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MEMBERS' ALLOWANCES 2019 - 2020

South Bucks District Council has adopted a scheme of members' allowances for the period 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020. In making the Scheme it has complied with the duty to have regard to the recommendations of an Independent Remuneration Panel and applied the pay settlement for council staff provision in paragraph 7 of the scheme to increase the 2018/19 allowances by 2%.

The main features of the scheme are:

_Allowance_

Basic Allowance_

Chairman of the Council_

Vice-Chairman of the Council

Leader_

Deputy Leader_

Cabinet Members (4)_

Chairmen of Overview and

Scrutiny Committee_

Chairman of Planning Committee Vice-Chairman of Planning

Committee_

Chairman of Licensing Committee Chairman of Audit & Standards

Committee_

Chairman of Governance &

Electoral Arrangements Committee

Miscellaneous:-

Ordinary members of Planning

Committee (8)_

Party Group Leader/Secretary

2 Members_

Childcare Allowance

Amount

£4,896

~£3,917 £1,616 £14,198 £7,099 £6,365 £3,917

~£3,917 £979

~£2,448 £2,448

£734

£734

£832

National


Living Wage -(£8.21 per hour as of 1

__April 2019)

Dependent Carer Allowance £17 per



_\_I hour I

hour

Mileage rates unchanged as per HMRC rates (45p per mile) and subsistence rates unchanged.

Copies of the scheme of allowances and the Independent Remuneration Panel's report detailing its recommendations together with a record of allowances paid to Members are available for inspection at Capswood, Oxford Road, Denham, UB9 4LH during office hours and on the Council's website (www.southbucks.gov.uk).

Jim Burness Director of Resources 29 March 2019