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.
Joe Harris - Leader of the Council
Portfolio responsibilities
- Overall COVID-19 recovery
- Policy framework including the corporate plan
- Coordination of executive functions
- Democratic Services
- Communications
- Customer experience
- Publica
- Democratic Renewal and Consultation
- Civic Pride (street signs, street cleaning and litter picking)
Mike Evemy - Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance
Portfolio responsibilities
- Financial strategy and management
- Revenue and benefits
- Property and asset management
- Car parking operations
- Grants
- Cotswold Water Park
Rachel Coxcoon - Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Forward Planning
Portfolio responsibilities
- Climate change and energy planning
- Sustainable transport
- Strategic forward planning
- Local plan
- Community Infrastructure Levy and Section 106
- Allowable solutions
Jenny Forde - Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing
Portfolio responsibilities
- COVID-19 response
- Public health, wellbeing and mental health
- Improving social mobility
- Tackling social isolation
- Crime, disorder and safety
- Supporting and safeguarding people
- Leisure, museums and culture
- Support for community events (Stow Fair,
- Phoenix Festival, Fleece Fair, Moreton Show etc.)
Lisa Spivey - Cabinet Member for Housing and Homelessness
Portfolio responsibilities
- Tackling homelessness and improving housing security
- Delivery of social rented homes
- Support for small housing developers and community
- land trusts
- Promotion of self-build and system-build housing
- Strategic oversight of tenure and housing needs assessment
- Liaison with housing developers
- Housing Benefit and Universal Credit
Andrew Doherty - Cabinet Member for the Environment, Waste and Recycling
Portfolio responsibilities
- Waste and recycling
- UBICO
- Flooding
- Public protection
- Food safety
- Building control
- Cemeteries
- Noise and public nuisance
- Public toilets
Tony Dale - Cabinet Member for the Economy and Skills
Portfolio responsibilities
- Local Enterprise Partnership and county-wide
- partnerships
- Economic development and COVID-19 economic
- recovery
- Council commercialisation
- Internal council transformation
- Tourism and Visitor Information Centres
- Chamber of Commerce liaison
- Young people
Clive Webster - Cabinet Member for the Planning Department, Town and Parish Councils
Portfolio responsibilities
- Town and Parish Council Liaison
- Development management
- Heritage and design management
- Landscape conservation
- Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- (AONB)
- Neighbourhood Development Plans