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Debate on Tuesday, 20 July 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Strathclyde. The answering member was Baroness Royall of Blaisdon.

House of Lords: Allowances

Lords debate on motion that - 1.- (1) Members of this House, except any Member who receives a salary under the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 and the Chairman and Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees, should be entitled to an allowance in respect of each day of attendance on or after 1 October 2010. (2) "Attendance" means attendance- (a) at a sitting of this House or a Committee of this House, or (b) on such other Parliamentary business as may be determined by the House Committee. (3) The amount of the allowance payable to a Member in respect of a day of attendance should be- (a) £300, or (b) if paragraph (4) applies, £150. (4) This paragraph applies if- (a) the attendance in question is away from Westminster, or (b) the attendance is at Westminster but the Member elects that this paragraph should apply. 2.- (1) Accordingly, the following provisions should not apply in relation to expenses incurred on or after 1 October 2010- (a) paragraph (1)(d) of the Resolution of 22nd July 1980 (office costs allowance), (b) paragraph (1) of the Resolution of 25th July 1991 (day and night subsistence), and (c) paragraph 4 of the Resolution of 10th November 2004 (overnight subsistence on visits away from the House). (2) The limit on the expenses incurred from 1 August 2010 to 30 September 2010 which a Member of this House may recover under paragraph (1)(d) of the Resolution of 22nd July 1980 (office costs allowance) should be the amount obtained by multiplying- (a) the number of days in that period specified by the Member, subject to a maximum of 40 days, and (b) the appropriate amount for expenses incurred in that period (calculated in accordance with paragraph (3)(b) of the Resolution of 20th July 1994). Agreed to on question.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
720 c915-45 
Session
2010-12
Department
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
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House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 720 c918 (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Lord sits down, will he say what the position is with regard to travel by standard ...
Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 720 c918 (Link to this contribution) This is a quick question. Does the description, "““ceiling cost of a standard … open ticket””," app...
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Lord Strathclyde | 720 c918 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the standard open ticket is the price ceiling on which all claims will be judged. That ne...
Lord Strathclyde | 720 c915-6 (Link to this contribution) House of Lords Allowance That— 1.– (1) Members of this House, except any Member who receives a sal...
Lord Strathclyde | 720 c916-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on 28 June, I made a Statement in this House on the merits of a new proposal for the remun...
Lord Davies of Coity | 720 c924 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to ask a very simple—
Baroness Harris of Richmond | 720 c926-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it may be appropriate at this juncture to speak to the amendment in my name to which we wi...
Baroness D'Souza | 720 c921-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it has indeed been a long journey but we are very nearly there. The two resolutions tabled...
Lord Dholakia | 720 c922-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the House for its courtesy in allowing me to contribute on behalf of my colleagues...
Lord Wakeham | 720 c923-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the Motions. As noble Lords will be aware, I chaired the ad hoc group of Member...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 720 c918-21 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I strongly support the Government’s resolutions and the House Committee’s report. The Hous...
Lord Williamson of Horton | 720 c927-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was a member of the ad hoc group appointed to consider and consult on issues in the SSRB...
Lord Grenfell | 720 c930 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have a lot of sympathy for what the noble Lord, Lord Methuen, has said in his amendment,...
Lord Methuen | 720 c928-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think it may be appropriate that I speak to my amendment at this stage. In so doing, I d...
Lord Marlesford | 720 c932-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the proposals made by the House Committee and introduced by my noble friend the ...
Lord Sewel | 720 c930-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, a centrepiece of the proposals, which perhaps causes some of us great difficulty, is the a...
Lord Palmer | 720 c935-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I concur with what the noble Lord, Lord Sewel, said—especially with regards to committees ...
Lord Soley | 720 c933-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak not just on the matters before us today but also the way in which we address them. We ...
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 720 c936-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, was a member of the ad hoc committee under the chairmanship of the noble Lord, Lor...
Lord Shaw of Northstead | 720 c936 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I entirely agree with the proposals that have been put forward, but I have one query. Will...
Lord Tebbit | 720 c938 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have a good deal of sympathy for the amendment put forward by the noble Baroness, Lady H...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 720 c941 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the Leader of the House concludes today’s debate, I wonder whether the House might ...
Lord Graham of Edmonton | 720 c940-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the recommendations and fully recognise that colleagues on all sides of the Hous...
Lord Monson | 720 c939-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree with a great deal of the argument proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Tomlinson, alth...
Lord MacKenzie of Culkein | 720 c938-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the resolutions before us but have some sympathy with the amendment of the noble...
Lord Tebbit | 720 c945 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend, but are his sums on the assumption of an unchanged number o...
Lord Strathclyde | 720 c943-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been an interesting and lively debate in which many noble Lords have participated...
Lord Grenfell | 720 c941 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord says that this could become limitless, but I am not sure that that is really a fair a...
Lord Sewel | 720 c945 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. Has he any calculation of the effect of moving ...
Lord Strathclyde | 720 c945 (Link to this contribution) It is entirely typical of my noble friend to ask such an excellent question. My figures were, of cou...
Lord Strathclyde | 720 c945 (Link to this contribution) No, my Lords, because I do not know how many of those who claim the £160 amount would claim the £300...
Lord Tomlinson | 720 c924-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Statement of the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, on 28 June was in my opinion deficient ...
Lord Strathclyde | 720 c918 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the situation that the noble Lord, Lord Stoddart of Swindon, suggests will never arise.
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 720 c941-3 (Link to this contribution) If the noble Lord travels as a representative of the House of Lords, he would be able to claim an al...
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