Issue - meetings

To consider and approve the recommendations of the Independent Remuneration Panel for 2023/24 (Member Allowances).

To consider and approve the recommendations of the Independent Remuneration Panel for 2023/24 (Member Allowances).

Independent Remuneration Panel Recommendations for 2023/24

The recommendations at page 916 of the agenda pack (page 14937 of the Minute Book) were moved and seconded.

A vote was taken and the motion was declared carried with 84 for, 1 against and 2 abstentions.

Resolved –

That the following be approved:

a.    A Basic Allowance for 2023/24 of £15,500

b.    Special Responsibility Allowances as detailed in Appendix 3

c.     That Councillors are invited to voluntarily return a proportion of their allowance if their attendance falls below a benchmark of 66%, except where there are mitigating circumstances such as illness, in line with the existing scheme for Councillors

d.    That, if there are any increases in the travel and subsistence rates payable to staff, a similar increase be made to the rates in the Members’ Allowances Scheme, to come into effect at the same time.