ANNEX
2: LIST OF
CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
REQUIRED TO
EXISTING RESOLUTIONS
GOVERNING ALLOWANCES
Note: References to "Concordance" are
to the Concordance of Resolutions, published as HC 950-II and
ordered to be printed on 27 February 2006.
GENERAL
The principles are new.
The titles of all allowances change.
The new Green Book includes work with All-party Parliamentary
Groups among parliamentary duties (though it specifically forbids
Members from using Staffing Expenditure for persons employed wholly
or substantially to work for All-party Parliamentary Groups or
using Travel Expenditure for travel with All-party Groups).
Civil partners to be included in all references to
spouses.
References to be standardised to "main home",
not "main residence" or "ordinary residence"
etc.
References to "Department of Finance and Administration"
to become "Department of Resources"; to "Inland
Revenue" to become "HM Revenue and Customs".
There should be a general provision that expenditure
for which reimbursement is claimed under the provisions of the
Green Book should be wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred
for the performance of a Member's parliamentary duties (to clarify
that it is deductible from income for tax purposes). This does
not apply to Winding-up Allowance on dissolution or to PAAE to
which are excluded from tax under sections 291 and 292 of the
Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003.
PAAE/ACA
Concordance para 3.1: London area to become any place
within 20 miles of Westminster, not just Inner London.
New limit of 10% of PAAE for furnishings to be introduced.
New flat rate subsistence allowance of £25 per
night away from main home on parliamentary business to be introduced.
Provision in 3 July 2008 Resolution that "any
allowance for overnight costs arising from Parliamentary duties
in London may not be used for accommodation expenses in respect
of a residence designated by an hon Member as his main residence
for tax purposes" not included in new Green Book.
LONDON SUPPLEMENT/LONDON COSTS ALLOWANCE
Concordance para 4.1 (b) no longer to apply.
Concordance para 4.3 to be altered so that any Member
can claim LCA instead of PAAE.
IEP/AOE
New Green Book provisions are more specific than
the general provision of the Resolution set out in the Concordance.
STAFFING ALLOWANCE/STAFFING EXPENDITURE
Concordance para 6.2—the new Green Book provides
that the Advisory Panel on Members' Allowances are now to approve
job descriptions and standard contracts.
Concordance para 6.4—"temporary secretarial
or research assistance" to be renamed "temporary staffing
expenditure" and to be available in a wider range of circumstances
(eg maternity leave).
TRAVEL ENTITLEMENTS/TRAVEL EXPENDITURE
Concordance paras 7.3—new Green Book makes
no mention of higher and lower mileage rates.
Concordance para 7.4—new Green Book has no
reference to scooters.
Concordance para 7.6—new Green Book refers
to "reasonable" parking; the "wholly, necessarily
and exclusively" reference is omitted.
Concordance para 7.8—new country limits are
member states of the Council of Europe, and some of the detail
is omitted.
Concordance para 7.10—the new Green Book amends
12 return journeys to become 24 single journeys.
Concordance para 7.11—the new Green Book amends
15 return journeys to become 30 single journeys.
Concordance para 7.14—the new Green Book includes
provision for older disabled children.
Cost of overnight accommodation where a journey has
had to be broken due to unforeseen circumstances to be claimable
as Travel Expenditure.
COMMUNICATIONS ALLOWANCE
The MEC report (HC 578-I) of June 2008 proposed a
number of rules that the House agreed should come into force from
1 April 2009. The new Green Book does not include the words "data
from local surveys must not be transferred to national campaigns
or used for local party campaigning" because this would not
be permissible under the Part I principles.
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