Issue - decisions

Members' Allowances Scheme

01/08/2008 - Members' Allowances Scheme

Consideration was given to a report from the Governance and Constitution Committee following its deliberation on the recommendations of the County Council’s Independent Remuneration Panel about the Members’ Allowances Scheme for the Shadow period. The Committee had made the following recommendations:-

 

  1. “A proportion of the County Council’s Basic and Special Responsibility Allowances being applied to the Shadow Council in the following sums:

 

 

 

£ (per annum)

Basic Allowance

£4,800

Council Chairman

£4,000

Vice Chairman

£1.500

Council Leader

£15.000

Deputy Leader

£10,000

Cabinet Member

£7,500

Committees (excluding Joint Liaison Committee)

 

Chair

£4,000

Vice Chair

£1,500

Spokesperson

No SRA to apply at present but it be noted that this role will develop with time

Panels (Cabinet Advisory and other Panels)

 

Chair

£2,000

Vice Chair

£1,000

Spokesperson

No SRA to apply at present but it be noted that this role will develop with time

Opposition Group Leaders

£4,000

Deputy Leaders

Nil

Administration Group Whip

£3,000

Deputy Administration Group Whip

£1,500

Opposition Group Whip

£1,500

Opposition Group Deputy Whip

Nil

 

 

  1. The number of Special Responsibility Allowances which may be claimed by any individual Member of the Shadow Council be limited to one.

 

  1. Travelling and Subsistence Reimbursement Allowances and Dependents’ Carers’ Allowances be paid in accordance with the County Council’s arrangements at the rates and in respect of the duties as indicated in the Scheme.

 

  1. The County Council’s Nominated Member Duties allowances provisions should form part of the Shadow Council’s Allowances Scheme, so as to enable the Chairman and Vice Chairman, Party Group Leaders and Deputy Leaders and Party Group Whips to claim travel and subsistence allowances for attendance, as required, at the Headquarters buildings of Cheshire County Council, Macclesfield Borough Council, Congleton Borough Council and Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council.

 

  1. Payment of all of the above allowances be applied retrospectively as appropriate from May 2008.”

 

RESOLVED

  1. to receive the report and recommendations of the Independent Remuneration Panel and to adopt the Governance and Constitution Committee’s recommendations concerning the appropriate rates and application of allowances for payment from 2 May 2008; and
  1. to thank the Independent Remuneration Panel Members formally for their work