Chapter 2: Other Provision Combined authorities Section 70: Payment of allowances to committee members Background
Schedule 5A to the 2009 Act makes provisions about overview and scrutiny committees and audit committees of a combined authority. It enables orders to make provisions about the payment of allowances to members. This section makes amendments to these provisions and similar amendments to provisions in Schedule 5C to the 2009 Act in relation to police and crime panel for a combined authority whose mayor has been conferred the role of a police and crime commissioner.
	The orders establishing combined authorities provide for remuneration for members of combined authorities. At present combined authorities may make provision for:
Combined authorities to be able to pay members a travel and subsistence allowance.
Combined authorities to be able to pay mayors and deputy mayors allowances on the recommendation of an independent remuneration panel.
Combined authorities to be able to pay members representing councils travel and subsistence allowance only with the local authorities being able to provide separately a special responsibility allowance.
Combined authorities are required to establish at least one overview and scrutiny committee as well as an audit committee. Combined authorities cannot make provision for the payment of allowances to local authority members who are members of these panels.