Councillor Susan Brown, Leader of Oxford City Council, has announced her Cabinet for 2025/26.
Councillor Louise Upton is not on the Cabinet in 2025/26 because she will be serving as the Lord Mayor of Oxford.
The Cabinet has subsequently been reduced from nine members to eight.
The Cabinet Members are:
- Councillor Susan Brown, Leader, and Cabinet Member for Partnership Working and Inclusive Economic Growth
- Councillor Ed Turner, Deputy Leader (Statutory), and Cabinet Member for Finance and Asset Management
- Councillor Anna Railton, Deputy Leader, and Cabinet Member for a Zero Carbon Oxford
- Councillor Lubna Arshad, Cabinet Member for a Safer Oxford
- Councillor Nigel Chapman, Cabinet Member for Citizen Focused Services and Council Companies
- Councillor Alex Hollingsworth, Cabinet member for Planning and Culture
- Councillor Chewe Munkonge, Cabinet Member for a Healthy, Fairer Oxford and Small Business Champion
- Councillor Linda Smith, Cabinet Member for Housing and Communities
The responsibilities of each Cabinet Member are:
- Councillor Susan Brown
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
The new Cabinet will be announced at the Annual Council Meeting tomorrow (15 May).
“The Cabinet will continue our work focused on our key priorities: tackling inequality and the high cost of living in Oxford, delivering more affordable homes, making Oxford a great place to live and preparing our city for climate change. In order to achieve this, we will continue to provide stable and prudent council finances and good quality services.
“We want to make sure that Oxford’s strong and growing economy is delivering for all of Oxford’s citizens. As a cabinet we are committed to continuing to work with Oxford’s diverse communities and businesses to support their needs. Oxford is a great place to live, work and do business and we want everyone to feel proud of their neighbourhood. That is what we are striving to achieve.”
Councillor Susan Brown, Leader of Oxford City Council
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