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 the link below. You can also see which Committees each Councillor is appointed to.
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 please use the pages in the menu to the left to find the council you wish to contact and the details of the Clerk to that council.
At a Cabinet meeting held on 14 January 2009 it was agreed that Doncaster Council adopt a Joint Charter with Parish and Town Councils. The Charter is the result of discussions locally to establish a new way of working and to confirm existing good practice for the benefit of local people. 37 Town and Parish Councils, together with Doncaster Council, signed up to the Joint Charter.
The Charter can be viewed in the pdf document below:
Local Councillors
If you don't know who your councillors are you can telephone the contact at the top of this page, or you can look on My Doncaster. Under the Location Details tab, type in your address and click search, then click again on your address to bring up details in your area, look for Ward and select the link to find your councillors.
If you know which ward you live in or the name of your Councillors you can visit the Council Chamber where you will find their contact details, surgery* details.
In the Council Chamber you can also find details of the council's Constitution, agendas and reports for forthcoming Council meetings as well as minutes of previous meetings.
Another way of contacting your Councillor is by using the following e-form which will come to the Member Services email box and will be passed to the relevant ward Councillor:
Attached below is a list of contact details for all Councillors and Cabinet. The Council Poster showing the 3 councillors in each ward is currently being updated and will be added when available.
*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.
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.
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough is divided into 21 areas known as wards and each ward is represented by three democratically elected Councillors, also known as Elected Members, therefore there are 63 Councillors within the Doncaster Borough.
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 next local election will take place in May 2010, the next mayoral election takes place in 2013.
Currently the political constitution of the Council is Elected Mayor English Democrat, 25 Labour Councillors, 12 Liberal Democrat Councillors, 10 Alliance of Independent Councillors, 9 Conservative Councillors, 3 Independent Councillors, 4 Community Group Councillors.
The Member Development Working Group consists of a representative from each of the political groups on Doncaster Council and officers of the Council. The Working Group has been established to formulate a strategy for Councillor development and training whilst in their term of office. The documents below set out the strategy and action plan agreed by the Working Group.
Elected Members are entitled to a basic allowance, Special Responsibility (for holding particular positions) and allowable expenses. Allowances are recommended by an Independent Remuneration Panel, a panel appointed from members of the public. The allowances are indexed linked to the NJC pay award for Local Government employees.
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.
