Detailed Budget and Medium Term Financial Strategy
Full council, 26 February 2026: a named vote.
For 20, Against 3, 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 (20)
- Chris Bateson (Liberal Democrats)
- Greg Neall (Liberal Democrats)
- Harry Boparai (Liberal Democrats)
- John Turner (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)
- Jon Button (Labour)
- Rebecca Geach (Labour)
- Sean Beatty (Labour)
- Sue Doran (Labour)
- Tony Burrell (Labour)
- Daniel Geraci (ISG)
- Joanne Sexton (ISG)
- Matthew Lee (Conservative)
- Malcolm Beecher (not matched to a member)
Against (3)
- Darren Clarke (Conservative)
- Denise Saliagopoulos (Conservative)
- Karen Howkins (Conservative)
Abstained (9)
- Anant Mathur (Conservative)
- John Boughtflower (Conservative)
- Maureen Attewell (Conservative)
- Med Buck (Conservative)
- Simon Bhadye (Conservative)
- Sinead Mooney (Conservative)
- Katherine Rutherford (ISG)
- Michelle Arnold (ISG)
- Mary Bing Dong (UnInd)
From the minutes
As required by the Local Authorities (Standing Orders)(England) Regulations 2001 (as amended), the Council was required to hold a recorded vote on the substantive Revenue Budget. For Councillors Dunn, Barker, Bateson, Beatty, Beecher, Boparai, Burrell, Button, Caplin, S Doran, Geach, Geraci, Gibson, Grant, Gyawali, Lee, Neall, Nichols, Sexton, Turner, Williams – 21 votes Against Councillors Clarke, Howkins, Saliagopoulos, Woodward – 4 votes Abstain Councillors Arnold, Attewell, Bhadye, Bing Dong, Boughtflower, Buck, Mathur, Mooney, Rutherford, Weerasinghe – 10 votes Council resolved to: 1. Approve the General Fund Revenue Budget for 2026/27 including: a) The General Fund Budget Requirement of £19.318m for 2026/27 b) Grow
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.