Following today's resignation from Cabinet by councillors Joan Stocker and Ian Stewart, the Conservative Group have reassigned Cabinet portfolios for the existing six Cabinet members. They are as follows:
Leader: Cllr Tim Stoddard
Responsibilities:
- Leadership, Overview and Integration
- Strategy, Policy and Performance Management
- Corporate Strategy and Council Plan
- Partnership Development
- Communications
- Performance and Improvement Agenda
- Public Relations
- Local Area Agreement/Comprehensive Area Assessment
- Budget
- Efficiency
- Finance
Adult Health and Wellbeing: Cllr Bill Wearing
Responsibilities:
- Services to Disabled People
- Services to Older People
- Cumbria Care
- Health Promotion
- Drug and Alcohol Action Team
Children’s Wellbeing and Transport : Cllr Jim Buchanan
Responsibilities:
- Children’s Social Care
- Schools and Learning
- Children’s Services Integration and Modernisation
- Children’s Trust
- Youth Services
- Transport, Strategy and Delivery
- Passenger Transport
Community Development and Safety: Cllr Gary Strong
Responsibilities:
- Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service
- Trading Standards
- Community Planning
- Emergency Planning
- Locality Working
- Voluntary Sector
- Customer/One Stop Shops
- Culture and Leisure (including Libraries)
- Property
- Community Safety/Cohesion
- Archaeology
- Road Safety
Environmental Wellbeing, Economic Development and Regeneration: Cllr Tony Markley
Responsibilities:
- Economic Development and Cumbria Vision
- Tourism
- Nuclear Issues
- Strategic Projects
- Affordable Housing
- Area-based Regeneration
- Spatial Planning
- Waste
- Highways
- Environment
- Climate Change
- Countryside Access
- Planning, Transport and Housing partnership theme
- Environment and Heritage partnership theme
- Cumbria Strategic Waste partnership theme
- Balanced Housing Markets
Human Resources/Organisational Development: Cllr Ray Cole
Responsibilities:
- Workforce Planning
- Equal Pay/Equal Value
- Equality and Diversity
- Member Development
- Organisational Development
- Single Status/Job Evaluation
- Constitution
- Unions
- Audit
- Procurement
- Information and Communications Technology
- Premises
- Democratic Services
- Legal
- Coroners and Registrars
- Accountable bodies - oversight
Notes for editors
Under the previous eight-person Cabinet Cllr Joan Stocker was Cabinet member for Finance Performance and Resources with the following responsibilites:
- Budget
- Efficiency
- Finance
- Audit
- Procurement
- Information and Communications Technology
- Premises (catering and cleaning)
- Legal and democratic services
- Coroners and Registrars
- Accountable bodies - oversight
- Oversight of Council Partnerships
And Cllr Ian Stewart as former Cabinet member for Environmental Wellbeing had responsibility for:
- Spatial Planning
- Transport, strategy and delivery
- Waste
- Highways
- Environment
- Climate change
- Archaeology
- Countryside Access, Passenger Transport, Road Safety
- Planning, Transport and Housing partnership theme
- Environment and Heritage partnership theme
- Cumbria Strategic Waste partnership theme
- Balanced Housing Markets
ENDS
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