Purpose

The Assembly will be asked to approve the
Members’ Allowances Scheme for the 2024/25 municipal year.

Content

The Assembly will be asked to approve the
Members’ Allowances Scheme for the 2024/25 municipal year.

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.