Budget and council tax setting 2025/26
Full council, 27 February 2025: a named vote, carried.
For 42, Against 13, 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 (42)
- Ahsan Khan (Labour)
- Andrew Dixon (Labour)
- Caramel Quin (Labour)
- Catherine Deakin (Labour)
- Clyde Loakes (Labour)
- Crystal Ihenachor (Labour)
- Elizabeth Baptiste (Labour)
- Gerry Lyons (Labour)
- Grace Williams (Labour)
- Jack Phipps (Labour)
- Jennifer Whilby (Labour)
- Jenny Gray (Labour)
- Johar Khan (Labour)
- Jonathan O'Dea (Labour)
- Kastriot Berberi (Labour)
- Keith Rayner (Labour)
- Khevyn Limbajee (Labour)
- Kira Lewis (Labour)
- Kischa Green (Labour)
- Kizzy Gardiner (Labour)
- Louise Mitchell (Labour)
- Marie Pye (Labour)
- Marsela Berberi (Labour)
- Miriam Mirwitch (Labour)
- Naheed Asghar (Labour)
- Paul Douglas (Labour)
- Raja Anwar (Labour)
- Richard Sweden (Labour)
- Rosalind Doré (Labour)
- Sally Littlejohn (Labour)
- Sebastian Salek (Labour)
- Shabana Dhedhi (Labour)
- Shumon Ali-Rahman (Labour)
- Steve Terry (Labour)
- Terry Wheeler (Labour)
- Tony Bell (Labour)
- Uzma Rasool (Labour)
- Vicky Ashworth (Labour)
- Whitney Ihenachor (Labour)
- Yusuf Patel (Labour)
- Zafran Malik (Labour)
- Anna Mbachu (Independent)
Against (13)
- Afzal Akram (Conservative)
- Catherine Saumarez (Conservative)
- Emma Best (Conservative)
- Jemma Hemsted (Conservative)
- John Moss (Conservative)
- Justin Halabi (Conservative)
- Kay Isa (Conservative)
- Mitchell Goldie (Conservative)
- Roy Berg (Conservative)
- Sam O'Connell (Conservative)
- Sazimet Palta Imre (Conservative)
- Tim James (Conservative)
- Marion Fitzgerald (Reform UK)
From the minutes
. The amendment in the names of Councillor Catherine Saumarez and Councillor Afzal Akram fell. Substantive motion in the names of Councillor Grace Williams and Councillor Ahsan Khan For: S Ali-Rahman, R Anwar, N Asghar, V Ashworth, E Baptiste, T Bell, K Berberi, M Berberi, C Deakin, S Dhedhi, A Dixon, R Doré, P Douglas, K Gardiner, J Gray, K Green, C Ihenachor, W Ihenachor, A Khan, J Khan, K Lewis, K Limbajee, S Littlejohn, C Loakes, G Lyons, Z Malik, A Mbachu, M Mirwitch, L Mitchell, J O'Dea, Y Patel, J Phipps, M Pye, C Quin, U Rasool, K Rayner, S Salek, R Sweden, S Terry, T Wheeler, J Whilby and G Williams. Against: A Akram, R Berg, E Best, M Fitzgerald, M Goldie, J Halabi, J Hemsted, S P Imre, K Isa, T James, J Moss, S O'Connell and C Saumarez. Abstentions: None. The motion in the names of Councillor Grace Williams and Councillor Ahsan Khan was carried. Council: · agreed that the Waltham Forest basic amount o
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.