Sentence examples for members allowances from inspiring English sources
Of this year's total, £20.7m was spent on members' allowances and expenses.
Brown and Harriet Harman, the Labour chair, have requested the committee on members' allowances lead an independent investigation of all expenses claims in the last four years.
For the last three months another Labour MP, Don Touhig, has been chairing the members' allowances committee which reports to Martin and the Commons.
Nor is it just members' allowances that Mr McLean would exempt from disclosure: all parliamentary correspondence with officialdom would be kept secret.Not all lawmakers are in favour of the proposal.
They will take their lead from an audit of MPs' expenses going back four years which is expected to be set up by the committee on members' allowances this evening.
The key committees in terms of expenses are the members' estimates committee and the members' allowances committee, to which MPs can appeal if they feel their expenses have been unfairly rejected.
L. 104 186, § 203(22)(B vi), substituted "Members' Representational Allowance" for "Official Expenses Allowance and the Clerk Hire Allowance".
L. 104 186, § 203(22)(B vii), substituted "Members' Representational Allowance" for "Official Expenses Allowance".
"(3)(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), each Member of the House of Representatives may transfer amounts from the Members' Representational Allowance of the Member to the Official Mail Allowance of the Member.
Lawmakers are given office budgets – known as member representational allowances –that vary based on local costs in their district and other factors.
In most cases, Bernabei said, the settlements came directly out of the lawmaker's office budget, known officially as the Members' Representational Allowance (MRA).
