Cabinet meetings
Cabinet members and their responsibilities
Councillor Susan Brown
Leader, and Cabinet Member for Partnership Working
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)
- Future Oxfordshire Partnership (Chair)
- Local Government General Assembly member
- Oxford Strategic Partnership
- Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (Director)
- Zero Carbon Oxford Partnership (Chair)
Councillor Ed Turner
Deputy Leader (Statutory), and Cabinet Member for Finance and Asset Management
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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 Zero Carbon Oxford
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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
- Environmental policies
- Renewable energy and energy planning
- Sustainability
Councillor Lubna Arshad
Cabinet Member for a Safer Oxford
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Responsibilities:
- Community safety and tackling antisocial behaviour
- Safeguarding Adults and Children
- Working with TVP 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 Business, Culture and an inclusive economy
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Responsibilities:
- City Centre Action Plan delivery
- Culture, cultural partnerships and events (including St Giles Fair, Cowley Road Carnival etc.)
- Local market promotions
- Major projects delivery
- Museum of Oxford
- Promotion of Oxford Living Wage
- Promotion of a thriving music and night-time economy
- Tourism
Councillor Chewe Munkonge
Cabinet Member for a Healthy Oxford
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Responsibilities:
- Addressing health inequalities and public health promotion
- Children and young people policies and school liaison
- Leisure partnership and contract management
- Parks, Allotments, Cemeteries and Open Spaces
- Sport and physical activity
Councillor Linda Smith
Cabinet Member for Housing and Communities
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Responsibilities:
- Affordable housing delivery
- Community centres 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
Councillor Louise Upton
Cabinet Member for Planning
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Responsibilities:
- Car Parking Policy
- Development and Building Control
- Infrastructure planning
- Local Plan and planning policies including biodiversity
- Spatial Planning and conservation
- Taxi Licensing
- Transport liaison with Oxfordshire County Council and Highways England aiming for a strategic approach to sustainable transport involving engagement with our local communities
- Transport liaison with providers, Network Rail, bus companies, taxi firms etc. to deliver affordable, accessible and frequent public transport
