Cabinet meetings
Cabinet members and their responsibilities
Councillor Susan Brown
Leader, and Cabinet Member for Inclusive Economy and Partnerships
View Councillor Susan Brown's profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- Business Partnerships
- Economic development and inclusion
- Business Plan
- Electoral & Legal Services
- LG General Assembly member
- Council Strategy and Partnerships
- Outside bodies
- Research & Policy Development
- Scrutiny
- Future Oxfordshire Partnership
- Oxford Strategic Partnership
- Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership
- Emergency Planning
- Democratic Services and Member Support
- Participatory democracy
- Corporate Affairs (FOI, Environmental Impact Regulations, complaints) and Data Protection
- Tourism
- Chair of Zero Carbon Oxford Partnership
- City Centre Action Plan delivery
- Town Hall Facilities and Civic Office
- External Affairs
- Communications and consultation
Councillor Ed Turner
Deputy Leader (Statutory), and Cabinet Member for Finance and Asset Management
View Councillor Ed Turner's profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- Delivery of non-housing capital programme
- Medium-term financial strategy
- Strategic financial and accounting services
- Payments and Insurance
- Corporate Fraud and Audit/Risk Management
- Corporate asset and treasury management
- Procurement
- Commercial property management
- Acquisition, valuation and disposal of land and property
- Major projects, land, and property development
- Maintenance of corporate buildings
- Contract management for corporate property services
- International links including Oxford International Links Committee
- Deputise for Leader as required
Councillor Chewe Munkonge
Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Leisure and Parks
View Councillor Chewe Munkonge's profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- More Leisure partnership and contract – both management of existing contract and future planning
- Leisure and wellbeing
- Children and young people policies
- Youth Ambition
- Youth Partnership Board
- School liaison and partnerships
- Sport and physical activity
- Parks, Allotments, Cemeteries & Open Spaces
- Deputise for Leader as required
Councillor Anna Railton
Cabinet Member for Zero Carbon Oxford and Climate Justice
View Councillor Anna Railton's profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- Carbon reduction
- Environmental policies
- Delivering the Zero Emission Zone to improve Air Quality
- Delivering Zero Carbon Oxford City Council by 2030
- Sustainability
- Low Carbon Oxford
- Support delivery of the outcomes of the Oxford Citizens Assembly on Climate Change
- Biodiversity delivery
- Promotion of clean energy
Councillor Mark Lygo
Cabinet Member for Inclusive and Safer Communities
View Councillor Mark Lygos' profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- Community safety and tackling antisocial behaviour
- Working with TVP on tackling drug-dealing, county lines, Domestic Violence, Child Sexual Exploitation,
- Modern Slavery, crime and Violence against Women and Girls
- Keeping our Night-time Economy safe
- Oxford Safer Communities Partnership
- Thames Valley Police and Crime Panel
- Safeguarding Adults and Children
- Safer Oxford Partnership
- Community development/engagement
- Social regeneration
- Welfare Reform
- Discretionary Housing Payments
- Council Tax Reduction Scheme
- Community and voluntary sector grants
- Stronger Communities Steering Group
- Community Impact Zone
- Financial inclusion
Councillor Linda Smith
Cabinet Member for Housing
View Councillor Linda Smith's profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- Regulation of the Private Rented Sector
- Housing strategy for HRA
- Housing Revenue Account
- Housing capital programme (HRA)
- Landlord services
- Housing allocations
- Estate regeneration projects (HRA)
- Commissioning housing maintenance services
- Tenancy management and sustainment
- Tenant and Resident involvement
- Development of affordable housing via HRA
- Disabled Facilities Grant
- Statutory and non-statutory homelessness
- Homelessness Prevention Services
- Home Choice Scheme
- Community centres
Councillor Jemima Hunt
Cabinet Member for Culture and Events
View Councillor Jemima Hunt's profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- Culture and cultural partnerships
- Museum of Oxford & Town Hall
- Events including St Giles Fair
- Environmental Health
- Local market promotions
- Events
- Licensing and enforcement
Councillor Nigel Chapman
Cabinet Member for Citizen Focused Services and Council Companies
View Councillor Nigel Chapman's profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- Customer Services:
- Council Tax
- Benefits administration
- Rents, rates, and Income collection
- Oxford Direct Services as contractor:
- Planned maintenance contracts
- Responsive maintenance contracts
- Highways, engineering
- Fleet management
- Tree management
- OX Place
- Council Corporate Services:
- ICT
- Business Improvement
- HR – including apprenticeships and Organisational Development
- Health and safety
- Equalities and diversity
- Street scene, public conveniences
- Flood relief
- Pest control
- Waste and recycling including:
- Oxfordshire Resources and Waste Partnership
- Clean, green Oxford campaign
- Promotion of refillables and campaigning against single use plastics
Councillor Louise Upton
Cabinet Member for Planning and Healthier Communities
View Councillor Louise Upton's profile and contact details
Responsibilities:
- Addressing health inequalities
- Health and Wellbeing Board & Health Improvement Board
- Public Health promotion
- Planning Policy including biodiversity
- Community Infrastructure Levy
- Local Plan
- Spatial Planning & Conservation
- Development & Building Control
- Transport Policy including Connecting Oxford
- Taxi Licensing
- Car Parking Policy
- Work in partnership with transport authorities (OCC and Highways England) to deliver a strategic approach to sustainable transport involving engaging with our local communities
- Work with transport providers (Network Rail, bus companies, taxi firms etc) to deliver affordable, accessible and frequent public transport
