Budget Report and Medium Term Financial Strategy 2025/26 to 2027/28
Full council, 26 February 2025: a named vote on the motion, carried.
For 42, Against 1, Abstained 9.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Labour. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (42)
- Aasim Rashid (Labour)
- Aftab Hussain (Labour)
- Aiza Rashid (Labour)
- Amber Nisa (Labour)
- Amna Mir (Labour)
- Angela Brown (Labour)
- Bev Place (Labour)
- Billy Sheerin (Labour)
- Carol Wardle (Labour)
- Daalat Ali (Labour)
- Dylan James Williams (Labour)
- Elizabeth Atewologun (Labour)
- Faisal Rana (Labour)
- Iftikhar Ahmed (Labour)
- Iram Faisal (Labour)
- Janet Emsley (Labour)
- John Blundell (Labour)
- June West (Labour)
- Kathryn Bromfield (Labour)
- Liam O'Rourke (Labour)
- Mohammad Arshad (Labour)
- Neil Emmott (Labour)
- Patricia Mary Dale (Labour)
- Paul O'Neill (Labour)
- Peter Hodgkinson (Labour)
- Peter Joinson (Labour)
- Peter Williams (Labour)
- Phil Burke (Labour)
- Philip Massey (Labour)
- Rachel Massey (Labour)
- Richard Jackson (Labour)
- Sameena Zaheer (Labour)
- Shah Wazir (Labour)
- Shakil Ahmed (Labour)
- Shaun O'Neill (Labour)
- Susan Emmott (Labour)
- Susan Smith (Labour)
- Terry Smith (Labour)
- Tom Besford (Labour)
- Tricia Ayrton (Labour)
- David Bamford (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Beswick (Middleton Independents Party)
Against (1)
- Minaam Ellahi (Workers Party)
Abstained (9)
- Adam Branton (Conservative)
- Angela Smith (Conservative)
- Ashley Dearnley (Conservative)
- James Gartside (Conservative)
- Michael Holly (Conservative)
- Peter Winkler (Conservative)
- Philip Beal (Conservative)
- Stephen Anstee (Conservative)
- Keeley O'Mara (Middleton Independents Party)
From the minutes
alternative budget motion was then put to the vote and subsequently fell. The original motion to approve the recommendations as set out in the report were then voted upon by means of a recorded vote. Voting for the motion: Councillors I. Ahmed, S. Ahmed, Ali, Arshad, Atewologun, Ayrton, Bamford, Besford, Beswick, J. Blundell, Bromfield, Brown, Burke, Dale, N. Emmott, S. Emmott, Emsley, Faisal, Hodgkinson, Hussain, Jackson, Joinson, P. Massey, R. Massey, Mir, Nisa, P. O'Neill, S. O'Neill, O'Rourke, Place, Rana, Aasim Rashid, Aiza Rashid, Sheerin, S. Smith, T. Smith, Wardle, Wazir, West, D. Williams, P. Williams, and Zaheer. Voting against the motion: Councillor Ellahi. Abstaining on the motion: Councillors Anstee, Beal, Branton, Dearnley, Gartside, Holly, O'Mara, A. Smith, and Winkler. RESOLVED – 1. That the proposed revenue budget position as submitted in the Budget Report be approved. 2. That the level of Council Tax increase at
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