New Cabinet announced

The Cabinet members are:

Councillor Susan Brown

Leader, and Cabinet Member for Partnership Working

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

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

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
• Renewable energy and energy planning
• Sustainability

Councillor Lubna Arshad

Cabinet Member for a Safer Oxford

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 

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

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

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

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

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

The Cabinet membership was announced at the Annual Council Meeting on Thursday 16 May 2024.

Comment

“The Cabinet will maintain a strong focus 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 focus on stable and prudent council finances and providing good quality services.

“As a cabinet we are committed to continuing to work with Oxford’s diverse communities and businesses to support their needs. We all want Oxford to remain a great place to live, work and do business and for everyone to feel proud of their neighbourhood. That is what we are striving to achieve.”

Councillor Susan Brown, Leader of Oxford City Council