Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council

Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council
Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council
33rd Wigan Council
Type
Type	Cabinet-style council
History
Founded	April 1, 1974
Preceded by	14 councils
Leadership
Mayor	Cllr Ronald Conway
Deputy Mayor	Cllr Bill Clarke
Council Leader	Lord Smith of Leigh, ; Labour Party
Deputy Leader	Cllr David Molyneux, ; Labour Party
Leader of the Opposition	Cllr Michael Winstanley, Conservative
Structure
Seats	75
Political groups	Labour (65); Conservative (5); Independent Network (2); Standish Independent (2); Independent (1);
Joint committees	Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Greater Manchester Police and Crime Panel
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post
Last election	2014 (one third of councillors); 2015 (one third of councillors); 2016 (one third of councillors)
Next election	2018 (one third of councillors); 2019 (one third of councillors); 2020 (one third of councillors)
Meeting place
	Wigan Town Hall; United Kingdom
Website
	www.wigan.gov.uk

The Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in the United Kingdom. It consists of 75 Councillors with one-third being elected every three years in four. The borough is separated into 25 wards. Councillors are democratically accountable to the ward they are elected to represent. Each ward is represented on the council by three council members.

Council members by ward

This is a list of the 33rd and current Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council:^[1]

Ward	Councillor		Party	Offices
Abram	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Eunice Smethurst	Labour	Vice-Chair of Confident Council Scrutiny Committee
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Martyn Smethurst	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Carl Sweeney	Labour	Chair of Audit, Governance and Improvement Review Committee
Ashton	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Nigel Dennis Ash	Labour	Chair of Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Bill Clarke	Labour	Deputy Mayor of Wigan
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Jennifer Bullen	Labour	Vice-Chair of Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee
Aspull	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	John Hilton	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Ronald Josef Conway	Labour	Mayor of Wigan
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Christopher Ready	Labour	Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Communities and Housing
Astley	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Christine Lillian Roberts	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color"\|	Joanne Platt	Labour Co-operative	Cabinet Porfolio Holder for Children and Young People Services
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Barry John Taylor	Labour
Atherleigh	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Mark Aldred	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Pamela Stewart MBE	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	John Harding	Labour
Atherton	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Karen Aldred	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Martin Luke Aldred	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	Jamie Hodgkinson	Independent Network
Bryn	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Nathan George Murray	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Margaret Ann Rampling	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	Stephen Jones	Independent Network
Douglas	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Pat Dewhurst	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Michael Anthony Dewhurst	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Shirley Dewhurst	Labour
Golborne and Lowton West	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Richard Andrew Barber	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Stuart Keane	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Yvonne Klieve	Labour
Hindley	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	James Churton	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Paul Blay	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	James Talbot	Labour
Hindley Green	style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	Robert Brierley	Independent
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Francis Stanley Carmichael	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color"\|	David Keir Stitt	Labour Co-operative
Ince	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	David Trevor Molyneux	Labour	Deputy Leader of the Council Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Regeneration
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	James Moodie	Labour	Chair of Confident Council Scrutiny Committee
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Janice Sharratt	Labour
Leigh East	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Keith Cunliffe	Labour	Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Adult and Social Care
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Anita Thorpe	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Fredrick Bown Walker	Labour
Leigh South	style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color"\|	Kevin Anderson	Labour Co-operative	Cabinet Portfolio Holder for the Environment
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	John David O'Brien	Labour	Chair of Confident Places Scrutiny Committee
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Charles Rigby	Labour	Chair of Standards Committee
Leigh West	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Susan June Greensmith	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Lord Smith of Leigh	Labour	Executive Leader of the Council
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Myra Joan Whiteside	Labour	Chair of Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee
Lowton East	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Edward Houlton	Conservative
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Kathleen Houlton	Conservative
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Nelson Grundy	Conservative
Orrell	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	David John Arrowsmith	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Steven Murphy	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Michael Winstanley	Conservative
Pemberton	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Paul Prescott	Labour	Chair of Planning Committee Chair of Regulation and Licensing Committee
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Jeanette Prescott	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Sam Marc Murphy	Labour
Shevington with Lower Ground	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Paul Anthony Collins	Labour	Vice-chair of Confident Places Scrutiny Committee
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Michael John Crosby	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Damian Edwardson	Labour	Vice-Chair of Health and Social Care Scrutiny Committee
Standish-with-Langtree	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Raymond Whittingham	Conservative
	style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	George Allan Fairhurst	Standish Independent
	style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	Debbie Fairhurst	Standish Independent
Tyldesley	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Nazia Rehman	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Stephen John Hellier	Labour	Vice-Chair of Planning Committee
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Joanne Marshall	Labour
Wigan Central	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	George Davies	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Lawrence Hunt	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Michael McLoughlin	Labour
Wigan West	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Phyllis Cullen	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Stephen Dawber	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Terence William Halliwell	Labour	Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Service Transformation
Winstanley	style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color"\|	Paul Terence Kenny	Labour Co-operative	Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Leisure Client and Resources
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Clive William Morgan	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Marie Morgan	Labour
Worsley Mesnes	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Phil Kelly	Labour
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	William Rotherham	Labour	Vice-Chair of Regulation and Licensing Committee
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Patricia Lynne Holland	Labour

