Cabinet
This committee is chaired by the leader of the council who selects eight cabinet members from their ruling group. Each cabinet member represents a different council department.
The Cabinet reviews reports prepared by council staff working with the cabinet member who represents them. The report recommends a decision on an important subject, and the Cabinet debates and votes on it in a public meeting.
Cabinet members can make decisions on less important subjects themselves – we call this an Individual Cabinet Member Decision.
We publish all decisions made by the Cabinet, and all Individual Cabinet Member Decisions on our democratic pages.
See our calendar for the dates of all of our Cabinet meetings. Five working days before a meeting, we will publish the reports the Cabinet is reviewing. You can find these reports on the calendar.
Cabinet Members and the areas they represent
Cllr Sue Cooper (Cabinet Chair) – Leader of the Council:
- Climate change
- Nature recovery
Cllr Robin Bennett (Cabinet Vice-Chair) – Deputy Leader, Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Regeneration:
- Economic Development
- Property
- CIL spending
- Infrastructure & Development
- Berinsfield Garden Village
- Oxfordshire Growth Board – Housing
Cllr Maggie Filipova-Rivers (Cabinet Vice-Chair) – Deputy Leader, Cabinet Member for Community Wellbeing:
- Leisure and Active Communities
- Community Centres
- Arts Development
- Cornerstone
- Community Grants
- Health and Wellbeing
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Covid-19 Community Hub
Cllr Pieter-Paul Barker – Cabinet Member for Partnerships and Legal and Democratic:
- Five Councils Partnership
- Enterprise Zones
- Science Vale
- Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLep) – attendance at meetings delegated to Cllr Sue Roberts, Chair of CEAC
- Housing and Growth Deal – Infrastructure
Cllr Andrea Powell – Cabinet Member for Corporate Services:
- Communications
- Community Engagement & Consultation
- Customer Services
- Complaints
- Data Protection and Freedom of Information
- Health and Safety
- HR and Payroll
- IT
- Insight & Policy
- Corporate Plan
Cllr Leigh Rawlins – Cabinet Member for Finance:
- Strategic Finance and Financial Management
- Procurement
- Revenues & Benefits, including Council Tax, Benefits and Business Rates
- Audit
Cllr David Rouane – Cabinet Member for Housing and Environment and Didcot Garden Town:
- Licensing
- Community Safety, including Safe Oxfordshire and South and Vale Community Safety partnerships
- CCTV
- Housing
- Disabled Facilities Grants
- Environmental Protection
- Waste, Litter & Street Cleaning
- Food Safety
- Car Parks
- Grounds & Parks Maintenance
- Mobile Home Parks
- Public Toilets
- Cemeteries
- Engineering Services, including sewerage, flooding and drainage
Cllr Anne-Marie Simpson – Cabinet Member for Planning:
- Planning Policy
- S106 and CIL policy
- Local Plan
- Neighbourhood and Community Led Planning
- Transport Infrastructure
- Planning Applications
- Planning Enforcement
- Building Control
- Trees, Landscaping, Conservation & Listed Buildings
- Oxfordshire Growth Board – Oxfordshire Plan 2050
Find out who has to make decisions on what in our Constitution.
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