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Members’ Allowances and Expenses Paid 2020/21

Meeting: 01/06/2021 - Executive (Item 49)

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To consider the report of the Corporate Manager Democratic & Civic Support.

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

Agreed:

 

RESOLVED that Executive Committee note the allowances paid and the expenses claimed by Members in 2020/21 and the correction that the remuneration for the Chair of the newly formed Harbour Board will be £1567.

 

Reason for Decision: As set out in the report.

 

 

Minutes:

The Executive received the report on allowances paid to elected Members in 2020/21, which, the Council had a statutory obligation to publish each financial year.

 

Particular reference was made to:-

 

·        there being a lower level of cost for travel and external training expenses, during 2020/21, because of the COVID Pandemic;

·        the Chair of the newly formed Harbour Board was also a Portfolio Holder, and would not, therefore, attract an additional Special Responsibility Allowance;

·        the payment for the newly formed Council Housing and Development Advisory Board, would be drawn separately from the Housing Revenue Account; and

·        an administrative error had been made in in the report presented to the Executive and Council in December 2020 for the Chair of the Harbour Board. The allowance should have been shown as £1,567.

RESOLVED that Executive Committee note the allowances paid and the expenses claimed by Members in 2020/21 and the correction that the remuneration for the Chair of the newly formed Harbour Board will be £1,567.