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Ministers and MPs, and the Peers' expenses allowance: Part I

Recommendations from the Review Body on Top Salaries (TSRB) on pay, expenses and allowances for Ministers of the Crown, Members of Parliament and Peers.

From:
Senior Salaries Review Body and Office for the Pay Review Bodies
Published
21 June 1979

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Ministers of the Crown and Members of Parliament and the Peers' expenses allowance: Part I

Ref: ISBN 0101759800, Report no. 12, Cmnd. 7598

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The TSRB was asked on 23 October 1978 by the Prime Minister to review and make recommendations on:

  1. the level of salary of Members of the House of Commons, including the question of a salary linkage;
  2. the arrangements for severance pay for Members of the House of Commons;
  3. the scope and level of the Members’ secretarial allowance, with reference to the question of providing severance pay and pensions for secretaries;
  4. the levels of salary of Ministers and other office holders;
  5. the pension position of former Members of the House of Commons who left the House before 2 August 1978;
  6. the rates of the Peers’ expenses allowance;
  7. the scope for and level of an allowance towards the cost of running constituency “surgeries”, and
  8. the scope for and level of an allowance for travelling and subsistence for Peers’ and Members of the House of Commons’ spouses to attend official functions.

This Report sets out Part I of the TSRB’s analysis and recommendations - covering the salary of MPs, salary linkage, the level of Ministerial and other office holders’ salaries, the Peers’ expenses allowance, and the maximum of the MPs’ secretarial allowance. A separate future Report will address the secretarial allowance and other outstanding matters, including pension arrangements.

The Government’s response is here: Members Of Parliament And Ministers (Pay) - Hansard - UK Parliament

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Published 21 June 1979

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