HC Deb 18 December 1964 vol 704 cc819-20

Resolved,

That, in the opinion of this House, it is expedient that provision should be made as from 16th October 1964 (in lieu of the provision made by the Resolution of this House of 9th July 1957)—

  1. (a) for the payment to Members of this House of the following salary, that is to say—
    1. (i) in the case of all Members other than those described in sub-paragraph (ii) below, a salary at the rate of £3,250 a year;
    2. (ii) in the case of Members who are officers of this House and Members for the time being in receipt of a salary as holders of Ministerial office within the meaning of section 2 of the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1957 (as amended by or under any enactment including any enactment passed after the date hereof) or of any other salary or any pension payable under the Ministers of the Crown Act 1937 (as so amended), a salary at the rate of £1,250 a year,
    820 subject, in each case, to the deduction from any payment made before the commencement of any Act of the present Session making provision for a contributory pensions scheme for Members of this House (or, in the case of salary not drawn, to the setting aside out of moneys available for making any such payment) of sums at the rate of £150 a year to be applied as directed by that Act;
  2. (b) for enabling members of the House of Lords (except the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chairman of Committees and any Member in receipt of a salary as the holder of a Ministerial office within the meaning of section 2 of the said Act of 1957 or of a salary payable out of moneys provided by Parliament under the Ministerial Salaries Act 1946 or payable to him as Leader or Chief Whip of the Opposition in that House by virtue of any provision in that behalf of an Act of the present Session) to recover out of sums voted for the expenses of that House (in addition to the costs of travel for which provision is made pursuant to any Resolution of this House) any expenses certified by them as incurred for either of the following purposes—
    1. (i) in the case of all such Members, attendance at sittings of that House or of Committees of that House, other than sittings for judicial business; and
    2. (ii) in the case of Members who are Lords of Appeal within the meaning of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 but are not Lords of Appeal in Ordinary or holders of high judicial office within the meaning of that Act, attendance at sittings of that House or of Committees of that House, being sittings for judicial business, and at sittings of Lords of Appeal under section 9 of that Act;
    within a maximum of £4 14s. 6d. for each day of such attendance;
and that the limit on the amount of the allowances which under the Resolution of this House of 18th May 1961 are payable to Members of this House or are recoverable by Members of the House of Lords in respect of the cost of travel by road should be 4½d. a mile for journeys commenced after the date of this Resolution instead of the amount of the fare by rail. —[Mr. Bowden.]