The cabinet has ten members, including Councillor Peter Mason, the leader of the council, and Councillor Deirdre Costigan, deputy leader. Each member has a specific area of responsibility (also known as a portfolio) and is accountable for the council's everyday decision-making process.
The role and responsibility of a cabinet member include:
- initiating policy
- making decisions and implementing council policies within their portfolio
- acting as spokesperson for the council on services and functions within their portfolio
- being a member of cabinet and sharing the collective responsibility for decisions taken by the cabinet
- developing partnership working with other organisations in the borough.
Cabinet members including duties and responsibilities
- Leader: Cllr Peter Mason
Email: masonpe@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @_petermason
Leading the team delivering real change for Ealing, setting our political vision and engaging everyone to build an open, transparent and inclusive council.- Manifesto delivery
- Policy overview
- Major projects oversight (with Good Growth portfolio)
- Performance management
- Reform and transformation
- Community engagement
- Neighbourhood governance
- Civil protection
- Member development
- Elections
- Local Area Agreement
- Marketing and communications
- Councillor’s allowances
- Armed Forces Covenant
- Deputy leader and climate action: Cllr Deirdre Costigan
Email: CostiganD@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @deirdrecostigan
Greening and keeping Ealing clean, achieving net zero carbon, and ensuring our parks, open spaces and nature are protected and enhanced.- Climate action and sustainability
- Air quality
- Strategic transport strategy and policy
- TfL relations and LIP funding
- Active Travel (with Healthy Lives portfolio)
- Recycling, refuse, plastics, waste disposal and reduction
- Street cleansing
- Street lighting
- Environmental enforcement
- Waterways, canal paths and bridleways
- Road safety
- Traffic and congestion
- Parking, enforcement and CPZs
- Highways and footways
- Renewable energy
- Gunnersbury Park
- Trees, parks and countryside
- Decent living incomes - Cllr Bassam Mahfouz
Email mahfouzb@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @BassamMahfouz
Bringing new and well-paid jobs back to Ealing and securing a strong economic recovery where good businesses can thrive.- COVID19 recovery
- Economic development
- Community wealth building (with Inclusive Economy portfolio)
- Community development
- Post 16 education
- Adult education
- Benefits
- Apprenticeships
- Skills
- Employment
- Welfare reform
- Business support
- Financial inclusion
- Pre-employment programmes
- Economic resilience
- Economic regeneration
- Job clubs and brokerage
- Further education and higher education
- Regulatory services (environmental health, trading standards, licensing and community health and safety)
- Inclusive economy - Cllr Steve Donnelly
Email: DonnellyS@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @SteveDW3
Building wealth within the community by ensuring everything the council does increases social value and contributes to making Ealing a fairer place to live and work.- Budget and finance
- Community wealth building
- Social value and impact
- Digital borough
- Digital council
- Capital resources
- Income
- Investment and external funding
- Central government grants
- Risk management
- ICT and facilities
- Strategic procurement
- Human resources, internal training and skills
- Employee relations
- Legal services
- Customer services and complaints
- Registrars
- Genuinely affordable homes - To be confirmed
Delivering our radical programme of social rent council house building, and ensuring our tenants are empowered and have ownership of their communities.- Housing strategy and policy
- Property and estates
- Housing allocations
- Temporary accommodation
- Housing advice
- Homelessness
- Housing management
- Housing hubs
- Tenancy management
- Rents
- Estate renewal
- Broadway Living
- Leaseholder services
- Good growth and new homes - Cllr Shital Manro
Email: ManroS@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @cllrshitalmanro
Making sure the growth that takes place in Ealing enhances its character, conserves its future and makes great places people want to live.- Major projects oversight (with Leader)
- Regeneration strategy
- Land charges
- Private housing sector supply and leasing
- Private rental sector licencing
- Council property and assets
- Local Plan and planning policy
- Building and development control
- Thriving communities - Cllr Jasbir Anand
Email: anandj@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @JasbirAnand2
Bringing people together to build strong neighbourhoods, empowering volunteers, encouraging community activism, engaging civic and faith leaders, and delivering well-loved community facilities and services. - Faith and community groups
- Community cohesion
- Sports and leisure centres (with Healthy Lives portfolio)
- Sports development (with Healthy Lives portfolio)
- Halls and community centres
- Volunteering and community sector (including VCS grants)
- Libraries
- Cemeteries and crematoria
- Public toilets
- Pitzhanger Manor
- Culture, heritage and arts
- Tourism
- Ealing festivals
- A fairer start - Cllr Kamaljit Kaur Nagpal
Email: Nagpalkk@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @kamnagpal
Ensuring all our children and young people of all backgrounds get the best start in life, from their earliest years through to a great education.- Children’s social care
- Child poverty
- Fostering and adoption
- Child protection
- Children’s homes
- Home/school transport
- Looked after children
- Nursery education and childcare
- Play service
- Primary and secondary education
- School library service
- Special educational needs
- Ealing Leaning Partnership
- Tackling inequality - Cllr Aysha Raza
Email: RazaA@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @DrAyshaRaza
Relentlessly focusing on reducing poverty and inequality for those that most need support and promoting wellbeing and safety for all.- Public Health – Wider determinants of health and health improvement (with Healthy Lives portfolio)
- Youth service
- Youth offending
- Community safety (including ASB, drugs action and crime prevention)
- Police liaison
- CCTV
- Disabilities
- Violence against women and girls
- Equality and diversity
- Refugees and asylum seekers
- Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community liaison
- Healthy lives - Cllr Josh Blacker
Email: BlackerJ@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @jkblacker
Combating COVID-19, protecting and enhancing the physical and mental health of all, supporting our older residents to enable them to remain independent and resilient.- Public health – Health protection and premature mortality (with Tackling Inequality portfolio)
- COVID-19
- Active travel (with Climate Action portfolio)
- Sports and leisure centres (with Thriving Communities portfolio)
- Sports development (with Thriving Communities portfolio)
- NHS relations
- Adult social care
- Assessment and care services for older people and adults with needs arising from disabilities and mental health
- Accommodation and day activities
- Promoting independence
- Safeguarding adults
- Mental health
- Supporting people
- Disability facilities grants, handyperson scheme and other grants
- Sheltered housing