Committee details

The Leader and Cabinet Members

 

The Leader is responsible for deciding how all of Harlow’s “Executive Functions” will be exercised.

 

There are a several ways that Executive Functions can be exercised, but this is typically done by Cabinet Members (which includes the Leader) taking the most important decisions within their portfolios, which are the groups of functions that the Leader has made them responsible for.

 

The Cabinet

 

The Leader may also decide that some decisions about Executive Functions should be exercised by the Cabinet collectively. The Leader may also establish Cabinet Committees to take decisions about Executive Functions. Any Cabinet Committees that the Leader has established will be set out here, along with their terms of reference. The Leader will give notice of decisions that are to be taken by the Cabinet collectively in the Leader’s Register, or by a Cabinet Committee, which is published here.

 

The Leader’s Register also gives notice of all Key Decisions that are due to be taken.

 

Decisions taken by Cabinet collectively are set out here.

 

Decisions taken by Cabinet Members are set out here.

 

The current Cabinet Members and their Portfolio Responsibilities are as follows:

 

Councillor Dan Swords – Leader of the Council

 

·       All executive functions of the council

·       Corporate leadership of the council

·       Regeneration, economic development and inward investment

·       Legal and Governance

 

Councillor David Carter – Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Housing

 

·       Housing Management

·       Housing Property Services

·       Housing Needs and Options

·       Supported Housing

·       Home Ownership

·       Tenant and Leaseholder engagement

·       Housing services

 

Councillor Hannah Ellis – Cabinet Member for Corporate Services and Transformation

 

·       Business insight

·       Customer services

·       IT and digital

·       Transformation

·       Electoral Services

·       Project Management Office

·       HR and Organisational Development

 

Councillor James Leppard – Cabinet Member for Finance

 

·       Accountancy and corporate finance

·       Insurance

·       Revenues and Benefits

·       Facilities and Assets

 

Councillor Nicky Purse – Cabinet Member for Environment

 

·       Street scene and grounds maintenance

·       Environment operations, GIS and parking

·       Waste management

·       Environmental Health – policy

·       Licensing – policy

·       Sustainability and climate change

 

Councillor Joel Charles – Cabinet Member for Public Protection

 

·       Community Safety

·       Emergency Planning

·       Environmental Health – enforcement

·       Licensing – enforcement

 

Councillor Danielle Brown – Cabinet Member for Culture and Community

 

·       Community

·       Leisure services

·       Culture

·       Youth, Citizenship and Engagement

 

Councillor Alastair Gunn – Cabinet Member for Garden Town and Planning

 

·       Planning services

·       Forward Planning

·       Development Management and Building Control

·       Harlow and Gilston Garden Town

 

Councillor Michael Hardware – Cabinet Member for Local Government Reorganisation and Devolution

 

·       Local Government Reorganisation

·       Devolution

 

Alternative Arrangements 

 

The leader may, from time to time, put in place Alternative Arrangements which change the way that Executive Functions are typically exercised. Any Alternative Arrangements currently in place are set out here.  

 

More information about Executive Functions and the Executive is set out in the constitution.