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Leeds City Council is the local authority of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. Leeds has had a council since 1626, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974 it has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city. It is the second most populous local government district in the United Kingdom with approximately 800,000 inhabitants living within its area; only Birmingham City Council has more. Since 1 April 2014, it has been a constituent council of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

The council has been under Labour majority control since 2011. It meets at Leeds Civic Hall and has its main offices at Merrion House.

History

Leeds Corporation

Leeds (historically often spelt Leedes) was a manor and then a town, receiving a charter from King Charles I as a 'Free Borough' in 1626 giving it powers of self-government, leading to the formation of the Leeds Corporation to administer it.[1][2] The leader was initially an alderman, the first holder being Sir John Savile.[3] A second charter, granted in 1661 by Charles II, gave the town the right to appoint a mayor. The first holder of that post was Thomas Danby.[3]

Leeds was reformed in 1836 to become a municipal borough under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, which standardised how most boroughs were governed across England and Wales. The ruling body was then formally called the "mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Leeds", generally known as the corporation or town council.[4][1] When elected county councils were created in 1889 Leeds was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services and so it became a county borough, independent from the new West Riding County Council. Leeds became a city in 1893, after which the corporation was also known as the city council. In 1897 the mayoralty was raised to a lord mayor.

Leeds City Council

The modern city council was established in 1974, with the first elections being held in advance in 1973. Under the Local Government Act 1972, the area of the County Borough of Leeds was combined with those of the Municipal Borough of Morley, the Municipal Borough of Pudsey, Aireborough Urban District, Horsforth Urban District, Otley Urban District, Garforth Urban District, Rothwell Urban District and parts of Tadcaster Rural District, Wetherby Rural District and Wharfedale Rural District from the West Riding. The new Leeds district was one of five metropolitan districts in West Yorkshire. Leeds' borough and city statuses and right to appoint a lord mayor were transferred to the enlarged district.[5]

From 1974 until 1986 the city council was a second-tier authority, with West Yorkshire County Council providing many key services. However, the metropolitan county councils were abolished under the Local Government Act 1985 and the council took responsibility for all former County Council functions. Some functions, notably policing, fire services and public transport are run by joint committees of the five metropolitan boroughs in West Yorkshire.

Since 2014 the council has been a constituent member of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.[6] The combined authority has been led by the directly elected Mayor of West Yorkshire since 2021.

Council services

Leeds City Council is responsible for providing all statutory local authority services in Leeds, except for those it provides jointly in conjunction with other West Yorkshire authorities. This includes education, housing, planning, transport and highways, social services, libraries, leisure and recreation, waste collection, waste disposal, environmental health and revenue collection. The council is one of the largest employers in West Yorkshire, with around 33,000 employees.[7]

Education Leeds

Education Leeds was set up in 2001 as a non-profit making company wholly owned by Leeds City Council to provide education support services for the council.[8] For its first five years it operated as a public-private partnership between the Council and Capita. The senior councillors of the council's executive board voted in March 2010 to stop using Education Leeds to provide services from 31 March 2011,[9] thereby effectively causing it to cease operation.

Housing

Until 1 October 2013, Leeds City Council's housing stock was managed and operated by three Arms Length Management Organisations (ALMOs) since 2007. They were wholly owned by the council but operated as autonomous and self-governing organisations. The ALMOs, which are arranged on a regional basis were:

  • East North East Homes[10]
  • West North West Homes[11]
  • Aire Valley Homes[12]

As of 1 October 2013, the ALMOs returned to Leeds City Council and all management of council housing stock became the responsibility of Housing Leeds. At this point, the ALMOs ceased to exist.

Management of more than 2000 homes in Belle Isle is carried out by Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation, the largest tenant management organisation in the UK outside London.[13]

Leeds Museums & Galleries

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Established in 1821, it is the largest local authority-run museum service in England, with one of the larger and more significant multidisciplinary collections in the UK, looking after 1.3 million objects.[15] The service is run and primarily funded by Leeds City Council (LCC), and plays a significant role in shaping the cultural life of the city, but as a leading museum service it has a regional and national reputation and role. In 2012 the organisation achieved Major Partner Museum status from Arts Council England, which brought significant additional funding and further national prominence and expectation.[16]

The service has at times run major events across the city, with visitors numbering in the millions, such as the 2014-19 Legacies of War Project, which examined how Leeds was affected by the First World War,[17] and developed teaching materials for schools.[18]

Leeds Museums & Galleries is made up of nine different sites: Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds City Museum, Kirkstall Abbey, Abbey House Museum, Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills, Thwaite Mills, Lotherton Hall, Temple Newsam and Leeds Discovery Centre.

