Determination of Complaint against Councillor Kamala Kugan - Standards Sub-Committee (09.02.2026)
Full council, 26 February 2026: a named vote.
For 35, Against 0, Abstained 6.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Liberal Democrats. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (35)
- Afy Afilaka (Liberal Democrats)
- Alison Holt (Liberal Democrats)
- Amir Ali Khan (Liberal Democrats)
- Andreas Kirsch (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrew Bolton (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrew Wooldridge (Liberal Democrats)
- Anita Schaper (Liberal Democrats)
- Anne Owen (Liberal Democrats)
- Diane White (Liberal Democrats)
- Elizabeth Park (Liberal Democrats)
- Farshid Sadr-Hashemi (Liberal Democrats)
- Griseldis Kirsch (Liberal Democrats)
- Ian Manders (Liberal Democrats)
- John Sweeney (Liberal Democrats)
- Lesley Heap (Liberal Democrats)
- Liz Green (Liberal Democrats)
- Lorraine Dunstone (Liberal Democrats)
- Lynn Henderson (Liberal Democrats)
- Mariana Goncalves (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Beynon (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Durrant (Liberal Democrats)
- Mike Massimi (Liberal Democrats)
- Nicola Nardelli (Liberal Democrats)
- Olly Wehring (Liberal Democrats)
- Patrick Hall (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Herlinger (Liberal Democrats)
- Richard Thorpe (Liberal Democrats)
- Robert Dongsung Kim (Liberal Democrats)
- Roger Hayes (Liberal Democrats)
- Sabah Hamed (Liberal Democrats)
- Sharukh Mirza (Liberal Democrats)
- Susan Skipwith (Liberal Democrats)
- Thay Thayalan (Liberal Democrats)
- Tom Reeve (Liberal Democrats)
- Yogan Yoganathan (Liberal Democrats)
Abstained (6)
- Jamal Chohan (Kingston Independent Residents Group)
- James Giles (Kingston Independent Residents Group)
- Yvonne Tracey (Kingston Independent Residents Group)
- Noel Hadjimichael (Liberal Democrats)
- Sue Ansari (Liberal Democrats)
- Kamala Kugan (Independent)
From the minutes
uncil subsequently voted on the substantive motion to remove Councillor Kamala Kugan from all Council committees. RESOLVED that Councillor Kamala Kugan be removed from all Council committees. Voting: For: Councillors Afy Afilaka, Mark Beynon, Andrew Bolton, Lorraine Dunstone, Mark Durrant, Mariana Goncalves, Liz Green, Patrick Hall, Sabah Hamed, Roger Hayes, Lesley Heap, Lynn Henderson, Peter Herlinger, Alison Holt, Amir Ali Khan, Robert Dongsung Kim, Andreas Kirsch, Griseldis Kirsch, Ian Manders, Mike Massimi, Sharukh Mirza, Nicola Nardelli, Anne Owen, Elizabeth Park, Tom Reeve, Farshid Sadr-Hashemi, Anita Schaper, Susan Skipwith, John Sweeney, Thay Thayalan, Richard Thorpe, Olly Wehring, Diane White, Andrew Wooldridge and Yogan Yoganathan. (35) Against: None. (0) Abstentions: Councillors Noel Hadjimichael, Sue Ansari, James Giles, Jamal Chohan, Kamala Kugan and Yvonne Tracey (6)
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.