain (Conservative)
- Elsie Fallows (Conservative)
- Ian Herdman (Conservative)
- James Aberley (Conservative)
- Jo Cox (Conservative)
- Joe Porter (Conservative)
- Keith Flunder (Conservative)
- Mark Deaville (Conservative)
- Paul Roberts (Conservative)
- Ross Ward (Conservative)
- Tony Holmes (Conservative)
- Gary Bentley (Reform UK)
From the minutes
thanked officers for their work on the various elements of the budget. In accordance with the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, councillors voted as follows: Those voting FOR: Councillors Atkins, Barks, Boone, Brady, Cawley, Church, Garvey, Gledhill, Haines, Hart, Hoptroff, Jebb, Johnson, Jones, Kempster, Malyon, Mills, Parkes, Pascal, Plant, Price, Proudlove, Salt, Smith, Spooner, L. Swindlehurst, M. Swindlehurst, Taylor, Wheeldon, Whitehouse, Wilkinson, Wood and Yates (33) Those voting AGAINST: Councillors Aberley, Bentley, Beswick, Cox, Deaville, Edwards, Emery, Fallows, Flunder, Herdman, Holmes, B. Hughes, Hulme, Porter, Roberts, Shaw, Wain, and Ward (18) ABSTENTIONS: None It was therefore RESOLVED as follows: 1. That the General Fund Budget for 2026/27 as detailed in Appendix A (section 8) be approved. 2. That the revi
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.