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What are councillors entitled to claim in allowances (expenses)?
Councillors receive a basic allowance to cover their work as councillors. The basic allowance at Fylde is currently £3151.81p and the national average is £6,099. Councillors who take on an additional role within the council...
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What can councillors claim as expenses on top of the allowance they get paid?
Expenses are only paid to cover expenses incurred on official business including travel, subsistence and occasional overnight accommodation. Details of what can be claimed are published. Elected members at Fylde are entitled to claim for ...
What is the average workload of councillors? How many hours do they work a week?
No-one becomes a councillor to make money. Councillors work long and often anti-social hours on council business. At Fylde almost all meetings are held in the evening and with the advent of email and online access Councillors are avail...
What scrutiny of elected member allowances and expenses is there in local authorities?
Councils are required to set up an independent panel of at least three people who are not members of the council to review their scheme of allowances and make recommendation's. This is the independent panel that determines the level of allow...
What variation in payment is there between councillors in different roles such as cabinet members or back benchers?
Cabinet and executive members, who have full-time responsibilities for multi-million pound budgets, are paid special responsibility allowances. The average annual special responsibility allowance for a cabinet or executive member is £9,710...
Who decides how and what allowances are set?
The Local Authorities (Members' Allowances)(England) Regulation's 2003 set the legal framework for all local authority members’ allowances. Within those regulations, councils decide their own scheme of allowances locally. At Fylde ...
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