PART IV
DEFINITIONS APPLYING THROUGHOUT GREEN BOOK
"Additional home" means the home, not being
the Member's main home, in respect of which a Member is entitled
to claim PAAE. It must be in the UK.
"Advisory Panel on Members' Allowances"
means the Panel appointed by the Speaker to give advice to him
and the Members Estimate Committee on Members' allowances.
"Allowance year" means from 1 April until
31 March.
"Annual earnings index" means the annual
earnings index (whole economy excluding bonuses), for the twelve
months prior to 31 December.
"AOE" means the Administrative and Office
Expenditure allowance.
"Civil partner" means a person who is the
civil partner of a Member who together come within the definition
of "civil partnership" in the Civil Partnership Act
2004.
"Department" means the Department of Resources.
"Devolved legislature" means the Scottish
Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales or the Northern Ireland
Assembly.
"Finance and Services Committee" means
the Committee appointed under Standing Order No.144.
"HMRC" means Her Majesty's Revenue and
Customs.
"Inner London" means the constituencies
of Battersea, Bethnal Green & Bow, Camberwell & Peckham,
Cities of London & Westminster, Dulwich & West Norwood,
Eltham, Greenwich & Woolwich, Hackney North & Stoke Newington,
Hackney South & Shoreditch, Hammersmith & Fulham, Hampstead
& Highgate, Holborn & St Pancras, Islington North, Islington
South & Finsbury, Kensington & Chelsea, Lewisham Deptford,
Lewisham East, Lewisham West, North Southwark & Bermondsey,
Poplar & Canning Town, Putney, Regent's Park & Kensington
North, Streatham, Tooting, and Vauxhall.
"LCA" means the London Costs Allowance.
"London" means any place within 20 miles
of the Palace of Westminster.
"Main home" is the term used in the Green
Book for the term "only or main residence" as used in
the applicable Resolutions of the House and the relevant legal
provisions. It is for a Member to determine where his or her main
home is based on his or her circumstances. It must be in the UK.
"Members Estimate Committee" means the
Committee appointed under Standing Order No.152D to consider matters
relating to Members' pay and allowances. It has the same membership
as the House of Commons Commission.
"Newly elected" means elected for the first
time to the House of Commons or elected to the House after a period
of not being a Member which was longer than the period during
which Parliament was dissolved.
"PAAE" means the Personal Additional Accommodation
Expenditure allowance.
"Parliamentary duties" means duties a
Member may undertake properly to perform any of his or her functions
as a Member of Parliament including work in connection with parliamentary
proceedings or in a representational role. It includes obligations
Members have, for example as small employers or data controllers.
It does not include activities a Member carries out for party
political purposes or for personal reasons.
"Partner" means one of a couple, whether
of the same sex or of the opposite sex (the other being a Member)
who although not married to each other or civil partners are living
together and treat each other as spouses.
"Staff" means employees of a Member who
are paid out of the Member's Staffing Expenditure.
"Year" means "allowance year"
except where the context is clearly otherwise.
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