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The
Council (26 voting in favour,
6 voting against, 0 abstaining from voting):
 

a.   
Approved a revised Scheme of Members Allowances for
2024-25 (see Appendix B to the report), including:
 

             
i.   
an increase in the Basic Allowance to £6,090
(equivalent to a 5% increase) back dated to 1 April
2024.
 

            
ii.   
an increase in all the Special Responsibility
Allowances of 4.25%, back dated to 1 April 2024.

b.   
Authorised the Head of Transformation and People to
implement and advertise the new scheme and make any consequential
amendments required to the Scheme of Members Allowances in Part 6
of the Constitution.
 

c.    
Agreed to the Panel conducting a wide-ranging
overhaul of the Members Allowance Scheme during 2025-26
to:
 

             
i.   
re-set “baseline” figures to a level
more in line with those of local authorities comparable with South
Cambridgeshire District Council.
 

            
ii.   
establish a programme of such a review every four
years with an automatic uplift in intervening years in line with
the average annual pay award for officers.
 

           
iii.   
move to a position where increases are made in
advance rather than, as at present, retrospectively.