Cabinet and Decision Making

The leaders seat in the council chamber In order to make our decision making process quicker and more transparent, we currently adopt a 'Leader and Cabinet' model which follows the structure below:

Full Council
Cabinet exercising executive functions
Committees exercising non-executive functions
Scrutiny Committees
Standards Committee

The Cabinet

The Cabinet consists of the leader and six elected members, each taking responsibility for certain services and making decisions within their area of responsibility in accordance with their delegated authority.

The Cabinet, who exercise our executive functions, is structured as follows:

Name	Service Areas
W.J. Clarke	Finance & Performance
M.R. Payne	Communications & Public Protection
R.D. Allan	Economic & Strategic Development
S.M. Creamer	Community & Employee Relations
P. Feeney	Environment & Sustainability
J. Hollingsworth	Health & Wellbeing
D.E. Pulk	Leisure & Culture