Cabinet

Councillor Arthur Taylor was elected as Chairman of the Council, While Councillor Lady Pigot was elected Vice Chairman.

Councillor David Pugh was elected leader of the Isle of Wight Council on the 19 September 2007. Cllr Pugh will be the Cabinet Member for Housing, Leisure and Governance.

• Cllr George Brown – Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Economy, Planning and Property
• Cllr Dawn Cousins – Cabinet Member for Health and Community Wellbeing.
• Cllr Barry Abraham – Cabinet Member for Residents and Resources.
• Cllr Tim Hunter-Henderson – Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport.
• Cllr Diana Tuson JP – Cabinet Member for Safer Communities.
• Cllr Alan Wells – Cabinet Member for Children & Young People.

Other appointments are:

Scrutiny Committee: Chairman – Cllr Muriel Miller

Audit Committee – Chairman – Cllr Colin West

Standards Committee – Chairman: Mark Southwell

Planning Committee - Chairman: Cllr Ivan Bulwer; Vice Chairman Cllr Susan Scoccia

Licensing Committee - Chairman: Cllr Susan Scoccia

General Purposes Committee - Chairman: Cllr Lady Pigot

Policy Commission for Safer Communities
Chairman Cllr David Williams

Policy Commission for Children and School Results
Chairman – Cllr George Cameron

Policy Commission for Economy, Tourism, Regeneration and Transport
Chairman – Cllr Fitzgerald-Bond

Policy Commission for Care, Health and Housing
Chairman – Erica Oulton

Champions

The meeting of the full council also endorsed following member champion appointments:

Housing and Homelessness - Cllr Bill Burt
Older People – Cllr Margaret Webster
Children - Cllr Gill Kennett
Civic Pride - Cllr David Whittaker
Heritage and Environment – Cllr John Hobart

Their Key Tasks Will Be
Signposting: councillors know how the system works and who to contact. They are well-placed to advise local people about local issues and can point people in the right direction;
Monitoring: councillors can help local people make progress by overseeing and intervening on their behalf;
acting as an advocate - councillors have the necessary status, skills and abilities to tackle failure. When things break down or go wrong councillors, as elected representatives, are well placed to intervene and seek redress on behalf of local people; and
representing: councillors can spot emerging issues and trends. They will know when a series of individual issues indicates that there is a real failure in the system that needs to be taken up the council itself and they can feed views into the local authority and it’s partnerships