Finance Council

Attendance (42 councillors)

Councillor	Party	Ward	Status
Altaf Ibrahim Patel	Independent	Little Harwood and Whitebirk	Expected
Anthony Shaw	Labour	Darwen South	Expected
Brian Taylor	Labour	Darwen West	Expected
Damian Talbot	Labour	Mill Hill and Moorgate	Expected
David Smith	Labour	Darwen West	Expected
Derek James Hardman	Conservative	Livesey with Pleasington	Expected
Ehsan Raja	Labour	Audley & Queens Park	Expected
Elaine Whittingham	Labour	Ewood	Expected
Jackie Floyd	Labour	Billinge and Beardwood	Expected
Jacqueline Slater	Conservative	Blackburn South and Lower Darwen	Expected
Jean Rigby	Conservative	West Pennine	Expected
Jim Casey	Labour	Ewood	Expected
Jim Shorrock	Labour	Blackburn South East	Expected
Jim Smith	Labour	Mill Hill and Moorgate	Expected
John Slater	Conservative	Blackburn South and Lower Darwen	Expected
Julie Louise Gunn	Labour	Mill Hill and Moorgate	Expected
Julie Slater	Conservative	West Pennine	Expected
Katrina Louise Fielding	Labour	Darwen East	Expected
Kevin Connor	Conservative	Darwen South	Expected
Mahfooz Hussain	Labour	Blackburn Central	Expected
Mark Russell	Conservative	Livesey with Pleasington	Expected
Martin McCaughran	Labour	Darwen East	Expected
Matt Gibson	Labour	Darwen East	Expected
Matthew Jackson	Labour	Darwen South	Expected
Mustafa Desai	4 BwD	Little Harwood and Whitebirk	Expected
Neil Andrew Slater	Conservative	West Pennine	Expected
Parwaiz Akhtar	Labour	Bastwell and Daisyfield	Expected
Paul David Marrow	Conservative	Livesey with Pleasington	Expected
Phil Riley	Labour	Roe Lee	Expected
Quesir Mahmood	Labour	Wensley Fold	Expected
Sabahat Imtiaz	Labour	Wensley Fold	Expected
Saj Ali	4 BwD	Roe Lee	Expected
Salim Sidat MBE	4 BwD	Audley & Queens Park	Expected
Salma Patel	4 BwD	Shear Brow and Corporation Park	Expected
Shaukat Hussain	Labour	Bastwell and Daisyfield	Expected
Sonia Khan	Labour	Little Harwood and Whitebirk	Expected
Stephanie Rose Brookfield	Labour	Darwen West	Expected
Suleman Khonat	4 BwD	Shear Brow and Corporation Park	Expected
Tasleem Fazal	Labour	Billinge and Beardwood	Expected
Tony Humphrys	Labour	Blackburn South East	Expected
Vicky Ellen McGurk	Labour	Blackburn South East	Expected
Zamir Khan MBE	Labour	Blackburn Central	Expected

Data last updated: 23 February 2026