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
- Coordination of executive functions
- Policy framework including the corporate plan
- Publica
- Council communications
- Democratic services
- Housing and homelessness
- Clean and green campaign and street cleaning
- Town and parish council liaison
Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance - Mike Evemy
Portfolio responsibilities
- Financial strategy and management
- Property and assets
- Waste and recycling
- Revenues and benefits
- Grants
- Public toilets
- UBICO
Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Sustainability - Mike McKeown
Portfolio responsibilities
- Climate and biodiversity emergency response
- Community energy
- Sustainable transport
- Retrofit
- Council sustainability
Cabinet Member for the Economy and Council Transformation - Tony Dale
Portfolio responsibilities
- Business transformation
- Local Enterprise Partnership and county-wide partnerships
- Economic development
- Car parking operations and strategy
- Tourism and visitor information centres
- Chamber of Commerce liaison
- Customer experience and channel shift
Cabinet Member for Planning and Regulatory Services - Juliet Layton
Portfolio responsibilities
- Development management
- Forward planning and the local plan
- Heritage and design management
- Environmental and regulatory services
- Cotswold Water Park
Cabinet Member for Health, Leisure and Culture - Paul Hodgkinson
Portfolio responsibilities
- Public health
- Mental health
- Leisure centres
- Museums
- Culture
- Young people
Cabinet Member for Communities and Public Safety - Lisa Spivey
Portfolio responsibilities
- Improving social mobility and social isolation
- Flooding and sewage
- Safeguarding
- Domestic abuse
- Police liaison and crime
- Refugees
- Crowdfund Cotswold
- Member Development
Cabinet Member for Cost of Living and Inclusion - Claire Bloomer
Portfolio responsibilities
- Cost of living support
- Liaison with 3rd sector
- Diversity and inclusion
- Supporting women and minorities