2025/26 Budget and Medium-Term Financial Strategy
Full council, 3 March 2025: a named vote on the amendment, lost.
For 20, Against 42, 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 (20)
- Amanda Onwuemene (Green)
- Christopher Cooke (Green)
- Ed Lamb (Green)
- Ewan Tomeny (Green)
- Gail Jenkinson (Green)
- Harry Gorman (Green)
- Jo Bird (Green)
- Judith Grier (Green)
- Kieran Murphy (Green)
- Naomi Graham (Green)
- Pat Cleary (Green)
- Ruth Molyneux (Green)
- Allan Brame (Liberal Democrats)
- Chris Carubia (Liberal Democrats)
- Helen Raymond (Liberal Democrats)
- Mike Redfern (Liberal Democrats)
- Phil Gilchrist (Liberal Democrats)
- Stuart Kelly (Liberal Democrats)
- C Walsh-McDonald (not matched to a member)
- J Walsh-McDonald (not matched to a member)
Against (42)
- Angela Davies (Labour)
- Brenda Hall (Labour)
- Brian Kenny (Labour)
- George Davies (Labour)
- Gillian Wood (Labour)
- Graeme Cooper (Labour)
- Grahame McManus (Labour)
- Janette Williamson (Labour)
- Jean Robinson (Labour)
- Jerry Williams (Labour)
- Julie McManus (Labour)
- Kaitlin Stuart (Labour)
- Mark Skillicorn (Labour)
- Mike Sullivan (Labour)
- Paul Jobson (Labour)
- Paul Martin (Labour)
- Paul Stuart (Labour)
- Paula Basnett (Labour)
- Richie Pitt (Labour)
- Stephen Bennett (Labour)
- Steve Foulkes (Labour)
- Sue Powell-Wilde (Labour)
- Tom Laing (Labour)
- Tony Jones MBE (Labour)
- Tony Murphy (Labour)
- Andrew Gardner (Conservative)
- Andrew Hodson (Conservative)
- Colin Baldwin (Conservative)
- Gary Bennett (Conservative)
- Helen Cameron (Conservative)
- Ian Lewis (Conservative)
- Jeff Green (Conservative)
- Kathy Hodson (Conservative)
- Lesley Rennie (Conservative)
- Mary Jordan (Conservative)
- Max Booth (Conservative)
- Simon R Mountney (Conservative)
- Tony Cox (Conservative)
- Vida Wilson (Conservative)
- J Stuart-Laing (not matched to a member)
- L Grey (not matched to a member)
- L Luxton-Kewley (not matched to a member)
Abstained (1)
- Cherry Povall MBE JP (Conservative)
From the minutes
binson then spoke as seconders to the amendment. Councillors Paul Stuart, Jo Bird and Phil Gilchrist then replied to the debate. In respect of the Green Group amendment, the Council voted as follows: For the amendment (20) - Councillors, J Bird, A Brame, C Carubia, P Cleary, C Cooke, P Gilchrist, H Gorman, N Graham, J Grier, G Jenkinson, S Kelly, E Lamb, R Molyneux, K Murphy, A Onwuemene, H Raymond, M Redfern, E Tomeny, C Walsh-McDonald, J Walsh-McDonald Against the amendment – (42) – Councillors, C Baldwin, P Basnett, Gary Bennett, Stephen Bennett, M Booth, H Cameron, G Cooper, T Cox, A Davies, G Davies, S Foulkes, A Gardner, J Green, L Grey, B Hall, A Hodson, K Hodson, P Jobson, T Jones, M Jordan, B Kenny, T Laing, I Lewis, L Luxton-Kewley, P Martin, G McManus, J McManus, S Mountney, T Murphy, R Pitt, S Powell-Wilde, L Rennie, J Robinson, M Skillicorn, J Stuart-Laing, K Stuart, P Stuart, M Sullivan, J Williams, J Williamson, V Wilson, G Wood Abstention – (1) Councillor Cherry Povall The amendment was therefore lost (42:20) 1 abstention. In respect of the Labour Group budget motion as amended the Council Voted as follows, For the
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