Independent report

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

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: 14 February 1980

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

Ref: ISBN 0101782500, Report no. 13, Cmnd. 7825

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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.

Part I of the TSRB’s analysis and recommendations - published on 21 June 1979 - covered 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. This can be found here: Ministers and MPs, and the Peers’ expenses allowance: Part I - GOV.UK

This Report sets out Part II of the TSRB’s analysis and recommendations - covering the secretarial allowance and other outstanding matters, including pension arrangements. This Report also covers :

1. the question of a support allowance for Ministers and other office holders in the House of Lords analogous to the secretarial and other allowances paid in the House of Commons;
2. salary linkage, by considering further the possibility of relating the salary of a Member to one or more analogues in the professional field.

The Government’s response is here: Members’ Pay And Allowances - Hansard - UK Parliament

Published 14 February 1980