Medium-Term Financial Strategy 2026-27
Full council, 11 December 2025: a named vote.
For 19, Against 10, 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 (19)
- Chris Bateson (Liberal Democrats)
- Greg Neall (Liberal Democrats)
- Harry Boparai (Liberal Democrats)
- Jolyon Caplin (Liberal Democrats)
- Kathy Grant (Liberal Democrats)
- Laura Barker (Liberal Democrats)
- Lawrence Nichols (Liberal Democrats)
- Michele Gibson (Liberal Democrats)
- Sandra Dunn (Liberal Democrats)
- Suraj Gyawali (Liberal Democrats)
- John Doran (Labour)
- Jon Button (Labour)
- Rebecca Geach (Labour)
- Sean Beatty (Labour)
- Sue Doran (Labour)
- Joanne Sexton (ISG)
- Katherine Rutherford (ISG)
- Michelle Arnold (ISG)
- Malcolm Beecher (not matched to a member)
Against (10)
- Buddhi Weerasinghe (Conservative)
- Darren Clarke (Conservative)
- Denise Saliagopoulos (Conservative)
- John Boughtflower (Conservative)
- Karen Howkins (Conservative)
- Lisa Brennan (Conservative)
- Mary Bing Dong (Conservative)
- Matthew Lee (Conservative)
- Maureen Attewell (Conservative)
- Med Buck (Conservative)
From the minutes
Councillor Howkins requested that a recorded vote be taken for all remaining items on the agenda. For Councillors J Doran, Dunn, Arnold, Barker, Bateson, Beatty, Beecher, Boparai, Button, Caplin, S Doran, Geach, Gibson, Grant, Gyawali, Neall, Nichols, Rutherford, Sexton, Williams – 20 votes Against Councillors Attewell, Bing Dong, Boughtflower, Brennan, Buck, Clarke, Howkins, Lee, Saliagopoulos, Weerasinghe, Woodward – 11 votes Abstain 0 votes Council resolved to: 1. Be informed and assured by the Draft Medium Financial Strategy set out in the report and that an updated strategy (reflecting impact
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.