§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list in the Official Report the various tax-free expenses paid to members of boards, committees, and tribunals for which his Department is responsible; and, assuming that the recipient is married with two dependent children and an income of £5,000, £10,000, £15,000 and £20,000 per annum, respectively, what these expenses would be worth if subject to income tax.
§ Dr. GilbertMembers of the bodies referred to who are not civil servants are entitled to be paid for their actual travelling expenses by public transport between home and the place of employment. If they choose to travel by private car they are entitled to be paid at the appropriate rate of mileage allowance for the journeys involved. They are entitled to the appropriate rate of subsistence allowance during absences from home on official58W business. Members who are civil servants may be paid any extra costs necessarily incurred over and above those they normally incur in their day to day business. As these payments are designed to reimburse expenditure incurred wholly, necessarily and exclusively in the course of official business there should be no net benefit to the income of those concerned.