Budget and Council Tax setting: 2026 to 2027 and Medium Term Financial Strategy 2026 to 2030
Full council, 24 February 2026: a named vote on the motion.
For 28, Against 27, 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 (28)
- Andrew Smith (Conservative)
- Andrew Speed (Conservative)
- Andy Drummond (Conservative)
- Beccy Hopfensperger (Conservative)
- Birgitte Mager (Conservative)
- Carol Bull (Conservative)
- Charlie Lynch (Conservative)
- Joe Mason (Conservative)
- John Augustine (Conservative)
- Karen Richardson (Conservative)
- Karen Soons (Conservative)
- Margaret Marks (Conservative)
- Marion Rushbrook (Conservative)
- Mike Chester (Conservative)
- Nick Clarke (Conservative)
- Patrick Chung (Conservative)
- Rachel Hood (Conservative)
- Richard Rout (Conservative)
- Sara Mildmay-White (Conservative)
- Sarah Broughton (Conservative)
- Sarah Pugh (Conservative)
- Sarah Stamp (Conservative)
- Susan Glossop (Conservative)
- Aaron Luccarini (Independent)
- Paul Firman (Independent)
- Tony Brown (Independent)
- Adrian Whittle (Reform UK)
- Ian Houlder (Reform UK)
Against (27)
- Andrew Martin (Labour)
- Cliff Waterman (Labour)
- David Smith (Labour)
- Diane Hind (Labour)
- Donna Higgins (Labour)
- Indy Wijenayaka (Labour)
- Janne Jarvis (Labour)
- Kevin Yarrow (Labour)
- Liz Smith (Labour)
- Marilyn Sayer (Labour)
- Pat Hanlon (Labour)
- Peter Armitage (Labour)
- Richard O'Driscoll (Labour)
- Rowena Lindberg (Labour)
- Frank Stennett (Independent)
- Gerald Kelly (Independent)
- Ian Shipp (Independent)
- Jim Thorndyke (Independent)
- Jools Savage (Independent)
- Phil Wittam (Independent)
- Richard Alecock (Independent)
- Julia Wakelam (Green)
- Jon London (Liberal Democrats)
- Lora-Jane Miller-Jones (No party recorded)
- David Taylor (not matched to a member)
- Michael Anderson (not matched to a member)
- Victor Lukaniuk (not matched to a member)
Abstained (1)
- Don Waldron (Reform UK)
From the minutes
e. With 56 members present, the votes recorded were 28 votes for the amendment, 27 against, and 1 abstention; the names of those members voting for, against and abstaining, being recorded as follows: For the motion: Councillors Augustine, Broughton, Brown, Bull, Chester, Chung, Clarke, Drummond, Firman, Glossop, Hood, Hopfensperger, Houlder, Luccarini, Lynch, Mager, Marks, Mason, Mildmay-White, Pugh, Richardson, Rout, Rushbrook, Andrew Smith, Speed, Soons, Stamp and Whittle. Against the motion: Councillors Alecock, Anderson, Armitage, Hanlon, Higgins, Hind, Jarvis, Kelly, Lindberg, London, Lukaniuk, Martin, Miller-Jones, O'Driscoll, Savage, Sayer, Shipp, David Smith, Liz Smith, Stennett, Taylor, Thorndyke, Wakelam, Waterman, Wijenayaka, Wittam and Yarrow. Abstentions: Councillor Don Waldron. It was therefore Resolved: That the following recommendations be included as additions to those set out in Report number: COU/WS/26/005: That a new
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