Friday, 5 September 2008
Council ChamberThe Member Support Team provides comprehensive administrative and secretarial support to all elected Members of Doncaster Council. The team keep records of the following documents, all of which can be viewed by the public at the office at 2 Priory Place:
The current Register of Interests for each Councillor can be seen on their individual profile by using this link - Council Chamber.
Local Councillors
You can find out who your Councillors are by postcode, by selecting the related link councillor.gov.
If you know which ward you live in or the name of your Councillors you should visit the Council Chamber where you will find their contact details, surgery* details, committees they sit on.
You can also find details of the agendas and reports for forthcoming Council meetings as well as the minutes of previous meetings.
Attached below is a list of contact details for all the Councillors. The Council poster below shows each Councillors photograph.
If you have any questions regarding your local Councillors, please contact the Member Support Team, either by e-mail or telephone (see above for details).
*Surgery is term used for a meeting, usually held within the ward, where people can meet with their local Councillor(s). No appointment is necessary and people are seen on a first come first served basis.
Town and Parish Councillors
Town and Parish Councillors work on a very local level for areas all over the Borough of Doncaster. To contact a Town or Parish Council or Councillor please use the pages in the menu to the left to find the Council you're looking for. Each page has contact details on it. Alternatively, please see attachment below which is a list of each Town and Parish Council clerk and their contact details.
MPs and MEPs
Doncaster Borough has four Members of Parliament covering four parliamentary constituencies, Central, North, Don Valley and Barnsley East & Mexborough. On the left hand side menu of this page, you can view further details about each one including how to contact them.
The Doncaster Metropolitan Borough is divided into 21 areas known as wards and each ward is represented by 3 democratically elected Councillors. There is a total of 63 ward Councillors altogether. Usually elections are held by thirds, which means that one Councillor from each ward is elected each year.
A Councillor serves a four year term of office which means that every fourth year no election takes place for ward Councillors. Doncaster has an Elected Mayor who also serves a four year term of office and that election takes place in the year when there are no local elections. The last local election was in May 2008 when 21 seats were subject to election, the next mayoral elections are in 2009.
Currently there are 27 Labour Councillors, 12 Liberal Democrat Councillors, 12 Alliance of Independent Councillors, 1 Independent Councillor, 9 Conservative Councillors and 3 Community Group Councillors.
As Councillors for Doncaster Council, our elected Members are entitled to specific basic allowances and allowable expenses. The allowance amounts are set each year and are payable to those Members undertaking the specified duties.
Details of the current allowances payable under this scheme are shown in the document below titled Members' Allowance Scheme.
Details of the payments that have been made to individual Members can be found by accessing the Members Allowances, Travel and Subsistence schedules for the relevant year as listed below. Such documents contain the details we are required to publish by law on the allowances paid to elected Members.
