Cabinet meetings
Cabinet members and their responsibilities
Councillor Susan Brown
Leader, and Cabinet Member for Partnership Working and Inclusive Economic Growth
View Councillor Susan Brown's profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- Council strategy and policy delivery
- Democratic Services and Member Support
- Partnerships and outside bodies including:
- District Councils Network (Labour Vice Chair)
- Fast Growth Cities (Chair)
- Local Government General Assembly member
- Oxford Growth Commission
- Oxford Strategic Partnership
Councillor Ed Turner
Deputy Leader (Statutory), and Cabinet Member for Finance and Asset Management
View Councillor Ed Turner's profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- Deputise for Leader as required
- Financial and treasury strategy
- Financial support for local residents and businesses
- Links with our twin cities
- Property and asset management and maintenance
Councillor Anna Railton
Deputy Leader, and Cabinet Member for a Zero Carbon Oxford
View Councillor Anna Railton's profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- Deputise for Leader as required
- Air Quality
- Biodiversity delivery including verge and tree planting
- Carbon reduction, heat decarbonisation and retrofitting
- Delivery of Zero Carbon Oxford City Council by 2030
- Delivery of the outcomes of the Oxford Citizens Assembly on Climate Change
- Parks, Allotments, Cemeteries and Open Spaces
- Renewable energy and energy planning
- Sustainability
- Taxi Licensing
- Transport liaison with Oxfordshire County Council and Highways England and other providers
Councillor Lubna Arshad
Cabinet Member for a Safer Oxford
View Councillor Lubna Arshad's profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- Community safety and tackling antisocial behaviour
- Safeguarding Adults and Children
- Working with Thames Valley Police to tackle anti-social behaviour, child sexual exploitation, county lines, drug dealing, domestic abuse, knife crime, modern slavery, violence against women and girls and crime generally
Councillor Nigel Chapman
Cabinet Member for Citizen Focused Services and Council Companies
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Responsibilities:
- Business Improvement
- Customer Service
- Oxford Direct Services as contractor
- OX Place as a company
- Service delivery
- Street scene, public conveniences
- Tree management
- Waste and recycling
Councillor Alex Hollingsworth
Cabinet member for Planning and Culture
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Responsibilities:
- Car Parking Policy
- City Centre Action Plan delivery
- Culture, cultural partnerships and events (including St Giles Fair, Cowley Road Carnival etc.)
- Development and Building Control
- Infrastructure planning
- Licensing Policy
- Local Plan and planning policies including biodiversity
- Spatial Planning and conservation
- Major projects delivery
- Museum of Oxford
- Promotion of a thriving music and night-time economy
- Tourism
Councillor Chewe Munkonge
Cabinet Member for a Healthy, Fairer Oxford and Small Business Champion
View Councillor Chewe Munkonge's profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- Addressing health inequalities and public health promotion
- Children and young people policies and school liaison
- Leisure partnership and contract management
- Local market promotions
- Promotion of Oxford Living Wage
- Small Business Champion
- Sport and physical activity
Councillor Linda Smith
Cabinet Member for Housing and Communities
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Responsibilities:
- Affordable housing delivery
- Community centres, pavilions and grants
- Estate regeneration projects
- Homelessness services including prevention
- Housing allocations and strategy
- Regulation of the Private Rented Sector
- Tenancy management and sustainment
- Tenant and Resident involvement
