Issue - meetings

The Director of Legal and Democratic Services introduced a report, which had been circulated advance of the meeting, seeking approval to set the level of remuneration for the Independent Remuneration Panel going forward.

Councillor B Lewis, when moving the motion, which was duly seconded, proposed that the payments should be index linked in the same way as Members’ Allowance payments. It was therefore

RESOLVED to:

1)   Approve that Independent Remuneration Panel members are paid a fixed-fee of £600 per annum and that the payment is uplifted annually by any increase in the pay award due to employees covered by the NJC Pay Rates as of 1April each year;

2)   Approve that the Chair of the IRP is paid an additional chair’s allowance of £250 per annum and that the payment is uplifted annually by any increase in the pay award due to employees covered by the NJC Pay Rates as of 1st April each year; and

3)   Approve that the allowances payable to the Independent Remuneration Panel are paid in 12 monthly instalments from 1 April 2022.