General Fund Revenue Budget, Housing Revenue Account and Capital Programme 2025 / 2026
Full council, 27 February 2025: a named vote, lost.
For 20, Against 27, 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.
For (20)
- Barry Nelson-West (Labour)
- Ella Garelick (Labour)
- Gursharan Mand (Labour)
- Jagjit Singh (Labour)
- Jan Sweeting (Labour)
- Jas Dhot (Labour)
- June Nelson (Labour)
- Kamal Preet Kaur (Labour)
- Mohammed Shofiul Islam (Labour)
- Narinder Garg (Labour)
- Naser Abby (Labour)
- Peter Curling (Labour)
- Raju Sansarpuri (Labour)
- Rita Judge (Labour)
- Scott Farley (Labour)
- Sital Punja (Labour)
- Stuart Mathers (Labour)
- Tony Burles (Labour)
- Tony Gill (Labour)
- Labina Basit (Independent)
Against (27)
- Adam Bennett (Conservative)
- Colleen Sullivan (Conservative)
- Darran Davies (Conservative)
- Douglas Mills (Conservative)
- Eddie Lavery (Conservative)
- Ekta Gohil (Conservative)
- Farhad Choubedar (Conservative)
- Heena Makwana (Conservative)
- Henry Higgins (Conservative)
- Ian Edwards (Conservative)
- Jane Palmer (Conservative)
- John Riley (Conservative)
- Jonathan Bianco (Conservative)
- Kaushik Banerjee (Conservative)
- Keith Burrows (Conservative)
- Kelly Martin (Conservative)
- Kishan Bhatt (Conservative)
- Martin Goddard (Conservative)
- Nick Denys (Conservative)
- Peter Smallwood OBE (Conservative)
- Richard Lewis (Conservative)
- Richard Mills (Conservative)
- Shehryar Ahmad-Wallana (Conservative)
- Steve Tuckwell (Conservative)
- Susan O'Brien (Conservative)
- Wayne Bridges (Conservative)
- the Deputy Mayor ( Corthorne) (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
balance the budget. Many councils were struggling with 30 of them around the country requesting exceptional financial support. The amendment, in the form of an Objection, was put to a recorded vote: Those voting for: Councillors Abby, Basit, Burles, Curling, Dhot, Farley, Garelick, Garg, Gill, Islam, Judge, Kaur, Mand, Mathers, Nelson, Nelson-West, Punja, Sansarpuri, Singh and Sweeting. Those voting against: The Mayor (Councillor Sullivan), the Deputy Mayor (Councillor Corthorne), Councillors Ahmad-Wallana, Banerjee, Bennett, Bhatt, Bianco, Bridges, Burrows, Choubedar, Davies, Denys, Edwards, Goddard, Gohil, Higgins, Lavery, Lewis, Makwana, Martin, D Mills, R Mills, O'Brien, Palmer, Riley, Smallwood and Tuckwell. Those abstaining: None. The amendment was lost. Those speaking in support of the original motion noted that local government financial pressures had been unprecedented and
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.