Waste disposal and recycling

The city operates waste disposal and recycling facilities in Kirkstall, Meanwood, Middleton, Otley, Pudsey, Seacroft, Wetherby (Thorp Arch) and Yeadon.[19]

West Yorkshire Joint Services

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Council structures

Overview and scrutiny

The executive and workings of the council are overseen by six scrutiny boards. These panels involve councillors from all parties and some independent members. Scrutiny boards are able to review decisions taken by the executive or by officers of the council and to refer them for further consideration.

Regulatory

The licensing committee of the council is drawn from councillors from all parties and is responsible for entertainment, refreshment, personal and premises licences established under the Licensing Act 2003. Three plans panels are responsible for determining planning applications which have not been delegated to officers for decision, such as large or controversial applications or those in which a councillor or officer has a personal interest.

Community committees

Ten community committees are responsible for managing certain area-specific budgets and responsibilities, such as community centres and CCTV, in partnership with local communities. Five of the community committees cover areas in "inner Leeds" and five cover areas in "outer Leeds".[21] These committees also exert considerable influence over other areas of local interest such as street-cleansing and community policing.

Lord Mayor of Leeds

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The first Mayor of Leeds was Thomas Danby in 1661, and the first Lord Mayor was James Kitson in 1897.[23]

During the mayoral year, the Lord Mayor's Charity Appeal raises funds for one or more charities of the mayor's choice.

Leadership

The council operates a Leader and Cabinet executive as defined under Section 11 of the Local Government Act 2000. The executive board of the council currently consists of nine executive members with portfolio responsibilities from the ruling Labour group, and the leader of the biggest opposition group (Conservative).[24]

Since February 2021, the Leader of the council has been James Lewis (Labour). He succeeded Judith Blake, the first woman ever to lead the council.[25][26]

Current council leadership
Portfolio Councillor (electoral ward) Term
Ceremonial leadership
The 131st Lord Mayor of Leeds (2025–2026)
First citizen of the City of Leeds 		width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Dan Cohen (Alwoodley)[27]
 2025–present
Vice-chair of the council (2025–2026) width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Barry Anderson (Adel and Wharfedale)[28] 2025–present
Executive leadership[29]
Leader of the Council
Leader of the Labour Group 		width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | James Lewis (Kippax and Methley)[30] 2021–present
Deputy Leader of the Council
Executive Member for Resources 		width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Debra Coupar (Temple Newsam)[31] 2018–present[32]
2021–present
Deputy Leader of the Council
Executive Member for Economy, Transport and Sustainable DevelopmentTemplate:Efn 		width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Jonathan Pryor (Headingley and Hyde Park)[33] 2021–present
Executive Member for Equality, Health and WellbeingTemplate:Efn width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Fiona Venner (Kirkstall)[34] 2019–present[35]
Executive Member for Communities, Customer Services and Community SafetyTemplate:Efn width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Mary Harland (Kippax and Methley)[36] 2021–present
Executive Member for Climate, Energy, Environment and Green SpaceTemplate:Efn width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Mohammed Rafique (Chapel Allerton)[37] 2017–present
Executive Member for Children and FamiliesTemplate:Efn width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Helen Hayden (Temple Newsam)[38]
 2021–present
Executive Member for Adult Social Care, Active Lifestyles and CultureTemplate:Efn width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Salma Arif (Gipton and Harehills)[39] 2021–present[40]
Executive Member for Housing width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Jessica Lennox (Cross Gates and Whinmoor)[41] 2023–present
Chief Whip of the Council width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Emma Flint (Weetwood)[42] 2023–present
Opposition leadership
Leader of the Opposition
Leader of the Conservative Group 		width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Alan Lamb (Wetherby)[43]
 2023–present
Leader of the Green Group width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Penny Stables (Wetherby)[44] 2024–present
Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Stewart Golton (Rothwell)[45] 2010–present[46]
Leader of the Morley Borough Independents Group width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Oliver Newton (Morley South)[47] 2024–present
Leader of the Garforth and Swillington Independents Group width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Mark Dobson (Garforth and Swillington)[48] 2017–present[49]
Leader of the SDP Group width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Wayne Dixon (Middleton Park)[50] 2023–present
Leader of the Reform UK Group width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | Trish Smith (Pudsey)[51] 2025–present

