West Berkshire Council Announces Executive Reshuffle

West Berkshire Council has announced its' new composition at the annual ceremony.

The main roles will be filled as follows:

Chairman of Council:	Cllr Keith Chopping
Vice-Chairman of Council:	Cllr David Holtby
Leader of Council & Conservative Group Leader:	Cllr Gordon Lundie
Deputy Conservative Group Leader:	Cllr Pamela Bale
Liberal Democrat Group Leader:	Cllr Jeff Brooks
Deputy Liberal Democrat Group Leader:	Cllr Roger Hunneman

Conservatives have overall control  by 39-13 and hold the 10 Executive Portfolios, which are shadowed by 8 Opposition members.

Aldermaston Ward's Councillor Irene Neill is in charge of the Education department. She will continue to be shadowed by Cllr David Allen.

In addition to these reshuffled membership was announced for various other positions: the Health & Wellbeing Board, the Overview & Scrutiny Management Commission, the Licensing Committee, the District Panning Committee, Eastern and Western Area Planning Committees, the Governance and Audit Committee, the Personnel Committee and the Standards Committee.

Here is the full list:
 

EXECUTIVE (10 Members)

Portfolio	Member
Leader of Council	Gordon Lundie
Highways, Transport (Operations), Emergency Planning, Newbury Vision	Pamela Bale
Children and Young People, Youth Service, Education	Irene Neill
Community Care, Insurance	Joe Mooney
Planning, Transport (Policy), Culture, Customer Services, Countryside	Hilary Cole
Finance, Economic Development, Health & Safety, Human Resources, Pensions, Property	Alan Law
Cleaner & Greener, Waste, Environmental Health, Trading Standards, Thatcham Vision	Dominic Boeck
Strategy & Performance, Housing, ICT & Corporate Support, Legal and Strategic Support	Roger Croft
Partnerships, Equality, Communities, Hungerford and Eastern Area Visions	Graham Pask
Health and Well Being, Community Safety	Graham Jones

SHADOW EXECUTIVE (8 Members)

Portfolio	Member
Leader of Opposition, Finance, HR, Economic Development, Pensions, Strategy, Property, Insurance, Legal	Jeff Brooks
Community Care, ICT, The Visions	Roger Hunneman
Environment, Environmental Protection	Royce Longton
Housing, Council Plan, Health & Safety	Tony Vickers
Highways, Transport, Planning, Emergency Planning	Keith Woodhams
Health and Wellbeing, Public Health, Partnerships, Equality, Customer Services, Strategic Support, Community Safety	Gwen Mason
Children and Young People, Education, Youth Service, Culture & Leisure	David Allen

HEALTH AND WELLBEING BOARD (April 2013)

Name	Role/Organisation	Email
Councillor Graham Jones	Portfolio Holder for Health and Wellbeing	gjones@westberks.gov.uk
Councillor Graham Pask	Portfolio Holder for Partnerships, Equality, Communities, Hungerford and Eastern Area Visions	gpask@westberks.gov.uk
Lise Llewellyn	Strategic Director of Public Health	Lise.Llewellyn@bracknell-forest.gov.uk
Dr Catherine Kelly	North and West Reading Clinical Commissioning Group	c.kelly1@nhs.net
Dr Alex Anderson	Newbury and District Clinical Commissioning Group	alex.anderson1@nhs.net
Rachael Wardell	Director of Community Services (role covers Children Services and Adult Social Services)	rwardell@westberks.gov.uk
Lady Emma Stevens	Local Healthwatch representative	emma.stevens@healthwatchwestberkshire.co.uk
Leila Ferguson	Representative from the Voluntary and Community Sector	ceo@westberkshiremencap.org

OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY MANAGEMENT COMMISSION (16 Members)

Conservative Group (9 Members)	Jeff Beck, Brian Bedwell (Chairman), Marcus Franks, David Goff, David Holtby, Mike Johnston, Tim Metcalfe, Andrew Rowles, Virginia von Celsing, Quentin Webb, Emma Webster, Laszlo Zverko
Conservative Substitutes (4 Members)	Peter Argyle, George Chandler, Carol Jackson-Doerge, Garth Simpton
Liberal Democrat Group (3 Members)	Jeff Brooks (Vice‑Chairman), Alan Macro, Gwen Mason, Tony Vickers
Liberal Democrat Substitutes	Roger Hunneman, David Rendel, Julian Swift‑Hook, Keith Woodhams

