The
Cabinet is the main decision-making body of the Council.
It is
responsible for the strategic management of Council services, and
consists of a Cabinet Leader and 7 other Cabinet Members, each of
whom holds a Portfolio covering a particular service area. You can
view
details of these responsibilities can be found on the
website.
Most
important decisions are made by the Cabinet collectively, although
Cabinet Members can take some decisions individually within their
area of responsibility.
The
Cabinet usually meets every six weeks in public in the Town Hall,
Stockport.
Members
of the public can submit questions to the Cabinet on any matters
within its powers and duties (excluding legal issues and other
confidential matters). Questions must be submitted in
writing in advance of the meeting (no later than 3 hours before the
meeting starts). You can submit a question and view the
Code of Practice using the online
question form.
The Forward Plan is published every month and lists key decisions
to be made by the Cabinet within the following four months to allow
at least 28 clear days’ notice. The
Forward Plan is available to view on the website. Where a
decision needs to be taken more urgently so that giving 28
days’ notice is impractical, a
General Exception Notice or Special Urgency Notice will be
published and these will be available to view on the website
also.
The Cabinet is
required to give advanced notice if there is likely to be
confidential or ‘exempt’ information considered at one
of its meetings, and the public may need to be excluded for that
part of the meeting. Members of the public will be able to make
representations about this before the meeting and these will then
be considered by the Cabinet before a decision is made to exclude
the public. Where a decision needs to be taken more
urgently so that giving 28 days’ notice is impractical
a notice will be published on the setting out the reasons. These
notices can be found on the website.
The Cabinet was
previously referred to as the Executive up to May 2017. Copies of
Executive papers remain available on the website
