The City Council currently operates a Cabinet structure.  Each Cabinet Member has a specific responsibility for an area of the Council’s activities (a portfolio), and these Councillors come together and meet as the Cabinet.  The Cabinet has authority to take some important decisions about Council policy and services.

The Cabinet consists of the Leader and Deputy Leader of the Council together with eight Councillors holding portfolios as follows:

Leader of the Council: Councillor Paul Watson

Deputy Leader of the Council: Councillor Florence Anderson

Portfolio Holders: 

Meetings of the Cabinet are held every four weeks on a Wednesday at 2.00pm in the Council Chamber in the Civic Centre.

Members of the press and public may attend Cabinet meetings, but they are not allowed to speak or interrupt the proceedings.  There other ways in which you can have your say on council matters.

Copies of Agendas and Minutes for meetings are available to members of the public.

The terms of reference of the Council and its Committees are set out in the Articles of the Council's Constitution.

The Membership of the Council and its Committees are set out in the Council's Year Book.

Contact Democratic Services, Civic Centre, Sunderland, SR2 7DN

Monday – Thursday 8.30 am - 5.15 pm,  Friday 8.30 am - 4.45 pm

e-mail committees@sunderland.gov.uk or tel: (0191) 553 1325/1330

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