Public Duty Costs Allowance
(asked on 24th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 21 November (HL Deb col 1170) concerning the Public Duty Costs Allowance (PDCA), and the statement that the “Government keep these matters under review and that the level of the limit is reviewed by the Prime Minister, at the start of a Parliament and annually”, what have been the total sums paid to each recipient of the PDCA in each of the years for which they have been able to claim; and what have been the total costs of the scheme to date.
The Government does not hold a full record of claims against the Public Duty Costs Allowance (PDCA) going back to 1991 when the allowance was established. The table above provides information from 2009/10 collated from government data.
From the financial year 2013/14, the annual amount of PDCA claimed by each former Prime Minister has been included in the Cabinet Office Annual Reports and Accounts which is published on GOV.UK. The years that have been published in this way are highlighted in Table 1. Prior to 2013, in line with the approach taken on Parliament’s Office Costs Allowance, to which the PDCA was linked, details of claims made by former Prime Ministers were not published.
I would also refer the noble Lord to a written answer provided on 6 April 2010 by the late Baroness Jowell, then Minister for the Cabinet Office (reference 311222) which provides details of total annual claims made against the PDCA in 1997/98-2008/09.
Table 1:
The Government does not hold a full record of claims against the Public Duty Costs Allowance (PDCA) going back to 1991 when the allowance was established. The table above provides information from 2009/10 collated from government data.
From the financial year 2013/14, the annual amount of PDCA claimed by each former Prime Minister has been included in the Cabinet Office Annual Reports and Accounts which is published on GOV.UK. The years that have been published in this way are highlighted in Table 1. Prior to 2013, in line with the approach taken on Parliament’s Office Costs Allowance, to which the PDCA was linked, details of claims made by former Prime Ministers were not published.
I would also refer the noble Lord to a written answer provided on 6 April 2010 by the late Baroness Jowell, then Minister for the Cabinet Office (reference 311222) which provides details of total annual claims made against the PDCA in 1997/98-2008/09.
Table 1:
| The Rt Hon Baroness Margaret Thatcher | The Rt Hon Sir John Major | The Rt Hon Tony Blair | The Rt Hon Gordon Brown | The Rt Hon David Cameron | The Rt Hon Sir Nick Clegg | The Rt Hon Theresa May | Pensions | Total PDCA |
2009-10 | 103,812 | 103,812 | 103,812 |
|
|
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| 10,381 | 321,817 |
2010-11 | 104,133 | 109,125 | 109,191 | 93,698 |
|
|
| 10,912 | 427,059 |
2011-12 | 109,192 | 115,000 | 115,000 | 114,998 |
|
|
| 25,096 | 479,286 |
2012-13 | 70,693 | 114,996 | 115,000 | 100,316 |
|
|
| 15,832 | 385,172 |
2013-14 |
| 114,765 | 115,000 | 101,348 | - | - | - | 76,000 | 407,113 |
2014-15 |
| 115,000 | 115,000 | 112,450 | - | - | - | 115,463 | 226,987 |
2015-16 |
| 115,000 | 115,000 | 114,763 | - | 101,911 | - | 21,435 | 468,109 |
2016-17 |
| 115,000 | 115,000 | 114,838 | 50,227 | 114,982 | - | 28,020 | 538,067 |
2017-18 |
| 115,000 | 115,000 | 114,920 | 111,544 | 115,000 | - | 39,524 | 610,988 |
2018-19 |
| 114,935 | 115,000 | 114,057 | 110,413 | 112,882 | - | 21,425 | 588,712 |
2019-20 |
| 115,000 | 115,000 | 114,802 | 111,457 | - | 34,836 | 11,500 | 502,595 |
2020-21 |
| 115,000 | 115,000 | 113,712 | 113,423 | - | 57,832 | 55,381 | 571,348 |
2021-22 |
| 115,000 | 115,000 | 114,655 | 106,747 | - | 80,083 | 11,500 | 542,985 |
Total | 387,830 | 1,477,633 | 1,478,003 | 1,325,557 | 603,811 | 444,775 | 172,751 | 179,879 | 6070,239 |