New CCN Spokesman Appointed

Spokesman will support the work of the Chairman and CCN’s Management Committee and will lead on each of CCN’s policy priorities.

Spokesmen are allocated on a broadly politically proportionate basis and political groups are responsible for nominating individual Spokesmen for policy priorities agreed by Management Committee.

Policy Priorities and political allocations for Spokesmen for 2015/16 are as follows:

Conservative

• Devolution – Cllr Martin Hill, Leader, Lincolnshire County Council
• Public Sector Reform – Cllr Philip Atkins, Leader, Staffordshire County Council
• Health & Social Care – Cllr Colin Noble, Leader, Suffolk County Councty
• Children, Young People & Learning – Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Oxfordshire County Council

Labour

• Economic Growth & Prosperity – Cllr Anne Western, Leader, Derbyshire County Counci
• Local Government Finance – Cllr David Borrow, Deputy Leader, Lancashire County Council

Liberal Democrat

• Communities & Wellbeing – Cllr Ian Stewart, Cabinet Member for Public Health & Community Services, Cumbria County Council