Leaders and political control since 1945

City of Leeds (County Borough) Council until 31 March 1974
Leader Years Political Control
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Unknown 1945–1947 style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1947–1949 style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1949–1951 style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1951–1952 style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1952–1967 style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Frank Marshall 1967–1972 style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Albert King 1972–1974 No Overall Control:
Labour minority administration
Leeds Metropolitan District Council from 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972
Leader Years Political Control
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Albert King 1974–1975 No Overall Control:
Labour minority,
then Conservative minority
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Irwin Bellow 1975–1976
1976–1979 style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Peter Sparling 1979–1980 No Overall Control:
Conservative minority
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | George Mudie 1980–1989 rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Jon Trickett 1989–1996
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Brian Walker 1996–2003
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Keith Wakefield 2003–2004
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Andrew Carter (Joint Leader) 2004–November 2007Template:Efn No Overall Control:
Liberal Democrat and Conservative coalition,
then Labour minority
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Mark Harris (Joint Leader)
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Andrew Carter (Joint Leader)
December 2007–2010Template:Efn
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Richard Brett (Joint Leader)
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Keith Wakefield 2010–2011
2011–2015 rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | Judith Blake 2015–2021
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | James Lewis 2021–present

Elected Mayor

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The question that was asked in the referendum was set by central government, and was:[52]

How would you like Leeds City Council to be run?
  • By a leader who is an elected councillor chosen by a vote of the other elected councillors. This is how the council is run now.
Or
  • By a mayor who is elected by voters. This would be a change from how the council is run now.

The proposal for an elected mayor was opposed by the leaders of the four largest groups on the council. It was supported by Leeds Conservative MPs Stuart Andrew (Pudsey) and Alec Shelbrooke (Elmet and Rothwell).

The referendum results showed a rejection of the proposal for a directly elected mayor, with 63% (107,910) voting to keep the status quo.[53]

Political composition

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One councillor for each ward – a third of all of the total councillors – is elected at every council election, which are held in three of every four years. Each councillor is also elected to serve a four-year term. This only differs following a boundary review, where all council seats must be re-elected. The most recent full council elections were in 1980, 2004 and 2018. The latter election saw all three ward council seats up for re-election, with each of the three successful candidates in each ward awarded a unique one, two or four-year term respectively with longer terms given to the candidates with the highest number of votes.[54]

Since the 2011 council election, the council has been run by a Labour majority administration. Between the 2004 and 2011 elections, the council's political composition meant no one party had a full majority and therefore there was no overall control. During this time, a coalition administration between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats was formally agreed. Throughout the coalition, both parties' Group Leaders jointly shared the office of Leader of the council, each holding it for six months in turn. However, in 2010, the Labour Group regained control as a minority administration with the support of the two Green Party councillors.[55][56][57]

Year style="background-color: Template:Party color; width: 3px;" | Labour style="background-color: Template:Party color; width: 3px;" | Liberal Democrats style="background-color: Template:Party color; width: 3px;" | Conservative Others
2024 61 6 15 17
2023 61 6 18 14
2022 58 7 21 13
2021 54 8 24 13
2019 57 8 23 11
2018 61 6 22 10
2016 63 9 19 8
2015 63 9 19 8
2014 63 9 18 9
2012 63 10 19 7
2011[58] 55 16 21 7
2010 48 21 22 8
2008[59] 43 24 22 10
2007[60] 43 24 22 10
2006[61] 40 26 24 9
2004 40 26 24 9
2003 52 22 20 5
2002 57 20 18 4
2000 61 19 16 3
1999 71 14 12 2
1998 80 9 9 1

Electoral wards

Leeds City Council's 33 electoral wards have been fully reviewed twice since 2000, once before the 2004 council election and again before the 2018 council election.

Beforehand, the ward boundaries had not been amended since the last review in 1979. The 1979 review increased the number of wards in Leeds from 32 to 33, thereby increasing the number of councillors from 96 to 99. The 1980 council election was the first to be contested based on the new ward boundaries across the city, and therefore it was a full council, all-out election where all of the 99 council seats were up for election.