LICENSING COMMITTEE (14 Members) – no substitutes

Conservative Group (11 Members)	Peter Argyle, Jeff Beck (Chairman), Paul Bryant, Adrian Edwards, Manohar Gopal, David Holtby, Tony Linden, Andrew Rowles, Ieuan Tuck, Quentin Webb, Laszlo Zverko
Liberal Democrat Group (3 Members)	Billy Drummond, Mollie Lock (Vice‑Chairman), Geoff Mayes

DISTRICT PLANNING COMMITTEE (12 Members)

Conservative Group (9 Members)	Pamela Bale, Brian Bedwell, Paul Bryant, Hilary Cole (Chairman), Alan Law, Graham Pask, Garth Simpson, Virginia von Celsing, Quentin Webb (Vice‑Chairman)
Conservative Substitutes (4 Members – 2 from the Eastern Area of the District and 2 from the Western Area of the District)	Jeff Beck, George Chandler, Richard Crumly, Tim Metcalfe
Liberal Democrat Group (3 Members)	David Allen, Royce Longton, Alan Macro
Liberal Democrat Substitutes (4 Members – 2 from the Eastern Area of the District and 2 from the Western Area of the District)	Geoff Mayes, Roger Hunneman, Julian Swift‑Hook, Keith Woodhams

EASTERN AREA PLANNING COMMITTEE (12 Members)

Conservative Group (9)	Peter Argyle, Pamela Bale, Brian Bedwell (Vice‑ Chairman), Richard Crumly, Alan Law, Tim Metcalfe, Irene Neill, Graham Pask, Quentin Webb (Chairman)
Conservative Group Substitutes (4)	Roger Croft, Sheila Ellison, Manohar Gopal, Tony Linden
Liberal Democrat Group (3)	Royce Longton, Alan Macro, Geoff Mayes
Liberal Democrat Group Substitutes (4)	Jeff Brooks, Mollie Lock, David Rendel, Keith Woodhams

WESTERN AREA PLANNING COMMITTEE (12 Members)

Conservative Group (9)	Jeff Beck, Paul Bryant (Chairman), George Chandler, Hilary Cole, Paul Hewer, Garth Simpson, Anthony Stansfeld, Ieuan Tuck, Virginia von Celsing (Vice‑Chairman)
Conservative Group Substitutes (4)	Howard Bairstow, Adrian Edwards, Mike Johnston, Andrew Rowles
Liberal Democrat Group (3)	David Allen, Roger Hunneman, Julian Swift‑Hook
Liberal Democrat Group Substitutes (4)	Billy Drummond, Gwen Mason, Tony Vickers, 1 vacancy

GOVERNANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE (7 Members)

Conservative Group (5 Members)	Jeff Beck (Chairman), Paul Bryant, David Holtby, Tony Linden, Quentin Webb
Conservative Group Substitutes (2)	Peter Argyle, Brian Bedwell
Liberal Democrat Group (2 Members)	Julian Swift‑Hook (Vice‑Chairman), Geoff Mayes
Liberal Democrat Group Substitutes (2)	Gwen Mason, Tony Vickers

PERSONNEL COMMITTEE (5 Members)

Conservative Group (4 Members)	Peter Argyle, Tony Linden, Andrew Rowles, Quentin Webb (Chairman)
Conservative Group Substitutes (2)	Jeff Beck, Adrian Edwards
Liberal Democrat Group (1 Member)	Mollie Lock (Vice‑Chairman)
Liberal Democrat Group Substitutes (2)	David Allen, Jeff Brooks

STANDARDS COMMITTEE (6 Members) (There are no substitutes on this Committee and these Members cannot form part of the Standards Committee’s Advisory Panel)

Conservative Group (4 Members)	Peter Argyle (Chairman), Adrian Edwards, Garth Simpson, Virginia von Celsing
Liberal Democrat Group (2 Members)	Mollie Lock, Gwen Mason (Vice-Chairman)
Co-optees (2)	Chris Bridges, Mauline Akins