WINDING-UP EXPENDITURE
10.6. Provision should be made under arrangements
approved by the Speaker for an allowance to be made in respect
of the expenses which, after a person has ceased to be a Member,
are still required to be incurred in connection with his or her
parliamentary duties. (13 July 1994)
10.7. The limit on that allowance should be four-thirds
of the amount which, for a quarter in the year in which that person
ceases to be a Member, is the limit for that Member on Administrative
and Office Expenditure and Staffing Expenditure at the time that
person ceases to be a Member. (13 July 1994; 5 July
2001)
10.8. The allowance should be paid to the person
who has ceased to be a Member or, if he or she has died, to his
or her personal representatives or a person nominated by him or
her or selected under the arrangements approved by the Speaker.
(13 July 1994)
10.9. Any limit determined in accordance with the
provisions set out at paragraphs 10.3 and 10.4 above should be
calculated to the nearest pound. (13 July 1994; 5 July
2001; MEC, 9 February 2004)
HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS' FUND
10.10. The amount of sums to be deducted or set aside
from the salaries of Members of the House of Commons under subsection
(3) of section one of the House of Commons Members' Fund Act 1939
should be £24 per annum. (17 May 1961)
10.11. There should be appropriated, from the sums
deducted from the salaries of Members under the House of Commons
Members' Fund Act 1939, one-tenth of these deductions in the current
year for the purposes of administering the provisions of the House
of Commons Members' Fund Act 1948, section 4. (18 May 1953)
17 On 3 July 2008, the House agreed that from the
end of the next Parliament the basis of the Resettlement Grant
should be shifted towards Members leaving the House in their early
fifties. See Third Report from the Members Estimate Committee,
2007-08, Review of Allowances, HC 578, paras 252-3. Back
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20 December 1971, 4 March 1980, 19 July 1983. Back