The Cabinet

This committee is chaired by the leader of the council who selects eight cabinet members from their ruling group. Each cabinet member represents a different council department.

The Cabinet reviews reports prepared by council staff working with the cabinet member who represents them. The report recommends a decision on an important subject, and the Cabinet debates and votes on it in a public meeting.

Cabinet members can make decisions on less important subjects themselves – we call this an Individual Cabinet Member Decision.

We publish all decisions made by the Cabinet, and all Individual Cabinet Member Decisions on our democratic pages.

See our calendar for the dates of all of our Cabinet meetings. Five working days before a meeting, we will publish the reports the Cabinet is reviewing. You can find these reports on the calendar.

The Cabinet and the departments they represent

Councillor Emily Smith (Chair) – Leader of the Council
Councillor Debby Hallett (Vice-Chair) – Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet member for corporate services and transformation
Councillor Andrew Crawford – Cabinet member for finance and corporate assets
Councillor Neil Fawcett – Cabinet member for strategic partnerships and place
Councillor Helen Pighills – Cabinet member for healthy communities
Councillor Judy Roberts – Cabinet member for development and infrastructure
Councillor Bethia Thomas – Cabinet member for community engagement
Councillor Catherine Webber – Cabinet member for climate emergency and environment

Find out who has to make decisions on what in our Constitution

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