Appointment of the Chief Executive
Full council, 16 July 2026: a named vote.
For 59, Against 0, 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.
Only one side of this vote could be read from the minutes. The others may be recorded in a form that couldn't be read, or not at all.
For (59)
- Ali Ahmed (Labour)
- Anny Anderson (Labour)
- Ash Lister (Labour)
- Bethan Proctor (Labour)
- Bob Derbyshire (Labour)
- Caro Wild (Labour)
- Chris Weaver (Labour)
- Daniel De'Ath (Labour)
- Ed Stubbs (Labour)
- Elaine Simmons (Labour)
- Grace Ferguson-Thorne (Labour)
- Graham Hinchey (Labour)
- Helen Gunter (Labour)
- Helen Lloyd Jones (Labour)
- Irene Humphreys (Labour)
- James Caruana (Labour)
- Jamie Green (Labour)
- Jennifer Burke (Labour)
- Kate Carr (Labour)
- Leonora Thomson (Labour)
- Lexi Gauci (Labour)
- Lynda Thorne (Labour)
- Maliika Kaaba (Labour)
- Marc Palmer (Labour)
- Margaret Lewis (Labour)
- Mary McGarry (Labour)
- Mike Ash-Edwards (Labour)
- Norma Mackie (Labour)
- Peter Bradbury (Labour)
- Peter Huw Jenkins (Labour)
- Peter Wong (Labour)
- Saleh Ahmed (Labour)
- Sarah Merry (Labour)
- Stephen Cunnah (Labour)
- Sue Lent (Labour)
- Waheeda Abdul-Sattar (Labour)
- Ashley Wood (Liberal Democrats)
- Bablin Molik (Liberal Democrats)
- Dan Naughton (Liberal Democrats)
- Daniel Waldron (Liberal Democrats)
- Jon Shimmin (Liberal Democrats)
- Rhys Taylor (Liberal Democrats)
- Robert Hopkins (Liberal Democrats)
- Rodney Berman (Liberal Democrats)
- Adrian Robson (Conservative)
- Calum Davies (Conservative)
- Jayne Cowan (Conservative)
- Joel Williams (Conservative)
- John Lancaster (Conservative)
- Sean Driscoll (Conservative)
- Emma Reid-Jones (Independent)
- Jasmin Chowdhury (Independent)
- Keith Jones (Independent)
- Peter Littlechild (Independent)
- Susan Elsmore (Independent)
- Andrea Gibson (Plaid Cymru)
- Rhys Owain Livesy (Plaid Cymru)
- Edward Topham (Reform UK)
- Matt Youde (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
Registration Officer and Returning Officer of the Council. The report was proposed by Cllr Weaver and seconded by Cllr Berman. The Lord Mayor invited debate on the report, before moving to the vote. FOR (59) Cllrs Abdul-Sattar, Ali Ahmed, Saleh Ahmed, Anderson, Ash-Edwards, Berman, Bradbury, Burke, Carr, Caruana, Chowdhury, Cowan, Cunnah, Davies, De'Ath, Derbyshire, Driscoll, Elsmore, Ferguson-Thorne, Gibson, Green, Gunter, Hinchey, Hopkins, Humphreys, Jenkins, Lloyd Jones, Keith Jones, Kaaba, Lancaster, Lent, Lewis, Lister, Littlechild, Livesy, Mackie, McGarry, Merry, Molik, Naughton, Palmer, Pocknell, Proctor, Reid-Jones, Robson, Shimmin, Simmons, Stubbs, Taylor, Thomson, Thorne, Topham, Waldron, Weaver, Wild, Williams, Wong, Wood and Youde. AGAINST (0) ABSTAIN (0) RESOLVED: Council AGREED: To approve, subject to the satisfactory receipt of any relevant pre-employment checks, the appointment of: 1. the Chief Executive in accordance with the recommendation of the Appointments Committee held on 15 July 2026, as reported on the Amendment Sheet;
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