§ Mr. McMasterTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what individual amounts are payable to(a) returning officers, (b) deputy returning officers, (c) presiding officers at polling stations, (d) polling clerks, (e) supervisors at election counts, (f) counting clerks and (g) other grades for their duties relating to both the regional council and European elections in 1994; if he will publish a table showing the amount paid or due to be paid in respect of each of these elections to each returning officer and deputy returning officer in Scotland; what costs returning officers and deputy returning officers are required to meet from these payments; and if he will make a statement.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonMy right hon. Friend has no locus with regard to the payments made to returning officers and their staffs at regional elections. Such payments are the responsibility of the authorities concerned.
With regard to the 1994 European parliamentary elections, the amounts payable to returning officers and their staffs are contained in The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 1994 (SI 1994/1379) which came into force on 1 June 1994. The 295W costs to be met by returning officers in running the elections are also set out in this order. Details of the information needed to calculate amounts payable to individual returning officers have not yet been forwarded to the Scottish Office Home and Health Department by the returning officers concerned.