NOTICES OF MOTION (Standing Order 17)
Full council, 14 October 2026: a named vote on the motion.
For 37, Against 38, Abstained 5.
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 (37)
- Adam Thompson-Day (Reform UK)
- Andrew Mark Judson (Reform UK)
- Angela Jayne Baker (Reform UK)
- Chris Howlett (Reform UK)
- Chris Masterson (Reform UK)
- Darren Peter Ingham (Reform UK)
- Dawn Alison Thewlis (Reform UK)
- Ian David Evans (Reform UK)
- Ian Peter Eglin (Reform UK)
- Ian Reed (Reform UK)
- Ian Walker (Reform UK)
- Jason Mark Townend (Reform UK)
- Jayne Margaret Morgan (Reform UK)
- John Keith Riley-Holmes (Reform UK)
- John Sharples (Reform UK)
- Lester Graham Martin (Reform UK)
- Melanie Milnes (Reform UK)
- Oliver Darryl Bolton-Williams (Reform UK)
- Richard Brown (Reform UK)
- Robin Cumming (Reform UK)
- Sally Jane Birch (Reform UK)
- Stephen Anthony Place (Reform UK)
- Stephen Nigel Broadbent (Reform UK)
- Steve Burd (Reform UK)
- Stuart Alan Brown (Reform UK)
- Tony Wooffitt (Reform UK)
- Angela Marie Fish (Conservative)
- Bob Felstead (Conservative)
- Geoff Winnard (Conservative)
- George William Buckley (Conservative)
- Paul Golding (Conservative)
- Paul Sullivan (Conservative)
- Peter Benedict Kirk (Conservative)
- Raph Cohn (Conservative)
- Rebecca Poulsen (Conservative)
- Richard Michael Downey (Conservative)
- Ward-Nicolson (not matched to a member)
Against (38)
- Amjad Zaman (Labour)
- Carol Thirkill (Labour)
- Caroline Firth (Labour)
- Hassan Uzzaman Khan (Labour)
- Imran Khan (Labour)
- Kamran Hussain (Labour)
- Md Zafar Niaz (Labour)
- Nazam Azam (Labour)
- Rizwana Jamil (Labour)
- Shakeela Lal (Labour)
- Suhail Choudhry (Labour)
- Susan Fricker (Labour)
- Vasim Akhtar (Labour)
- Zafar Iqbal (Labour)
- Anna Watson (Green)
- Celia Hickson (Green)
- Hawarun Hussain (Green)
- Iain McInnes (Green)
- Kevin Warnes (Green)
- Khalid Mahmood (Green)
- Lottie Kitching (Green)
- Matt Edwards (Green)
- Nargus Rangzeb (Green)
- Aislin Naylor (Liberal Democrats)
- Alun Griffiths (Liberal Democrats)
- Rachel Sunderland (Liberal Democrats)
- Amjid Nazir Ahmed (Independent)
- Joe Wheatley (Independent)
- Peter Sidney Cochrane (Conservative)
- Ibrar Ali (not matched to a member)
- Ishtiaq Ahmed (not matched to a member)
- Mohammed Saliss (not matched to a member)
- Muhammad Haseeb Khan (not matched to a member)
- Muhammed Ali Islam (not matched to a member)
- Noor Elahi (not matched to a member)
- Taj Salam (not matched to a member)
- Vaz Shabir (not matched to a member)
- Zohair Kamran (not matched to a member)
Abstained (5)
- Andrew Loy (Conservative)
- Chris Herd (Conservative)
- David Michael Ford (Conservative)
- Debbie Davies (Conservative)
- Falak Ahmed (Conservative)
From the minutes
hewlis, Thirkill, Thompson-Day, Townend, Walker, Ward-Nicholson, Warnes, Watson, Wheatley, Wooffitt and Zaman. Abstention (1) Councillor Herd Record of voting on the Motion moved by Councillor Walker For the Motion (37): Councillors Baker, Birch, Bolton-Williams, Broadbent, R Brown, S Brown, Buckley, Burd, Cohn, Cumming, Downey, Eglin, Evans, Felstead, Fish, Golding, Howlett, Ingham, Judson, Kirk, Martin, Masterson, Milnes, Morgan, Place, Poulsen, Reed, Riley-Holmes, Sharples, Sullivan, Thewlis, Thompson-Day, Townend, Walker, Ward-Nicolson, Wooffitt and Winnard. Against the Motion (38): Councillors A Ahmed, I Ahmed, Akhtar, Ali, Azam, Choudhry, Cochrane, Edwards, Elahi, Firth, Fricker, Griffiths, Hickson, H Hussain, K Hussain, Iqbal, Islam, Jamil, Kamran, Kitching, H Khan, I Khan, M Khan, Lal, Mahmood, McInnes, Naylor, Niaz, Rangzeb, Salam, Saliss, Shabir, Sunderland, Thirkill, Warnes, Watson, Wheatley and Zaman. Abstentions (5): Councillors F Ahmed, Davies, Ford, Herd and Loy. 12.2 SUPPORTING WHITE WORKING CLASS CHILDREN As set out in the published agenda Motion 12.2 was moved by Councillor Birch and seconded by Councillor
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