Issue - meetings

The Chief Executive presented a report on the proposed Members’ Allowances Scheme for 2024/25, which included the Basic Allowance payable to all councillors and Special Responsibility Allowances (SRAs) for those councillors appointed to specific positions.

It was noted that in approving the Members’ Allowances Scheme for 2023/24 (Minute 13, 17 May 2023), the Assembly also agreed that the previous year’s percentage increase to allowances as part of the Local Government Services Pay Agreement should be applied to future years’ Members’ Allowances Schemes, as a way of ensuring that councillors’ remuneration kept in line with increases received by staff, albeit a year in arrears.  It was further agreed at that meeting that the Dependants’ Carers’ Allowance be increased in line with the effective date of any uplift to the London Living Wage (LLW).  The Chief Executive confirmed that the proposed changes to the Members’ Allowances Scheme for 2024/25 merely reflected those previous decisions.

The Assembly resolved to adopt the Members’ Allowances Scheme 2024/25 at Appendix A to the report, to be effective from 16 May 2024.