Report received from the Parish Remuneration Panel

Lawford Parish Council has received recommendations from a Parish Remuneration Panel in respect of allowances.  This will be made available to you if you would like to see it.

The basic recommendations are as follows:

• Each Parish should consider whether to adopt or amend its existing scheme of allowances and make a determination according to its own needs / wishes within the maximum Parish Basic Allowance (and enhanced Chairman's Allowance) set out.
• The prevailing HMRC non-profit rates should be the maximum travel rates for Parish Council purposes (for those Parish Councils with a Scheme for Allowances).
• For subsistence allowances, the payment should be on the basis of reimbursement of actual costs incurred on production of receipts, subject to the prevailing HMRC subsistence rates (and qualifying conditions) for those Parish Councils with a Scheme for Allowances.
• That (for those Parish Councils with a Scheme for Allowances) the maximum recommended Parish Basic Allowance (and enhanced Chairman's Allowance) be the same as the index linked to the Office of National Statistics estimated public sector regular average weekly earnings growth rate (before tax and after deductions from pay) each December and applied to the scheme from the following April.

The above recommendations will be discussed at the Full Council meeting scheduled for Monday 20th February 2023 at 6.30pm in the Small Hall at Ogilvie Hall, Wignall Street, Lawford CO11 2JG