HOUSE OF COMMONS SALARIES
INCREASE TO £I,OOO RECOMMENDED (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. Mar. 18. The salaries of Commoners should b® increased to £I,OOO a year, of which £SOO should be allowed to all member* as an expense allowance free from income tax, states a report by the Select Committee on members’ expenses. published as a White Paper. The committee also recommends that Ministers with salaries under £5.000, and the chairman and deputy-chair-man of the Ways and Means Committee should be granted an expense allowance of £SOO free of income tax. as in the case of members of the House in addition to their present salaries. Commoners at present are paid a salary of £6OO a year, of which £IOO is tax free as expenses.
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Evening Star, Issue 25745, 19 March 1946, Page 6
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124HOUSE OF COMMONS SALARIES Evening Star, Issue 25745, 19 March 1946, Page 6
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