Budget 2026/27 and the Medium - Term Financial Plan: Update Report
Full council, 25 September 2025: a named vote.
For 66, Against 2, 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 (66)
- Ali Ahmed (Labour)
- Anny Anderson (Labour)
- Ash Lister (Labour)
- Bernie Bowen-Thomson (Labour)
- Bethan Proctor (Labour)
- Caro Wild (Labour)
- Chris Weaver (Labour)
- Daniel De'Ath (Labour)
- Ed Stubbs (Labour)
- Elaine Simmons (Labour)
- Garry Hunt (Labour)
- Grace Ferguson-Thorne (Labour)
- Graham Hinchey (Labour)
- Helen Gunter (Labour)
- Helen Lloyd Jones (Labour)
- Huw Thomas (Labour)
- Irene Humphreys (Labour)
- Jackie Jones (Labour)
- Jacqueline Parry (Labour)
- Jamie Green (Labour)
- Jasmin Chowdhury (Labour)
- Jess Moultrie (Labour)
- Julie Sangani (Labour)
- Kanaya Singh (Labour)
- Kate Carr (Labour)
- Lee Bridgeman (Labour)
- Leonora Thomson (Labour)
- Maliika Kaaba (Labour)
- Marc Palmer (Labour)
- Margaret Lewis (Labour)
- Mary McGarry (Labour)
- Michael Michael (Labour)
- Mike Ash-Edwards (Labour)
- Norma Mackie (Labour)
- Owen Jones (Labour)
- Peter Bradbury (Labour)
- Peter Wong (Labour)
- Russell Goodway (Labour)
- Saeed Ebrahim (Labour)
- Saleh Ahmed (Labour)
- Sarah Merry (Labour)
- Stephen Cunnah (Labour)
- Sue Lent (Labour)
- Susan Elsmore (Labour)
- Waheeda Abdul-Sattar (Labour)
- Ashley Wood (Liberal Democrats)
- Bablin Molik (Liberal Democrats)
- Dan Naughton (Liberal Democrats)
- Daniel Waldron (Liberal Democrats)
- Imran Latif (Liberal Democrats)
- Jon Shimmin (Liberal Democrats)
- Joseph Carter (Liberal Democrats)
- Rhys Taylor (Liberal Democrats)
- Robert Hopkins (Liberal Democrats)
- Rodney Berman (Liberal Democrats)
- Calum Davies (Conservative)
- Jayne Cowan (Conservative)
- John Lancaster (Conservative)
- Oliver Owen (Conservative)
- Sean Driscoll (Conservative)
- Emma Reid-Jones (Independent)
- Peter Littlechild (Independent)
- Andrea Gibson (Plaid Cymru)
- Rhys Owain Livesy (Plaid Cymru)
- Dilwar Ali (not matched to a member)
- Matt Youde (not matched to a member)
Against (2)
- Neil McEvoy (Prop)
- Edward Topham (Reform UK)
From the minutes
n update in relation to the Council's financial resilience. The report was proposed by Cllr Weaver and seconded by Cllr Thomas. The Lord Mayor invited debate on the report, before moving to the vote. FOR (66) Cllrs Abdul-Sattar, Ali Ahmed, Saleh Ahmed, Ali, Anderson, Ash-Edwards, Berman, Bowen-Thomson, Bradbury, Bridgeman, Carr, Carter, Chowdhury, Cowan, Cunnah, Davies, De'Ath, Driscoll, Ebrahim, Elsmore, Ferguson-Thorne, Gibson, Goodway, Green, Gunter, Hopkins, Hinchey, Humphreys, Hunt, Lloyd Jones, Jackie Jones, Owen Jones, Kaaba, Lancaster, Latif, Lent, Lewis, Lister, Littlechild, Livesy, Mackie, McGarry, Merry, Michael, Molik, Moultrie, Naughton, Owen, Palmer, Parry, Proctor, Reid-Jones, Sangani, Shimmin, Simmons, Singh, Stubbs, Taylor, Thomas, Thomson, Waldron, Weaver, Wild, Wong, Wood and Youde AGAINST (2) Cllrs McEvoy and Topham ABSTAIN (0) RESOLVED: Council AGREED: 1. That the Budget Timetable Framework set out in Appendix 2 be adopted, and that the work outlined be progressed with a view to informing budget pre
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