Issue - meetings

Report CSD16174

An amendment to include the following additional recommendation was moved by Councillor Angela Wilkins and seconded by Councillor Kevin Brooks.

“That young people leaving care should be entitled to 100% relief from the ages 18 to 25.”  

The following Members voted in favour of the amendment -

Councillors Vanessa Allen, Kathy Bance, Kevin Brooks, Ian Dunn, Peter Fookes, Angela Wilkins and Richard Williams.

The following Members voted against the amendment -

Councillors Graham Arthur, Douglas Auld, Julian Benington, Nicholas Bennett, Ruth Bennett, Eric Bosshard, Kim Botting, Katy Boughey, Lydia Buttinger, Stephen Carr, David Cartwright, Alan Collins, Mary Cooke, Peter Dean, Nicky Dykes, Judi Ellis, Robert Evans, Simon Fawthrop, Peter Fortune, Ellie Harmer, Will Harmer, Samaris Huntington-Thresher, William Huntington-Thresher, Charles Joel, David Livett, Kate Lymer, Russell Mellor, Alexa Michael, Peter Morgan, Terence Nathan, Keith Onslow, Tony Owen, Angela Page, Sarah Phillips, Tom Philpott, Chris Pierce, Neil Reddin, Catherine Rideout, Charles Rideout, Michael Rutherford, Richard Scoates, Colin Smith, Diane Smith, Melanie Stevens, Tim Stevens, Teresa Te, Michael Tickner, Michael Turner, Pauline Tunnicliffe, and Stephen Wells. 

The Mayor, Councillor Ian F. Payne, and the Deputy Mayor, Councillor Hannah Gray, abstained.

The amendment was LOST.

A motion to note the responses to the public consultation exercise, the response from the Greater London Authority to the consultation documents and the content of the Impact assessment, and to adopt, for the financial year 2017/18, a scheme retaining the calculation of entitlement for working age claimants on 75% of the household’s Council Tax liability (thereby, the maximum assistance provided to a claimant of working age is 75% of his/her Council tax), was moved by Councillor Graham Arthur, seconded by Councillor Stephen Carr and CARRIED.