Kay Cutts


Katherine Lilian Cutts is an English Conservative county councillor, and the Leader since May 2017 of Nottinghamshire County Council.

Career

Cutts sat on Rushcliffe Borough Council.
She was first elected to the county council on 4 May 1989, representing the ward of Radcliffe-on-Trent. The county council then also included Nottingham, with the council having 50 Labour and 34 Conservative councillors. She became Leader of the Conservative Group on the county council in October 2000.
The Conservatives gained control of the council in the 2009 election.
In the 2014 New Year Honours, she received the MBE.