Issue - meetings

To consider and make recommendations in respect of a Members’ Allowances Scheme in accordance with Regulation 21 of the Local Authorities (Members Allowances) (England) Regulations 2003 to take effect from 1 April 2022.

Following full consideration, the IRP were of the view that a Members’ Allowances Scheme for the four-year period 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26 should replicate the current Members’ Allowances Scheme for 2021/22 and that no revision to the current level of SRA payments within that Scheme was required, subject to the outcome of the recommended SRAs for the three roles set out in Minute 7 above.

As per the current arrangement, any uplift to the Scheme would be linked to the annual pay award for staff at Grade H.

RESOLVED:

That a Members Allowances Scheme for the years 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26 be prepared, whereby Basic Allowances and Special Responsibility Allowances payable to Members are adjusted from 1 April 2022 and thereafter annually, in line with the pay award (if any) for Senior Managers at grade H, taking into account any amendments to the Members’ Allowances Scheme 2020/21 agreed by the County Council following consideration of the recommendations of the IRP.