Medium Term Financial Strategy 2026-29
Full council, 26 February 2026: a named vote on the amendment, lost.
For 16, Against 40, Abstained 0.
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 (16)
- Andy Waters (Liberal Democrats)
- Chris Wray (Liberal Democrats)
- Clive Pickering (Liberal Democrats)
- David Greenhough (Liberal Democrats)
- Dickie Denton (Liberal Democrats)
- Hannah Kitching (Liberal Democrats)
- Leyla Nayeri (Liberal Democrats)
- Mandy Lowe-Flello (Liberal Democrats)
- Philip Wright (Liberal Democrats)
- Stephen Bullcock (Liberal Democrats)
- Steve Hunt (Liberal Democrats)
- Will Fielding (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrew Wray (Independent)
- Jake Lodge (Independent)
- Trevor Smith (Independent)
- Robert Barnard (Conservative)
Against (40)
- Anita Cherryholme (Labour)
- Ashley Peace (Labour)
- Brenda Eastwood (Labour)
- Caroline Makinson (Labour)
- Dave Leech (Labour)
- Deborah Pearson (Labour)
- Dorothy Coates (Labour)
- Ian Shirt (Labour)
- James Higginbottom (Labour)
- Janine Bowler (Labour)
- Janine Moyes (Labour)
- Jo Newing (Labour)
- Joe Hayward (Labour)
- John Clarke JP (Labour)
- John Roberts (Labour)
- Karen Dyson (Labour)
- Ken Richardson Msc (Labour)
- Kevin Osborne (Labour)
- Margaret Sheard (Labour)
- Martin Morrell (Labour)
- Martin O'Donoghue (Labour)
- Mick Stowe (Labour)
- Neil Wright (Labour)
- Nicola Sumner (Labour)
- Paul Murray (Labour)
- Pauline Markham (Labour)
- Pauline McCarthy (Labour)
- Phillip Lofts (Labour)
- Robert Frost (Labour)
- Robin Franklin (Labour)
- Roy Bowser (Labour)
- Ruth Booker (Labour)
- Sarah Tattersall (Labour)
- Sharon Howard (Labour)
- Sir Stephen Houghton CBE (Labour)
- Steve Green (Labour)
- Sue Bellamy (Labour)
- Tim Shepherd (Labour)
- Trevor Cave (Labour)
- Wendy Cain (Labour)
From the minutes
published as a supplement alongside the original report, was then moved by Councillor Kitching and seconded by Councillor Hunt. After a lengthy debate, the amendment was put to the vote and was lost. In favour of the amendment, present at the time of voting:- Councillors Barnard, Bullcock, Denton, Fielding, Greenhough, Hunt, Kitching, Lodge, Lowe-Flello, Nayeri, Pickering, Smith, Waters, A Wray, C Wray, and P Wright. Against the amendment, present at the time of voting:- Councillors Bellamy, Booker, Bowler, Bowser, Cain, T Cave, Cherryholme, Clarke, Coates, Dyson, Eastwood, Franklin, Frost, Green, Hayward, Higginbottom, Houghton, Howard, Leech, Lofts, Makinson, Markham, McCarthy, Morrell, Moyes, Murray, Newing, O'Donoghue, Osborne, Peace, Pearson, Richardson, Roberts, Sheard, Shepherd, Shirt, Stowe, Sumner, Tattersall, and N Wright. Abstentions:- There were no abstentions. The original motion was then debated and put to the vote.
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.