Voluntary Joint Committee
Full council, 11 December 2025: a named vote.
For 15, Against 1, Abstained 9.
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 (15)
- Chris Bateson (Liberal Democrats)
- Greg Neall (Liberal Democrats)
- Jolyon Caplin (Liberal Democrats)
- Kathy Grant (Liberal Democrats)
- Lawrence Nichols (Liberal Democrats)
- Michele Gibson (Liberal Democrats)
- Sandra Dunn (Liberal Democrats)
- John Doran (Labour)
- Jon Button (Labour)
- Sean Beatty (Labour)
- Sue Doran (Labour)
- Joanne Sexton (ISG)
- Katherine Rutherford (ISG)
- Michelle Arnold (ISG)
- Malcolm Beecher (not matched to a member)
Against (1)
- Med Buck (Conservative)
Abstained (9)
- John Boughtflower (Conservative)
- Karen Howkins (Conservative)
- Lisa Brennan (Conservative)
- Mary Bing Dong (Conservative)
- Matthew Lee (Conservative)
- Maureen Attewell (Conservative)
- Harry Boparai (Liberal Democrats)
- Laura Barker (Liberal Democrats)
- Suraj Gyawali (Liberal Democrats)
From the minutes
A recorded vote was taken. For Councillors J Doran, Dunn, Arnold, Bateson, Beatty, Beecher, Button, Caplin, S Doran, Gibson, Grant, Neall, Nichols, Rutherford, Sexton, Williams – 16 votes Against Councillors Buck and Woodward – 2 votes Abstain Councillors Attewell, Barker, Bing Dong, Boughtflower, Brennan, Gyawali, Lee, Saliagopoulos – 8 votes Councillors Arnold, Attewell, Barker, Boughtflower, Boparai, Howkins, Weerasinghe left the Chamber before the vote was taken to approve all the recommendations in the report. Council resolved to: 1. Note the updates for Local Government Reorganisation in
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.