Minutes
Full council, 7 April 2025: a named vote on the motion, carried.
For 45, Against 0, Abstained 0.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Conservative. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
Only one side of this vote could be read from the minutes. The others may be recorded in a form that couldn't be read, or not at all.
For (45)
- Adam Hicken (Conservative)
- Amanda Parkes (Conservative)
- Amandeep Garcha (Conservative)
- Anthony Harris (Conservative)
- Christopher Towe (Conservative)
- Corin Statham (Conservative)
- Edward Lee (Conservative)
- Gary Flint (Conservative)
- Gurmeet Singh Sohal (Conservative)
- Izzy Hussain (Conservative)
- Jade Chapman (Conservative)
- John Murray (Conservative)
- Josh Whitehouse (Conservative)
- Keir Pedley (Conservative)
- Keith Sears (Conservative)
- Kenneth Ferguson (Conservative)
- Lorna Rattigan (Conservative)
- Louise Harrison (Conservative)
- Mark Statham (Conservative)
- Pard Kaur (Conservative)
- Poonam Gill (Conservative)
- Rob Larden (Conservative)
- Rose Martin (Conservative)
- Sarah Jane Cooper (Conservative)
- Stacie Elson (Conservative)
- Timothy Wilson (Conservative)
- Vera Waters (Conservative)
- Chris Bott (Labour)
- Emma Morgan (Labour)
- Lucie Nahal (Labour)
- Matt Ward (Labour)
- Paul Bott (Labour)
- Ram K. Mehmi MBE (Labour)
- Rose Burley (Labour)
- Simran Cheema (Labour)
- Tina Jukes (Labour)
- Aftab Nawaz (Walsall Community Independents)
- Naheed Gultasib (Walsall Community Independents)
- Sabina Ditta (Walsall Community Independents)
- Saiqa Nasreen (Walsall Community Independents)
- Shakila Begum Hussain (Independent)
- Andrew (not matched to a member)
- Bird (not matched to a member)
- Follows (not matched to a member)
- Russell (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
running up to Armed Forces Day. On being put to the vote, the motion was declared carried – the voting at the request of several members of the Council being recorded as follows: For the motion - 46 Against the motion - 0 Abstained - 0 Cllrs: Perry, Ward, Nawaz, Harris, Andrew, Bird, C. Bott, P. Bott, Burley, Chapman, Cheema, Cooper, Ditta, Elson, Ferguson, Flint, Follows, Garcha, Gill, Gultasib, Harrison, Hicken, I. Hussain, S.B. Hussain Jukes, Kaur, Larden, Lee, Martin, Mehmi, Morgan, Murray, Nahal, Nasreen, Parkes, Pedley, Rattigan, Russell, Sears, Singh Sohal C. Statham, M. Statham, Towe, Waters, Whitehouse, Wilson, Resolved: Veterans Day was announced in 2006, which in 2009 was subsequently renamed to Armed Forces Day. Armed Forces Day has now been held annually
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.