Not Woodworking But An Interesting Read Nevertheless
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Cheshirechappie
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A measure intended to save the public purse £80,000 a year, give or take.
Lords (with a few exceptions) are not salaried, but they do receive an attendance allowance of between £150 and £300 a day. There are over 800 of them, though not all attend all the time. If they all attended for one day a year less, then at the minimum allowance, the taxpayer would save £120,000.
I suspect there's some politics being played somewhere in all this; there usually is with these things.
Lords (with a few exceptions) are not salaried, but they do receive an attendance allowance of between £150 and £300 a day. There are over 800 of them, though not all attend all the time. If they all attended for one day a year less, then at the minimum allowance, the taxpayer would save £120,000.
I suspect there's some politics being played somewhere in all this; there usually is with these things.
Resume builder decision. Nothing material. That's too bad, but sooner or later someone will boast about how they saved that amount of money while quietly contributing to 50 million pounds of spending somewhere else.
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