The cabinet has ten members, including Councillor Mason, the leader of the council, and Councillor 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 and a brief overview of their portfolio areas
- Leader: Cllr Peter Mason
Email: masonpe@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @_petermason
Policy and performance, reform and transformation, media and communications, community engagement.
Duties and responsibilities:- Manifesto delivery
- Policy overview
- Major projects oversight
- Performance management
- Strategy and Change
- Community engagement strategy
- Civil protection
- Elections
- Local Strategic Partnership
- Communications, marketing, and public affairs
- Deputy leader and climate action: Cllr Deirdre Costigan
Email: CostiganD@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @deirdrecostigan
Active travel, climate crisis, highways, recycling and waste reduction, parks and green space, renewable energy.
Duties and responsibilities:- 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
- Inclusive economy - Cllr Steve Donnelly
Email: DonnellyS@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @SteveDW3
Finance, procurement, human resources, community wealth building (pension strategy remains the function of the Pensions Panel), social impact.
Duties and responsibilities:- 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
- Fire health and safety (corporate)
- Pension strategy performance
- Equality and diversity (internal)
- ICT and facilities
- Strategic procurement
- Human resources, internal training and skills
- Employee relations
- Legal services
- Democratic services
- Customer services and complaints
- Registrars
- Tackling inequality - Cllr Jasbir Anand
Email: Jasbir.Anand@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @JasbirAnand2
Public health, youth offending, eliminating violence against women and girls, youth service, policing, antisocial behaviour.
Duties and responsibilities:- Public health – Wider determinants of health & Health Improvement (with Healthy Lives portfolio)
- Youth service
- Youth offending
- Community safety (including ASB, drugs action and crime prevention)
- Police liaison
- CCTV
- Disabilities
- Eliminating violence against women and girls
- Equality and diversity (external)
- Gypsy, Roma and traveller community liaison
- Cemeteries and crematoria
- Faith and community groups
- Community cohesion
- Safe and genuinely affordable homes - Cllr Bassam Mahfouz
Email: bassam.mahfouz@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @BassamMahfouz
Temporary accommodation, housing demand, homelessness, and housing management.
Duties and responsibilities:- The Social Housing Regulator referral and recovery plan
- Housing asset management
- Estate management
- Fire health and safety (housing)
- HRA including business plan
- Housing allocations
- Tenancy management including housing hubs
- Homelessness and temporary accommodation management
- Housing strategy (with Good growth and new homes)
- Tenants Union
- Private housing sector supply and leasing
- Private rental sector licensing
- Good growth and new housing - Councillor Shital Manro
Email: ManroS@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @cllrshitalmanro
Planning, major projects, council property, regeneration strategy, new homes.
Duties and responsibilities:- Land charges
- Council property and assets
- Local Plan and planning policy
- Building and development control
- New housing supply, including HRA and Broadway Living
- Estate renewal
- Temporary accommodation (acquisition)
- Healthy lives - Cllr Josh Blacker
Email: BlackerJ@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @jkblacker
Public health, older people, adult social care, mental health, NHS.
Duties and responsibilities:- Public health – health protection and premature mortality (with tackling inequality portfolio)
- Active travel (with climate action portfolio)
- NHS relations
- Integrated Care System & Partnership
- NWL Health Accountability Board
- 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
- A fairer start - Cllr Kamaljit Kaur Nagpal
Email: Nagpalkk@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @kamnagpal
Children’s social care, school’s performance, child poverty, SEN.
Duties and responsibilities:- 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 music and library service
- Special educational needs
- Ealing Leaning Partnership
- Decent living incomes - Cllr Louise Brett
Email: brettl@ealing.gov.uk
Community wealth building, licensing, economic regeneration, skills, employment welfare reform, business support, further and higher education.
Duties and responsibilities:- 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)
- Thriving communities - Cllr Polly Knewstub
Email: knewstubp@ealing.gov.uk Twitter: @PKnewstub
Neighbourhood governance, volunteering, faith and community groups, libraries, sports, leisure and community centres, community cohesion, cemeteries and crematoria.
Duties and responsibilities:- 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
- Neighbourhood coordination and town forums
- Public toilets
- Pitzhanger Manor
- Culture, heritage and arts
- Tourism
- Ealing festivals and events
- Refugees and asylum seekers