The boundary review between February 2002 and July 2003 was completed by the Boundary Committee for England.[62] The review recommended the retention of 99 councillors representing 33 wards across the city, but suggested substantial alterations to ward boundaries to reduce the level of variance between different wards. Prior to the boundary review, based on the 2001 electorate, the largest and smallest wards respectively were Morley South (22,167 electors) and Hunslet (10,955 electors). Following the review all wards had an electorate within 10% of the average of all 33 wards across the city.[63]

A similar process was completed in November 2017 by the Boundary Committee's successor, the Local Government Boundary Commission for England. The process had held consultations since July 2016. The biggest ward boundary changes saw the creation of two new wards in Headingley & Hyde Park and Little London and Woodhouse from the previous Hyde Park & Woodhouse and Headingley wards. City & Hunslet also became Hunslet & Riverside.[64] Following the example of previous reviews, all of the city's councillors were re-elected together again based on the new ward boundaries in May 2018.

Parliamentary constituency Ward Councillor First elected Term of office
Leeds Central and Headingley Headingley and Hyde Park style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Tim Goodall (GPEW) 2024 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Abdul Hannan (Lab) 2023 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Jonathan Pryor (Lab) 2014Template:Efn 2022–2026
Kirkstall style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Hannah Bithell (Lab) 2018 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Andy Rontree (Lab) 2023 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Fiona Venner (Lab) 2014 2024–2028
Little London and Woodhouse style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Javaid Akhtar (Lab) 2000, 2010Template:Efn 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Kayleigh Brooks (Lab) 2018 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Abigail Marshall Katung

(Ind)Template:Efn

2019 2023–2027
Weetwood style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Emma Flint (Lab) 2021 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Jools Heselwood (Lab) 2015, 2023Template:Efn 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Izaak Wilson (Lab) 2022 2022–2026
Leeds East Cross Gates and Whinmoor style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| James Gibson (Lab) 2018, 2021Template:Efn 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Pauleen Grahame (Lab) 2002Template:Efn 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Jessica Lennox (Lab) 2018 2023–2027
Garforth and Swillington style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Mark Dobson (GSI) 2007 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Sarah Field (GSI) 2016 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Suzanne McCormack (GSI) 2018 2023–2027
Gipton and Harehills style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Asghar Ali (Lab) 2023 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Mothin Ali (GPEW) 2024 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Salma Arif (Lab) 2016 2022–2026
Killingbeck and Seacroft style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Katie Dye (Lab) 2018 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| David Jenkins (Lab) 2018 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| John Tudor (Lab) 2022 2022–2026
Temple Newsam
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 style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Debra Coupar (Lab) 2003, 2006, 2013Template:Efn 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Helen Hayden (Lab) 2015 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Nicole Lloyd (Lab) 2019 2023–2027
Leeds North East Alwoodley style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Lyn Buckley (Con) 2023 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Neil Buckley (Con) 2012 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Dan Cohen (Con) 2011 2022–2026
Chapel Allerton style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Jane Dowson (Lab) 2004 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Mohammed Rafique (Lab) 2004 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Eileen Taylor (Lab) 2008 2022–2026
Moortown style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Mahalia France-Mir (Lab) 2022 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Sharon Hamilton (Lab) 2004, 2010Template:Efn 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Mohammed Shahzad (Lab) 2018 2023–2027
Roundhay style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Jordan Bowden (Lab) 2022 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Zara Hussain (Lab) 2021 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Lisa Martin (Lab) 2021 2024–2028
Leeds North West Adel and Wharfedale style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Barry Anderson (Con) 1999Template:Efn 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Caroline Anderson (Con) 2015 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Billy Flynn (Con) 2016 2023–2027
Guiseley and Rawdon style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Oliver Edwards (Lab) 2023 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Sonia Leighton (Lab) 2024 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Eleanor Thomson (Lab) 2022 2022–2026
Horsforth style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Emmie Bromley (Lab) 2022 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| John Garvani (Lab) 2002, 2022Template:Efn 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Raymond Jones (Lab) 2023 2023–2027
Otley and Yeadon style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Colin Campbell (LD) 1982, 2004Template:Efn 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Ryk Downes (LD) 2004 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Sandy Lay (LD) 2012 2024–2028
Leeds South Beeston and Holbeck style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Shaf Ali (Lab) 2024 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Annie Maloney (Lab) 2022 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Andrew Scopes (Lab) 2018 2023–2027
Burmantofts and Richmond Hill style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Luke Farley (Lab) 2022 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Asghar Khan (Lab) 2011 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Nkele Manaka (Lab) 2023 2023–2027
Hunslet and Riverside style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Ed Carlisle (GPEW) 2022 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Mohammed Iqbal (Lab) 1999Template:Efn 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Paul Wray (Lab) 2018 2023–2027
Middleton Park style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Rob Chesterfield (SDP) 2024 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Wayne Dixon (SDP) 2022 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Emma Pogson-Golden (SDP) 2023 2023–2027
Leeds South West and Morley Ardsley and Robin Hood style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Karen Bruce (Lab) 2024 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Stephen Holroyd (Lab) 2023 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Karen Renshaw (Lab) 2004 2022–2026
Farnley and Wortley style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| David Blackburn (GPEW) 1998, 2024Template:Efn 2024–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Kate Haigh (Lab) 2024 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Adrian McCluskey (Lab) 2023 2023–2027
Morley North style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Simon Brown (MBI) 2018 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Robert Finnigan (MBI) 1995, 2002, 2019Template:Efn 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Bob Gettings (Ind)Template:Efn 2007 2022–2026
Morley South style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Oliver Newton (MBI) 2022 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Jane Senior (MBI) 2021 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Ryan Taylor (RUK) 2025 2025–2027
Leeds West and Pudsey Armley style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Lou Cunningham (GPEW) 2019, 2024 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Andy Parnham (Lab) 2023 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Alice Smart (Lab) 2014 2022–2026
Bramley and Stanningley style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Tom Hinchcliffe (Lab) 2023 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Adele Rae (Lab) 2024 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Kevin Ritchie (Lab) 2014 2022–2026
Calverley and Farsley style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Peter Carlill (Lab) 2018 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Andrew Carter (Con) 1973Template:Efn 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Craig Timmins (Lab) 2024 2024–2028
Pudsey style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Dawn Seary (Con) 2021 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Simon Seary (Con) 2018 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Trish Smith (RUK)Template:Efn 2019 2023–2027
Selby Kippax and Methley style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Mary Harland (Lab) 2012 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| James Lewis (Lab) 2003Template:Efn 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Michael Millar (Lab) 2023 2023–2027
Wakefield and Rothwell Rothwell style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Diane Chapman (LD) 2019 2023–2027
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Stewart Golton (LD) 1998Template:Efn 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Conrad Hart-Brooke (LD) 2021 2024–2028
Wetherby and Easingwold Harewood style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Sam Firth (Con) 2018 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Matthew Robinson (Con) 2010 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Ryan Stephenson (Con) 2016 2023–2027
Wetherby style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Norma Harrington (Con) 2018 2022–2026
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Alan Lamb (Con) 2007 2024–2028
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"| Penny Stables (GPEW) 2023 2023–2027

