Committee details
Full Council
Purpose of committee
The Council is composed of 63 elected councillors. They all meet together as the Council to decide the Council's overall policies and to set the budget and council tax each year. The Council approves the Constitution and the membership of the Scrutiny Commissions and other Council Boards and Committees. You will find more information in the Constitution
Public Questions at Council Meetings
Any resident of the Borough is permitted to ask formal questions relating to the business of the Council. Such questions submitted in accordance with the requirements below, together with an appropriate response approved by the relevant Cabinet Spokesperson or Committee or Regulatory Board Chair, will be attached to the Council Summons (agenda) of the following Council meeting and will be posted with that Summons on the Council Website.
Questions need to be submitted four weeks in advance of the Council meeting (by no later than 4.30pm on the deadline date). Any questions submitted after this deadline will be held over until the following Council meeting.
Questions can be submitted in writing to the:-
Service Director, Law and Governance & Monitoring Officer
Council Governance Unit
Core Services Directorate
PO Box 634
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S70 9GG
or
by email: governance@barnsley.gov.uk (please put ‘Council Questions’ in the subject line).
If you require any further information please contact the Council Governance Unit on 01226 773451.
Membership
- Councillor Mick Stowe (Mayor)
- Councillor Robert Barnard
- Councillor Sue Bellamy
- Councillor Ruth Booker
- Councillor Janine Bowler
- Councillor Roy Bowser
- Councillor Alex Burnett
- Councillor Wendy Cain
- Councillor Alice Cave
- Councillor Trevor Cave
- Councillor Anita Cherryholme
- Councillor Sam Christmas
- Councillor John Clarke JP
- Councillor Dorothy Coates
- Councillor Dickie Denton
- Councillor Karen Dyson
- Councillor Brenda Eastwood
- Councillor Jeff Ennis OBE
- Councillor Will Fielding
- Councillor Robin Franklin
- Councillor Robert Frost
- Councillor Steve Green
- Councillor David Greenhough
- Councillor Joe Hayward
- Councillor James Higginbottom
- Councillor Sir Stephen Houghton CBE
- Councillor Sharon Howard
- Councillor Steve Hunt
- Councillor Hannah Kitching
- Councillor Dave Leech
- Councillor Jake Lodge
- Councillor Phillip Lofts
- Councillor Mandy Lowe-Flello
- Councillor Caroline Makinson
- Councillor Pauline Markham
- Councillor Pauline McCarthy
- Councillor Kath Mitchell
- Councillor Abi Moore
- Councillor Martin Morrell
- Councillor Janine Moyes
- Councillor Paul Murray
- Councillor Jo Newing
- Councillor Martin O'Donoghue
- Councillor Kevin Osborne
- Councillor Ashley Peace
- Councillor Clive Pickering
- Councillor Ken Richardson Msc
- Councillor Summer Risebury
- Councillor Margaret Sheard
- Councillor Tim Shepherd
- Councillor Ian Shirt
- Councillor Trevor Smith
- Councillor Nicola Sumner
- Councillor Sarah Tattersall
- Councillor Dave Webster
- Councillor David White
- Councillor John Wilson
- Councillor Andrew Wray
- Councillor Chris Wray
- Councillor Neil Wright
- Councillor Philip Wright
Contact information
Support officer: Peter Mirfin. Governance Manager
Email: governance@barnsley.gov.uk