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CABINET


The Cabinet is the general decision making body of the Council and usually meets every six weeks to consider major plans and strategies. All of its meetings are open to the public.

The Cabinet is made up of 6 Councillors plus the Leader of the Council. Each Member of the Cabinet is appointed as a spokesperson for a particular area of the Council's work and their current areas of responsibility are:


Mr Barry Abraham - Cabinet Member for Residents and Resources
Mr George Brown - Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Economy, Planning and Property
Mrs Dawn Cousins - Cabinet Member for Health and Community Wellbeing
Mr Tim Hunter - Henderson - Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport
Mr David Pugh - Leader and Chairman of the Cabinet
Mrs Diana Tuson JP - Cabinet Member for Safer Communities
Mr Alan Wells - Cabinet Member for Children and Young People

Decisions made by the Cabinet are subject to scrutiny by the Scrutiny Committee and can be 'called in' by the Scrutiny Committee within 5 working days of the publication of the decision.

The Cabinet has a Forward Plan of the matters that it is due to consider over the next few months this can be viewed by clicking here.

forthcoming meetings of the Cabinet:

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