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
- Policy framework including the corporate plan
- Coordination of executive functions
- Democratic Services
- Publica
- Communications
- Customer experience
- Town and Parish Council Liaison
- Democratic Renewal and Consultation
- Cotswold Clean and Green Campaign
Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance - Mike Evemy
Portfolio responsibilities
- Financial strategy and management
- Revenue and benefits
- Property and asset management
- Car parking operations
- Grants
Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Forward Planning - Rachel Coxcoon
Portfolio responsibilities
- Climate change and energy planning
- Sustainable transport
- Strategic forward planning
- Local plan
- Community Infrastructure Levy and Section 106
- Allowable solutions
Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing - Jenny Forde
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.)
- Young people
Cabinet Member for Housing and Homelessness - Lisa Spivey
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
Cabinet Member for the Environment, Waste and Recycling - Andrew Doherty
Portfolio responsibilities
- Waste and recycling
- UBICO
- Flooding
- Public protection
- Food safety
- Cemeteries
- Noise and public nuisance
- Public toilets
Cabinet Member for the Economy and Council Transformation - Tony Dale
Portfolio responsibilities
- Internal service transformation and improvement
- 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
Cabinet Member for Development Management and Licensing - Juliet Layton
Portfolio responsibilities
- Development management
- Heritage and design management
- Landscape conservation
- Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
- Neighbourhood Development Plans
- Licensing
- Building Control
- Cotswold Water Park