Blog Posts

  • New cabinet – cross cutting portfolios

    I was able to announce my new cabinet. This is exciting and full of promise but also a sad event as it means some excellent and hardworking individuals must leave the cabinet. I wanted a certain shape to the cabinet based on ability, energy, freshness, experience and team bonding. I have changed a number of Read more

  • County Council – Conservative Group AGM 13th May 2011

    From being elected as leader of the group on the 15th April it has seemed a long time before the result of the election was ratified at our group AGM on the 13th May. During this period the title leader designate has been used widely. It was an interesting AGM. We all paid tribute to Read more

  • County Council Conservatives Leader Election

    This was an important day. The election for leader of our conservative group, at the County Council, took place. That was important because as the conservative group has the majority in the council chamber the leader of the group also becomes the Leader of the Council. I was very honoured to have been selected as Read more

  • Lib Dem leader finds guided busway difficulties a giggling matter

    Cabinet met on Tuesday 5th April. One of the items discussed was a progress report on the guided busway. This issue is a serious matter as the contractor is playing contractual games to try to avoid it’s liabilities under the contract. Whilst the disput continues the public are not getting the benefit of the busway Read more

  • Cambridgeshire one of top performing councils for social care contact services

    Cambridgeshire County Council is one of the top performing local authorities in the country for the way it handles first time contact from the public re Adult Social Care Services. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has just published the results of a survey of all local authorities across the country which are responsible for providing Read more

  • Local Government Resource Review

    The current dependency of councils on central grant allocations makes planning difficult, weakens accountability, and stifles local innovation. In the future, Government is keen to move to a radically different system of funding and support for councils that is built on strong incentives, is driven by local decision-making and breaks this dependency. This would include Read more