Communicating Council Policy Making
Full council, 24 September 2026: a named vote on the motion.
For 26, Against 30, Abstained 0.
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 (26)
- Amanda Wintcher (Liberal Democrats)
- Christopher Ord (Liberal Democrats)
- Daniel Duggan (Liberal Democrats)
- Dawn Welsh (Liberal Democrats)
- Jonathan Mohammed (Liberal Democrats)
- Jonathan Wallace (Liberal Democrats)
- Marilynn Ord (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Diston (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Craig BEM (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Maughan (Liberal Democrats)
- Ron Beadle (Liberal Democrats)
- Susan Craig (Liberal Democrats)
- Becky Skoyles (Labour)
- Chris Buckley (Labour)
- Denise Robson (Labour)
- Jamie Park (Labour)
- John Adams (Labour)
- Kathleen McCartney (Labour)
- Kathryn Henderson (Labour)
- Lynne Caffrey (Labour)
- Michael McNestry (Labour)
- Shaun Edge (Labour)
- Stephen Gibson (Labour)
- Mark Gorman (Green)
- Melissa Harker (Green)
- Rachel Cabral (Green)
Against (30)
- Alan Brown (Reform UK)
- Alison Porritt (Reform UK)
- Andrew Wallace (Reform UK)
- Col Daughtry (Reform UK)
- Craig Heathcote (Reform UK)
- David Simpson (Reform UK)
- Derek Finch (Reform UK)
- Edwin Snaith (Reform UK)
- Fiona Pearce (Reform UK)
- Gavin Brierley (Reform UK)
- Gillian Jackson (Reform UK)
- Graham Keating (Reform UK)
- Hillary Thompson (Reform UK)
- James Wright (Reform UK)
- Lindsay Atkinson (Reform UK)
- Martin Turnbull (Reform UK)
- Michael Lamport (Reform UK)
- Michelle Merrin (Reform UK)
- Neil Carpenter (Reform UK)
- Neil Whittle (Reform UK)
- Nick Allan (Reform UK)
- Pedro Santos (Reform UK)
- Roger Maraj (Reform UK)
- Ronnie Jackson (Reform UK)
- Sandra Pickering (Reform UK)
- Sidney Laws (Reform UK)
- Steve Campion (Reform UK)
- Steve Tweddle (Reform UK)
- Steven Mullins (Reform UK)
- William Pay (Reform UK)
From the minutes
omes the Policy of the Council until it has gone through our processes. In accordance with Council Procedure Rule 20.2, a recorded vote was requested by more than 10 councillors and taken as follows: Councillors for the motion: - J Adams, R Beadle, C Buckley, R Cabral, L Caffrey, P Craig, S Craig, P Diston, D Duggan, S Edge, S Gibson, M Gorman, M Harker, K Henderson, P Maughan, K McCartney, M McNestry, J Mohammed, C Ord, M Ord, J Park, D Robson, B Skoyles, J Wallace, D Welsh, A Wintcher. Councillors against the motion: - N Allan, L Atkinson, G Brierley, A Brown, S Campion, N Carpenter, C Daughtry, D Finch, C Heathcote, G Jackson, R Jackson, G Keating, M Lamport, S Laws, R Maraj, M Merrin, S Mullins, W Pay, F Pearce, S Pickering, A Porritt, P Santos, D Simpson, E Snaith, H Thompson, M Turnbull, S Tweddle, A Wallace, N Whittle, J Wright. The motion on being put to the meeting was defeated.
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.