CABINET

Hillingdon Cabinet – putting our residents first Hillingdon is a modern, transparent Council delivering excellent local services and putting residents first. Key to delivering this is strong and effective governance by the Leader of the Council and his Cabinet. The Cabinet is the Council’s leadership team, working closely with Officers. It is chaired by the Leader of the Council and comprises other Councillors (known as Cabinet Members) who are responsible and accountable for a range of Council services or a ‘portfolio’, e.g. finance, planning, family services etc… On a daily basis Cabinet Members make decisions individually on council services, take a lead on local issues and hold regular petition hearings listening directly to residents, seeking to resolve local issues.  

Cabinet Members Councillor Ian Edwards is the Leader of the Council and his Cabinet is set out below:  

Councillor Ian Edwards

Leader of the Council (Chairman of the Cabinet)

Councillor Jonathan Bianco  

Deputy Leader of the Council, (Vice-Chairman of the Cabinet) and Cabinet Member for Corporate Services & Property

Councillor Susan O'Brien  

Cabinet Member for Children, Families & Education

Councillor Eddie Lavery

Cabinet Member for Finance & Transformation

Councillor Jane Palmer  

Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care

Councillor Steve Tuckwell  

Cabinet Member for Planning, Housing & Growth

Councillor Wayne Bridges  

Cabinet Member for Community & Environment

  To find out more about each Cabinet Member’s responsibilities, you can view their delegations here.  

Watching a Cabinet meeting Monthly, Cabinet Members meet in public for Cabinet meetings to take the key decisions about the Borough. These are held at the Civic Centre.   Cabinet meetings are broadcast live to increase resident engagement in local democracy. You can watch Cabinet meetings live, or archived after the event, on the Council's YouTube channel: Hillingdon London. Residents are also welcome to attend a Cabinet meeting in person at the Civic Centre in Uxbridge. Details of when they are held are shown on this website, but they are usually at 7pm on the third Thursday of each month.   If you attend a Cabinet meeting you will not be able to directly speak, present to or lobby Councillors during the actual meeting, however, you are welcome to observe and listen to the proceedings quietly. We encourage people to attend Cabinet to see how Hillingdon Council is governed and decisions are made. For any further information, use the contact details below.   If there is a particular local matter that you wish to raise with a Cabinet Member, then we recommend you to take part in our well established Petitions Scheme in which thousands of residents each year participate in. You can contact Cabinet Members by telephoning the Civic Centre on 01895 250316 or by email to: democratic@hillingdon.gov.uk  

Decisions by the Cabinet The business of the Cabinet, i.e. the decisions it will make at meetings over the coming year are published in advance on a rolling document called the Forward Plan. This is updated monthly and can be viewed here.   About a week before any Cabinet meeting listed, an agenda is published on this website (links above) setting out any reports under consideration by the Cabinet for the meeting. The decisions made by the Cabinet are then usually published the day after the meeting to view.   Cabinet will consider most items in public, along with a public preview of confidential matters considered in private. For maximum transparency, the decisions made, irrespective of whether considered in public or private, are published on this website.