Recommendation from Cabinet - Budget and Council Tax 2026-27 and Medium Term Financial Strategy
Full council, 4 March 2026: a named vote.
For 35, Against 18, Abstained 2.
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 (35)
- Amanda Clarke (Labour)
- Angham Ahmed (Labour)
- Brian Steele (Labour)
- Cameron McKiernan (Labour)
- Chris Read (Labour)
- Dave Jackson (Labour)
- Denise Lelliott (Labour)
- Donna Sutton (Labour)
- Eve Rose Keenan (Labour)
- Gillian Garnett (Labour)
- Gina Monk (Labour)
- James Mault (Labour)
- Jamie Baggaley (Labour)
- Joanna Baker-Rogers (Labour)
- John Williams (Labour)
- Linda Beresford (Labour)
- Liz Duncan (Labour)
- Lynda Marshall (Labour)
- Lyndsay Robinson (Labour)
- Nigel Harper (Labour)
- Rachel Hughes (Labour)
- Rajmund Brent (Labour)
- Robert Taylor (Labour)
- Rukhsana Ismail (Labour)
- Saghir Alam OBE (Labour)
- Sarah Ann Allen (Labour)
- Sheila Cowen (Labour)
- Terry Adair (Labour)
- Victoria Cusworth (Labour)
- of Rotherham (Councillor Haroon Rashid) (Labour)
- Dave Sheppard (Independent)
- Ian Jones (Independent)
- Michael Bennett-Sylvester (Independent)
- Rob Elliott (Independent)
- Simon Currie (Independent)
Against (18)
- Adam Tinsley BEM (Conservative)
- David Fisher (Conservative)
- Greg Reynolds (Conservative)
- John Blackham (Conservative)
- Joshua Bacon (Conservative)
- Julia Hall (Conservative)
- Lynda Stables (Conservative)
- Paul Thorp (Conservative)
- Simon Ball (Conservative)
- Sophie Castledine-Dack (Conservative)
- Tim Baum-Dixon (Conservative)
- Tom Collingham (Conservative)
- Zachary Collingham (Conservative)
- Adam Carter (Liberal Democrats)
- Charlotte Carter (Liberal Democrats)
- Drew Tarmey (Liberal Democrats)
- Taiba Yasseen (Independent)
- Tony Harrison (Reform UK)
Abstained (2)
- Mick Bower (Green)
- Ashiq Hussain (Independent)
From the minutes
l Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, and the Council's Constitution, a recorded vote was taken for this item, on the proposals as set out in the report, as follows: For: Councillors Adair, Ahmed, Alam, Allen, Baggaley, Baker-Rogers, Bennett-Sylvester, Beresford, Brent, Clarke, Cowen, Currie, Cusworth, Duncan, Elliott, Garnett, Harper, Hughes, Ismail, Jackson, Jones, Keenan, Lelliott, Marshall, Mault, McKiernan, Monk, Pitchley, Rashid, Read, Sheppard, Steele, Sutton, Taylor and Williams. (35) Against: Councillors Bacon, Ball, Baum-Dixon, Blackham, A. Carter, C. Carter, Castledine-Dack, T. Collingham, Z. Collingham, Fisher, Hall, Harrison, Reynolds, Stables, Tarmey, Thorp, Tinsley and Yasseen. (18) Abstention: Councillors Bower and Hussain. (2) Resolved: That Council: 1. Approves the Budget and Financial Strategy for 2026/27 as set out in the report and appendices, including a basic Cou
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