Under the Local Authorities (Members Allowances) (England) Regulations 2003 the Council is required to make a scheme which shall provide for the payment of an allowance in respect of each year to each Member of the Authority.
The Council has made a scheme known as the London Borough of Bromley Members Allowances Scheme. The scheme shall operate from 1st April 2008 until amended.
The main features of the scheme are as follows:-
Annual Allowance
All Members receive a basic annual allowance of £10,358.44, subject to an inflation increase from 15th May 2008 calculated in accordance with the Note beneath the table below:-
Special Responsibility Allowances for the year ending 31st March 2009
Posts of Special Responsibility Allowance
Allowances payable with effect from 1st April 2008
£
Leader of the council
Portfolio Holders (x6)
Executive Assistants (x5)
Executive Members without Portfolio (x2)
Chairman of Portfolio PDS Committees (x6)
Chairman of Development Control Committee
Vice-Chairman of Development Control Committee
Chairman of Plans Sub-committees (x4)
Chairman of General Purposes and Licensing Committee
Vice-Chairman of General Purposes and Licensing Committee
Chairman of Standards Committee
Leader of Main Opposition Party
Leader of Minority Opposition Party
Quasi_Judicial Allowances
Members of two Plans Sub-Committees
Members of one Plans Sub-Committee
Members of Adoption Panel
Members of Licensing Sub-Committee
Note: All allowances are to be increased with effect from 15th May 2008 by the same percentage as the 2008 market movement change for officers under the PE Inbucon scheme and annually thereafter until 2011/12.
The scheme also allows Councillors to claim reimbursement of travel and subsistence expenses, for travel outside the Borough on approved duties only, under the same rules and entitlements applied to officers.
Under Regulation 16 of those Regulations, the Council in agreeing this Scheme considered the recommendations of the Independent Panel commissioned by the Association of London Government (now known as London Councils) on the remuneration of Councillors in London entitled "The Remuneration of Councillors in London 2006 Review" published in December 2006. The Independent Panel recommended a basic allowance of £9,964 for all Councillors in 2007/08, plus Special Responsibility Allowances for posts with special responsibilities. For these allowances, the Panel recommended that posts should be grouped within various bands and it specified ranges of Special Responsibility Allowances for each band. It recommended that authorities should determine their Special Responsibility Allowances within those ranges, depending on the levels of responsibility and workload for each post. The Council previously commissioned a supplementary review by Mr Rodney Brooke, a member of the Independent Panel, for this purpose. In his report entitled "Members' Allowances" dated December 2003, Mr Brooke recommended that the following Special Responsibility Allowances should be payable with effect from 1st April 2004, but the Council decided to fix allowances at a lower level. As the only changes in the scheme adopted for 2008/09 are increases linked to an inflation index, no further independent report has been commissioned.
£
Leader of the council
Portfolio Holder for children and Young People
Portfolio Holder for Social Care, Health and Housing
Portfolio Holder for the Environment
Other Portfolio Holders (x3)
Executive Assistant for Children and Young People
Other Executive Assistants (x6)
Executive Members without Portfolio
Chairman of Strategy and Resources PDS Committee
Vice-Chairman of Strategy and Resources PDS Committee
Chairman of Children and Young People PDS Committee
Chairman of Social Care, Health and Housing PDS Committee
Chairman of Environment PDS Committee
Chairman of Other PDS Committees (x3)
Chairman of Development Control Committee
Vice-Chairman of Development Control Committee
Chairman of Plans Sub-Committees (x4)
Chairman of General Purposes Committee
Vice-Chairman of General Purposes Committee
Chairman of Standards Committee
Leader of Main Opposition Party
Leader of Minority Opposition Party
Quasi-judicial Allowances
Members of two Plans Sub-Committees
Members of one Plans Sub-Committee
Members of Adoption Panel
Members of Licensing Sub-Committee
The scheme's provisions relating to travel and subsistence are in line with the recommendations of the Independent Panel.
Copies of the scheme and copies of a record of payments kept in accordance with Regulation 15(1) and (2) are available for inspection between 8.45am and 5pm Mon-Fri at Bromley Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Bromley, BR1 3UH.
MARK BOWEN
Director of Legal, Democratic and Customer Services
London Borough of Bromley
Stockwell Close
Bromley BR1 3UH
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