Issue - meetings

Review of Member Allowances

 

 

Meeting: 20/05/2026 - Council (Item 61)

61 Independent Remuneration Panel Review of Councillors' Allowances pdf icon PDF 527 KB

Council is asked to:

1.    Note the report and recommendations of the Independent Remuneration Panel (IRP) report dated March 2026;

2.    Approve the continuation of Special Responsibility Allowances for the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Audit Committee at 40% and 20% respectively of the Leader’s allowance, with no requirement for backdating;

3.    Approve the application of indexation to the Basic and Special Responsibility Allowances for 2026/27 in line with the 4% staff salary increase agreed by the Council, applying from 1 April 2026 for one year.

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Minutes:

Members advised that they did not want to accept an increase in their allowances and wanted the money to go to charities throughout the Borough to benefit the residents of Spelthorne.

 

For

0 votes

Against

Councillors Dunn, Gibson, Attewell, Barker, Bateson, Beatty, Beecher, Bhadye, Bing Dong, Boparai, Boughtflower, Brennan, Buck, Burrell, Button, Caplin, Clarke, J Doran, S Doran, Grant, Gyawali, Howkins, Islam, Lee, Mathur, Mooney, Neall, Nichols, Rutherford, Sexton, Turner, Williams – 32 votes

Abstain

0 votes

 

 

Council resolved to:

 

1.    Note the report and recommendations of the Independent Remuneration Panel report dated March 2026,

 

2.    To not approve the continuation of Special Responsibility Allowances for the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Audit Committee at 40% and 20% respectively of the Leader’s Allowance, with no requirement for backdating; and

 

3.    To not approve the application of indexation to the Basic and Special Responsibility Allowances for 2026/27 in line with the 4% staff salary increase agreed by the Council, applying from 01 April 2026 for one year set out in Appendix B.

 

 

Council requested that a report be brought back to Council in July with options for them to consider on how best to utilise the funds in the Council’s budget originally set aside for the increase in members’ allowances.