Cabinet roles and responsibilities
Role of a cabinet member
Cabinet members are responsible for:
- leading on developing council policy and make recommendations to the Cabinet
- providing guidance to the Cabinet on running activities
- giving guidance to the Cabinet on budget priorities
- monitoring performance and make sure policy is delivered
- leading on improving council services
- making sure that activities meet the council's overall vision, core values and guiding principles
- contributing to debate and decision-making
- working with councillors who are not members of the cabinet, members of the opposition and officers to make sure that the overview and scrutiny process works correctly
- appearing before and responding to overview and scrutiny committee reports
- representing the council at a national and local level
Each cabinet member is the spokesperson for the policy area or 'portfolio' they are responsible for.
Leader - Joe Harris
Portfolio responsibilities
- Executive functions and corporate plan delivery
- Forward planning and the local plan
- Communications
- Town and Parish Council liaison
- Publica
Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance and Transformation - Mike Evemy
Portfolio responsibilities
- Financial strategy and management
- Property and assets
- Council transformation
- Revenues and benefits
- Grant funding and Crowdfund Cotswold
Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Sustainability - Mike McKeown
Portfolio responsibilities
- Climate and biodiversity emergency response
- Community energy
- Sustainable transport
- Energy efficiency programme
- Council sustainability
Cabinet Member for Housing and Planning - Juliet Layton
Portfolio responsibilities
- Strategic Housing
- Homelessness
- Development Management, Heritage and Conservation
- Neighbourhood Planning
- Regulatory Services
- Cotswold Lakes
Cabinet Member for Health, Culture, and Visitor Experience - Paul Hodgkinson
Portfolio responsibilities
- Public health
- Parking operations and strategy
- Leisure centres
- Museums
- Culture
- Community Safety Partnership
Cabinet Member for Communities - Claire Bloomer
Portfolio responsibilities
- Cost of living support
- Liaison with 3rd sector
- Diversity, inclusion and young people
- Domestic Abuse
- Safeguarding
- Refugee and Asylum response
Cabinet Member for Economy and Environment- Tristan Wilkinson
Portfolio responsibilities
- Economic Development
- Waste and Recycling
- Flooding and Sewage
- Street Cleaning
- Public Toilets
- Flooding
- UBICO