HC Deb 18 December 1957 vol 580 cc77-8W
Sir H. Channon

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he is aware of the financial hardship often caused to members of certain local

Renfrewshire, East Lothian, Perthshire, Inverness, and the cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Dundee in each of the last six years.

Mr. Maclay

The information is given in the following table.

authorities and valuation panels, etc., through the ruling that travelling and subsistence allowances are only payable to such people when engaged in duties which are more than three miles from their usual place of residence; and whether, in view of the frequent meetings and duties which take place at the present time, he will review the present position.

Mr. H. Brooke

This is a statutory limitation contained in Part VI of the Local Government Act, 1948. I have received a number of suggestions proposing the amendment of this Part of the Act. I am considering the matter