Cabinet

Eight councilors are appointed to the cabinet who are each a 'Portfolio Holder' for an area of responsibility.^[2] (Such as 'Portfolio Holder for Environment').

Portfolio	Notes
Chairman	Responsibility for policy direction, finance, partnership working, external relations within Greater Manchester and at national level.
Regeneration	Planning, transportation, delivery of future housing, infrastructure, economic development and green infrastructure needs.
Children and Young People Services	Responsible for issues and services for ages ranging from 0 -19.
Adult and Social Care	Supporting people’s improved health and wellbeing in Wigan, including relationships with health partners.
Environment	Building up safer communities with police and other partners and stronger communities based on sustainable and affordable housing.
Communities and Housing	Building Self Reliance, Strengthening Communities and Communications.
Leisure Client and Resources	Human resources, and links to the Communication Portfolio in relation to its strategic lead for outward-facing services across the council in terms of commissioning i.e. organisational development, reputation management, policy support and performance management (for example, the Joint Service Centre).
Service Transformation	Transformation plans, public service reform and growth, customer services, welfare reform and the modern Councillor.

Deaths in office

On 28 January 2013, Councillor Barbara Bourne, a representative of Pemberton since 1996, died in office following a long term illness. She was responsible for a long campaign for a new medical centre, which was opened in the area of Kitt Green, in 2010.^[3] The office for a third councillor currently^[when?] remains vacant.

Notes

^ Abram Urban District Council, Ashton in Makerfield Urban District Council, Aspull Urban District Council, Atherton Urban District Council, Billinge and Winstanley Urban District Council, Hindley Urban District Council, Ince-in-Makerfield Urban District Council, Golborne Urban District Council, Leigh Borough Council, Orrell Urban District Council, Standish-with-Langtree Urban District Council, Tyldesley Urban District Council, Wigan Borough Council, Wigan Rural District Council

References

External links

Official website

[1] Abram Urban District Council, Ashton in Makerfield Urban District Council, Aspull Urban District Council, Atherton Urban District Council, Billinge and Winstanley Urban District Council, Hindley Urban District Council, Ince-in-Makerfield Urban District Council, Golborne Urban District Council, Leigh Borough Council, Orrell Urban District Council, Standish-with-Langtree Urban District Council, Tyldesley Urban District Council, Wigan Borough Council, Wigan Rural District Council

[2] ttp://democracy.wigan.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=LIST&PIC=0

[3] "About the Cabinet". wigan.gov.uk.

[4] ttp://manchestergazette.co.uk/archives/11573

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Council members by ward

Cabinet

See also

Notes

References

External links