Council Composition

Our corporate governance structure consists of a leader, a cabinet and an overview and scrutiny function.

The full council, which sets the budget and Council Tax levels and approves the council’s policy framework, consists of 84 county councillors. Full council appoints the leader, who then appoints up to 10 councillors as cabinet members. The cabinet, chaired by the leader of the county council, implements policy and runs county services. Individual cabinet members have specific areas of responsibility and
make the bulk of the day-to-day decisions in these areas.

After the elections on 4 June 2009, the political composition of the County Council is as follows:

Conservative Party	51
Labour Party	16
Liberal Democrat Party	10
Independent	3
Green Party	2
Idle Toad	1
British National Party	1

District and parish councils

Lancashire has 12 district councils and over 200 parish and town councils.

The districts are:

• Burnley Borough Council;
• Chorley Borough Council;
• Fylde Borough Council;
• Hyndburn Borough Council;
• Lancaster City Council;
• Pendle Borough Council;
• Preston City Council;
• Ribble Valley Borough Council;
• Rossendale Borough Council;
• South Ribble Borough Council;
• West Lancashire District Council; and
• Wyre Borough Council.

Parliamentary seats

Lancashire has 13 members of parliament.

• Blackpool North and Fleetwood – Mrs Joan Humble MP
• Burnley – Mrs Kitty Ussher MP
• Chorley – Lindsay Hoyle MP
• Fylde – The Rt Hon Michael Jack MP
• Hyndburn – Greg Pope MP
• Lancaster and Wyre – Ben Wallace MP
• Morecambe and Lunesdale – Ms Geraldine Smith MP
• Pendle – Gordon Prentice MP
• Preston – Mark Hendrick MP
• Ribble Valley – Nigel Evans MP
• Rossendale and Darwen – Ms Janet Anderson MP
• South Ribble – David Borrow MP
• West Lancashire – Ms Rosie Cooper MP

Europe

Lancashire is in the European constituency of the north-west region, which returns nine members to the European Parliament.