[garinda]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

Ive been out today and got the accy observer and rossendale free press ...anyway i was reading the accy observer and there is a notice in it what the independent review body recommended and what the councillors have agreed. Its on page 19 if you are interested.

Review body:
Remove cap on carers allowance claims
New allowance for chair audit committee (£742)
Evening meal allowance of £15 in Lancashire and £20 elsewhere
Overnight accomodation allowance of up to £170 per night in London and £145 elsewhere
All other allowances to increase in line with inflation

The council has considered these recommendations and accepted some of them but not others the revisions to be made to the members allowance scheme from 1st april 2009 are as follows:

Remove cap on carers allowance claims
New allowance for chair Audit committee (£742)
Evening meal allowance of £25
Overnight accommodation of up to £170 per night in london and £145 per night elsewhere
All other allowances to increase in line with inflation


They've agreed with nearly all of the recommendations that the review body brought up ... except for the meal allowance - the review body says £15 in lancashire and £20 elsewhere - but the council have put it up to £25 no matter where they are.

That does seem odd.

Especially now we are told by Jaysay that his pal, Cllr. Britcliffe, actually only spent £12.30 on his meal whilst on his recent London trip.

I wonder how he can justify ignoring the independent body's recommendation that the upper limit should be £15, and £20 for London, when he's proved he can feed himself for much less, and without the need for a tourist guide he suggests someone should write?