Committee details
Council
Purpose of committee
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The Council is composed of 42 councillors elected every four years. Councillors are democratically accountable to residents of their ward. The overriding duty of councillors is to the whole community, but they have a special duty to their constituents, including those who did not vote for them.
Councillorshave to agree to follow a code of conduct to ensure appropriate standards in the way they undertake their duties.
All councillors meet together as the Council. Meetings of the Council are normally open to the public. Here councillors decide the Council's overall policies and set the budget each year. The Council elects the Leader of the Council (who appoints the other members of the decision-making Executive); the Overview and Scrutiny Commission (responsible for holding the Executive publicly accountable, and for developing policies) and the four regulatory committees (which make decisions, non-executive functions).
Membership
- Councillor Naheed Ejaz (Mayor) Labour Party
- Councillor Jenny Penfold (Deputy Mayor) Labour Party
- Councillor Nick Allen Conservatives
- Councillor Roy Bailey Labour Party
- Councillor Gareth Barnard Conservatives
- Councillor Paul Bidwell Labour Party
- Councillor Tricia Brown Labour Party
- Councillor Janet Cochrane Labour Party
- Councillor Sheila Collings The Green Party
- Councillor Christoph Eberle Liberal Democrats
- Councillor Tina Eberle Liberal Democrats
- Councillor Caroline Egglestone Labour Party
- Councillor Mike Forster Liberal Democrats
- Councillor Sophie Forster Liberal Democrats
- Councillor Peter Frewer Labour Party
- Councillor Ryan Frost Labour Party
- Councillor Moira Gaw Conservatives
- Councillor Guy Gillbe Labour Party
- Councillor Adrian Haffegee The Green Party
- Councillor John Harrison Conservatives
- Councillor Dorothy Hayes MBE Conservatives
- Councillor Iskandar Jefferies Labour Party
- Councillor Michael Karim Labour Party
- Councillor Tina McKenzie-Boyle Conservatives
- Councillor Robert McLean Conservatives
- Councillor Ray Mossom Conservatives
- Councillor Kathryn Neil Labour Party
- Councillor Stephen O'Regan Labour Party
- Councillor Georgia Pickering Labour Party
- Councillor Helen Purnell Labour Party
- Councillor Nicholas Robertson Conservatives
- Councillor Patrick Smith Liberal Democrats
- Councillor Mary Temperton Labour Party
- Councillor Cath Thompson Labour Party
- Councillor Philip Thompson Liberal Democrats
- Councillor Tony Virgo Conservatives
- Councillor Jodie Watts Labour Party
- Councillor Gerry Webb Labour Party
- Councillor Cherise Welch Labour Party
- Councillor Megan Wright Labour Party
- Councillor Nazar Zahuruddin Liberal Democrats
- Kevin Gibbs
- Sanjay Prashar
- Hannah Harding
Contact information
Support officer: Hannah Harding. 01344 352308
Postal address:
Democratic Services
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Market Street
Bracknell
RG12 1JD
Email: hannah.harding@bracknell-forest.gov.uk