Minutes
Full council, 24 June 2026: a named vote.
For 61, Against 0, Abstained 4.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Reform UK. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (61)
- Abbey Purcell (Reform UK)
- Adrian Pickering (Reform UK)
- Alan Davies (Reform UK)
- Andrew Ramsey (Reform UK)
- Anthony Ormond (Reform UK)
- Bill Blackett (Reform UK)
- Bruce Allcroft (Reform UK)
- Carol Giles (Reform UK)
- Carole Allcroft (Reform UK)
- Christopher Eynon (Reform UK)
- Ciera Hudspith (Reform UK)
- Colin Wright (Reform UK)
- Daniel Cowie (Reform UK)
- David Barker (Reform UK)
- David Laing (Reform UK)
- David Wales (Reform UK)
- Elizabeth Brown (Reform UK)
- Elouise Redmayne (Reform UK)
- Emily Lopez (Reform UK)
- Glenn Gibbins (Reform UK)
- Heather Finlay (Reform UK)
- Helen Greener (Reform UK)
- Ian Hembrough (Reform UK)
- Ian Jones (Reform UK)
- James Jackson (Reform UK)
- Jamie Scott (Reform UK)
- Jeffrey Shaw (Reform UK)
- John Arthur Watson (Reform UK)
- Jonathon Emerson (Reform UK)
- Joseph Francomb Parkin (Reform UK)
- Julia Ann Irwing (Reform UK)
- Kirsty Alder (Reform UK)
- Lynda Andrews (Reform UK)
- Marie McCarty (Reform UK)
- Mark Wynn (Reform UK)
- Michael Leadbitter (Reform UK)
- Michael Quigley (Reform UK)
- Pamela Taylor (Reform UK)
- Paul Donaghy (Reform UK)
- Richard Vardy (Reform UK)
- Robert Pattison (Reform UK)
- Russell Giles (Reform UK)
- Sandra Hobson-Tate (Reform UK)
- Shaun Conley (Reform UK)
- Steven Paterson (Reform UK)
- Thomas Steele (Reform UK)
- Heather Fagan (Liberal Democrats)
- Malcolm Bond (Liberal Democrats)
- Margaret Crosby (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Haswell (Liberal Democrats)
- Michael Peacock (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Edgeworth (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Gibson (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Walton (Liberal Democrats)
- Stephen O'Brien (Liberal Democrats)
- Steven Donkin (Liberal Democrats)
- Brandon Feeley (Labour)
- Caroline Comer (Labour)
- Ehthesham Haque (Labour)
- Fiona Tobin (Labour)
- Joanne Chapman (Labour)
Abstained (4)
- Glenda Hall (Reform UK)
- Janis Berzemnieks (Reform UK)
- Jason King (Reform UK)
- Saleem Memon (Reform UK)
From the minutes
of the Council, Councillor Chris Eynon, duly seconded by Councillor Cowie, moved the report of the Cabinet. A vote was taken in relation to item 1, Honorary Freedom of the City of Sunderland, with 61 Members voting in favour: - Councillors Alder, B Allcroft, C Allcroft, Andrews, Barker, Blackett, Bond, Brown, Chapman, Comer, Conley, Cowie, Crosby, Davies, Donaghy, Donkin, Edgeworth, Emerson, Eynon, Fagan, Feeley, Finlay, Gibbins, Gibson, C Giles, R Giles, Greener, Haque, Haswell, Hembrough, Hobson-Tate, Hudspith, Irwing, Jackson, Jones, Laing, Leadbitter, Lopez, McCarty, O'Brien, Ormond, Parkin, Paterson, Pattison, Peacock, A Pickering, Purcell, Quigley, Ramsey, Redmayne, Scott, Shaw, Steele, Taylor, Tobin, Vardy, Wales, Walton, Watson, Wright, Wynn, And four Members abstaining: - Councillors Berzemnieks, Hall, King, Memon, A vote was taken in relation to item 2, Port of Sunderland Byelaws, with 41 members voting in favour: - Councillors Alder, B Allcroft, C Allcroft, Andrews, Barker, Berzemnieks, Blackett, Chapman, Comer, Cowie, Davies, Donaghy,
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.