Premises

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Merrion House: Council's main offices.

The council meets at Leeds Civic Hall on Calverley Street, which was purpose-built for the city council and opened in 1933.[65] The council has numerous other buildings around the city, with its main offices being at Merrion House, which forms part of the Merrion Centre and was built in 1973.[66]

Controversy

In September 2012 the council announced its intention to introduce a bring your own device policy as part of cost saving measures.[67] In the same year, the council was fined £95,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after it sent confidential and sensitive information about a child in care to the wrong recipient. Commenting on Leeds and other authorities who had made similar data protection breaches, the ICO said "It would be far too easy to consider these breaches as simple human error. The reality is that they are caused by councils treating sensitive personal data in the same routine way they would deal with more general correspondence. Far too often in these cases, the councils do not appear to have acknowledged that the data they are handling is about real people, and often the more vulnerable members of society."[68]

Notes

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Citations

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  2. ↑ Diane Saunders & Philippa Lester (2014) From the Leylands to Leeds 17
  3. ↑ a b Leeds Civic Trust Template:Webarchive Leeds Coat of Arms
  4. ↑ Municipal Corporations Act 1835
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  15. ↑ Leeds Museums and Galleries – About us
  16. ↑ Rebecca Atkinson, "ACE Increases Number of Major Partner Museums", Museums Journal (1 July 2014).
  17. ↑ Chris Burn, "How army of people helped Leeds remember war that changed the world", Yorkshire Evening Post (31 January 2019).
  18. ↑ "The cultural history of the city is now at teachers' fingertips", Yorkshire Evening Post (18 June 2018).
  19. ↑ Leeds City Council, Recycling centres, accessed 4 September 2020
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  21. ↑ Leeds City Council, Community committees – have your say, accessed on 9 July 2024
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  53. ↑ Leeds votes no to elected mayor - Leeds City Council, 4 May 2012
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  57. ↑ John Baron, 'Labour and Greens reach Leeds council power agreement: Updated', The Guardian (17 May 2010)
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